Dong Nguyen made waves at the weekend after announcing Flappy Bird would be removed from the App Store. In an interview with the Wall Street Journal, Nguyen explains his — unorthodox — reasoning.
“That was the main negative. So I decided to take it down,” he said.
Although most developers usually dedicate more time to a title that becomes a smash-hit, Nguyen decided the game was too addicting to keep it on sale. Dong says he is ‘uncomfortable’ with the attention the game has brought him and is hoping to return to normality soon. He is unsure if he will return to his day job as a firmware engineer.
For the future, Dong says that he now has the freedom to create more games.
