#Flappy blue bird free

Its popularity and sudden removal caused phones with the game installed before its removal to be put up for sale for high prices over the Internet. During this period, its developer said that Flappy Bird was earning $50,000 a day from in-app advertisements as well as sales.įlappy Bird was removed from both the App Store and Google Play on February 10, 2014, with Nguyen claiming that he felt guilty over what he considered to be the game's addictive nature and overusage.

#Flappy blue bird free

At the end of January 2014, it was the most downloaded free game in the App Store for iOS. Flappy Bird received poor reviews from some critics, who criticized its high level of difficulty and alleged plagiarism in graphics and game mechanics, while other reviewers found it addictive. The game was released in May 2013 but received a sudden spike in popularity in early 2014 and became a sleeper hit. Nguyen created the game over the period of several days, using a bird protagonist that he had designed for a cancelled game in 2012. The game is a side-scroller where the player controls a bird, attempting to fly between columns of green pipes without hitting them.

Flappy Bird is a mobile game developed by the Vietnamese video game artist and programmer Dong Nguyen ( Vietnamese: Nguyễn Hà Đông), under his game development company.