It has been over 10 years since Flappy Bird was the talk of gaming on mobile phones. Developer Dong Nguyen found a gold mine with the game which starred a pixelated bird that looked as though it stepped out of an 8-bit handheld game. The player controlled the left-to-right flying of Flappy Bird navigating him to avoid numerous pairs of pipes that had the same gap space between them but were placed at random lengths.
To say that the game was a hit would be an understatement. At its peak, Flappy Bird was taking in $50,000 a day from ads and in-app accessory sales, and by January 2014, it was the most downloaded free game in the App Store. Less than two weeks after the game was listed in the Google Play Store, on February 10, 2014, Nguyen pulled the app from all platforms which created a unique situation. …