Dong Nguyen, creator of the infamous mobile game Flappy Bird, talked a bit at GameLab about the inspirations that led to Flappy Bird, its success and its many dimestore imitators.
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The game where you tap the screen to make a bird avoid some pipes didn't quite start out that way. "Flappy Bird is totally different than the original idea. I just improved it every time I played the game and then I had the final product," Ngyuen says.
The games' difficulty was actually a bit of a draw for young kids, according to Nguyen, according to its rebellious exclusion of adults. "It seems that because of the intense difficulty of the game it is something only young teens can like," he said.
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For young up-and-comers he has typically down to earth advice: "You have to have a good job and make the game in your spare time," he said. Flappy Bird "is a dangerous [precedent] because what I did was like magic, it was unexpected. If a lot of people tried to do that again I think they would fail."
If Simpsons World were already online, I'd post a Nelson Muntz "haw haw" here.
