Dong Nguyen won't even reveal his face in public
Dong Nguyen won’t even reveal his face in public

The creator of Flappy Bird has explained why he removed the game from app stores, claiming he was worried it’d become an ‘addictive product’.

The creator of mobile sensation Flappy Bird has given no hope to fans that the game will ever return, insisting that ‘it’s gone forever’.

‘Flappy Bird was designed to play in a few minutes when you are relaxed,’ Nguyen told Forbes. ‘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.’

This is despite the game reportedly earning Nguyen $50,000 a day in advertising, although he refused to say whether that figure was accurate – just that it was ‘a lot’.

He did deny though that Nintendo had threatened to sue him, despite the pipe graphics from the game clearly being the same as Super Mario World.

Forbes is the only outlet to have spoken to him since the game was taken down, and the interview was conducted in strict secrey. Which is understandable given fans threatened to kill both him and thesmelves over the removal of the game.

Nguyen has warned he’ll also remove his other games Super Ball Juggling and Shuriken Block if he thinks people are becoming too addicted, but he currently described the games – which have also become sizeable hits – as ‘harmless’.

But despite Flappy Bird being gone for ever there are already a mountain of clones and copycats on both the iOS and Android app stores, the most popular of which you can find out about here.

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