Flappy Bird creator plans for resurrection of hit game

THE creator of the obsessive mobile game Flappy Bird says he’s willing to bring his game back to the app store on one condition. What is it?

Rise again ... Flappy Bird creator Dong Nguyen says he’s thinking of letting his bird fly

THE creator of Flappy Bird, who turned his back on the viral hit cash cow, says he is willing to relaunch his game on one condition: Play it but read a warning first.

In an interview with Rolling Stone magazine, Vietnamese game creator Dong Nguyen says one of the reasons he closed down the game that was reportedly earning him $50,000 a day was that he had his own addictive past with video games.

When he was a high school student in Hanoi, Nguyen said he fought an addiction to the first-person shooter game Counter Strike.

Then when the success of the game had paparazzi turning up at the home of his parents, he decided to pull the plug.

“I’m master of my own fate,” he told Rolling Stone magazine.

In the wake of Nguyen’s decision to remove his game from the app store, there has been a new industry emerge in Flappy Bird clones.

Each day, 60 Flappy Bird copycats lob into the Apple iOS app store hoping to cash in on the addiction that made the frustrating Flappy Bird the game everyone hated as they loved to play.

Nguyen told Rolling Stone he is thinking about bringing the original Flappy Bird back to the app store.

Not that he plans to make the frustrating game any less frustrating or any more easier to play.

He’s just planning to make one addition. He wants to add a warning to the game. “Please take a break”.