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Flappy Bird creator set to release follow-up game

LONDON — Mr Dong Nguyen, the creator of Flappy Bird, will release a follow-up to his smash-hit game later this week.

LONDON — Mr Dong Nguyen, the creator of Flappy Bird, will release a follow-up to his smash-hit game later this week.

Swing Copters will be available to download from Apple’s App Store from tomorrow. The app will be free, with a subsequent charge to remove advertisements.

Similar to Flappy Bird, which was downloaded more than 50 million times, those playing Swing Copters would have to tap the screen to make a man wearing a “propeller hat” move left and right. The hero must dodge giant hammers and navigate ledges as he flies upwards, with a point scored for every obstacle he avoids.

Whether Mr Nguyen, a 28-year-old Vietnam-based developer, hopes Swing Copters will be as big a hit as Flappy Bird is debatable.

His first 2D side-scrolling game, in which the player must control a flying bird without hitting pipes, was released on May 24 last year and quickly became a hit. It became the most downloaded free game in the App Store by the end of January this year.

A month later, Mr Nguyen pulled Flappy Bird from the online store, claiming its popularity had “ruined my simple life”. He tweeted: “I’m sorry Flappy Bird users, 22 hours from now, I will take Flappy Bird down. I cannot take this any more.”

He reportedly received death threats and several similar games were created in a bid to cash in on Flappy Bird’s popularity. At one point in March, around a third of new apps uploaded to Apple’s App Store were Flappy Bird clones.

Mr Nguyen released a new version, Flappy Birds Family, earlier this month exclusively on Android’s app store. THE daily TELEGRAPH

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