In fact, "Flappy Bird" creator Dong Nguyen once told us he believed that most of his players were school children.
The success of the app appears to have sent Flappy Bird creator Dong Nguyen into a depression, and he now longs for his old "simple life".
Back in February, Flappy Bird developer Dong Nguyen pulled his game from the store, citing his guilt for making what he considered an "addictive product".
Earlier this week, "Flappy Bird" creator Dong Nguyen released the sequel to his insanely popular, but frustrating game, which had once led to dozens upon dozens clones from developers hoping to cash in on the trend.
("Flappy Bird" creator Dong Nguyen, if you'll recall, famously admitted he felt "guilty" about the addictive nature of his game, which he cited as one of the reasons he took the game down from the iTunes App Store earlier this year).
Flappy Bird creator Dong Nguyen may have pulled down his simple but maddening mobile game from the App Store and Google Play on Sunday, but that hasn't stopped the swelling interest in the success of the seemingly impossible little app – success which, apparently, became too overwhelming for Nguyen to handle.
Unlike Flappy Bird creator Dong Nguyen, however, whoever was responsible for this game at Google probably won't have an apparent existential crisis, pull the software, go into hiding in Vietnam and return later with sequels that have nowhere near the viral potential of the original.
Noncoding ESTs have also been shown to be differentially regulated (up- or downregulated) in the brain in response to a behavioral stimulus, bird song (Dong et al. 2009).
Perhaps that's why Flappy Bird's creator Dong Nguyen tweeted "I will take 'Flappy Bird' down.
Flappy Bird's developer, Dong Nguyen of Vietnam, suggested that the many pressures of success had become overwhelming.
UAI has had more than 8 years of use of the FLAPPY mark for computer games, 7 years exclusively before the FLAPPY BIRD game by Dong Nguyen and the explosion of other confusingly similar and/or deliberate knock-offs.
