Template:History of Flappy Bird

Flappy Bird was a 2013 mobile game designed by Dong Nguyen and published by .Gears, his small indie-game developer company based in Vietnam.

The game was released in May 2013 but received a sudden rise in popularity in early 2014 due to the notoriously difficult, yet addicting gameplay. At the end of January 2014, it was the most downloaded free game in the App Store for iOS. During this period, its developer said that Flappy Bird was earning $50,000 a day from in-app advertisements as well as sales.

However, the game was removed from both the App Store and Google Play in February 10, 2014 after a string of controversies, and left behind an unwanted legacy as one of the most cloned games of all time.

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