Dong Nguyen, Flappy Bird creator, tells all to Rolling Stone
Few games or creators have ever managed to upset the status quo in the way Flappy Bird and Dong Nguyen did. The game skyrocketed to #1 with zero marketing, earned its creator hundreds of thousands of dollars, and disappeared from the App Store due to a sense of ethics and responsibility; the game was simply too addictive, its creator said.Asides from a few tweets and a whole lot of speculation, though, we've had little to go in in terms of what really happened with Flappy Bird - or to its creator Dong Nguyen. But now, thanks to an interview with Rolling Stone's Peter Travers, we have the whole story."If you have even the slightest bit of interest in the phenomenon that was Flappy Bird, you owe it to yourself to check out the whole article. That said, here are a few highlights of what we learned;
