The video game industry is indubitably one of the most biggest generator of revenue of any country having a net worth of approximately $134.9 billion. The world has evolved technology-wise, so much now that gamers are paid insane amounts of money to play games. Where do I sign up, please? There are certain games who have taken the market by surprise and have made their creators stupid rich. Some notable personas are the Houser brothers, the creative minds behind the artistic masterpieces that we know as rockstar games(GTA, Red dead redemption). Markus notch is another game creator who became very successful with the creation Minecraft.
The fact is that these genius minds have without a doubt created transcendent games. Plus, I’m almost certain that at this point they won’t ever have to worry about running out if money anytime soon. However, the nerd of the hour is Flappy bird’s creator “Dong Nyugen”.
Flappy Bird is a single player mobile game developed in ” 28 days” by Vietnamese video game artist and programmer Dong Nguyen, under his own game development company dotGears. Despite the fact that flappy bird had the most basic controls there is, it was very addictive and frustrating. It’s premise is simple. Tap the bird on your device screen to make it float while dodging pipes by maintaining balance and keeping the bird in flight.
Dong Ngyunen garnered a staggering amount of money from in-game advertisements. It succeeded in pulling in a daily sum of $50,000. Although, due to numerous complaints about the addictiveness of the game, the creator felt bad and took it off the Apple and Google store. At the end of January 2014, it was the most downloaded free game in the App Store for iOS. And it is currently the among the top 10 games on the Apple store