iPhone flappy bird game watchers can be "happily be flappy" again after the original developer of the game, Dong Nguyen has decided to put the game back on Apple store.
Initially, there was some skirmish about Apple's rule concerning delisting of names that have been taken down. However, Apple does allow a new developer to make the title his or her own.
We will have to keep a watch on how Dong sorts this out with Apple's gaming bosses.
Developer Dong responded to a question on twitter, "Are you going to put flappy bird back on App Store ?
He said his "game will be returning to Apple's App Store, albeit not right now."
Here's that conversation with his loyal followers on Twitter:
Robert @painfullpacman Mar 18
@dongatory Are u going to put flappy bird back on App Store ?
@painfullpacman Yes. But not soon.
Detailsalb97bxn @alb97bxn 13h
@dongatory @painfullpacman and play store ?
FollowDong Nguyen@dongatory
@alb97bxn @painfullpacman Yes.
Nguyen became popular overnight after his game became the number one online game and a huge success among players of variou age groups.
Flappy Bird was huge on Apple's iOS App Store, at the top of the downloaded games charts. Reports at the time said, Dong was reeling in $50,000 a day. However, he took down the game from the App store and
Google Play market, saying it was too addictive and that it was creating compulsive behaviours among players. He also said that he was suffering from these conditions himself from being too involved with flappy bird.
Most players said it was a tough game and that was the attribute that got online gamers hooked - they wanted to get higher scores.
After Dong pulled down the game, iPhones and other smartphones installed with flappy bird were selling like crab cakes on ebay. Some were on sale as high as $100,000.
But that feverish buying came to a halt after both Apple and Google called clones of the original game spam, citing that they were mimicking a game that was already plaid on their stores.
In an interview with a Rolling Stone, Dong said he would consider putting his infamous game back on the market. However, in a tweet Dong Nguyen responded affirmatively that he was coming back to his gaming business, despite the attention and all the negative name calling for the obtrusive game.
In his initial interview with Forbes, Dong said the game would be hung up forever. "Flappy Bird was designed to play in a few minutes when you are relaxed," he said, adding, "But it happened to become an addictive product. I think it has become a problem. To solve that problem, it's best to take down Flappy Bird. It's gone forever."
"Well, apparently not forever," says Forbes contributor Erik Kain.
"Unlike other successful game makers such as Rovio Entertainment, which produced the hugely popular Angry Birds game and has hundreds of programmers, Dong made Flappy Bird by himself in a few nights, he said on Twitter earlier", reports IBNLive.
