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Re:Why Do Fads Fade? The Inevitable Death Of Flappy Bird by jrs95 on Friday December 08, 2017 @08:19AM (#15878441)
Didn’t Flappy Bird die because it was pulled from app stores?
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Re:Why Do Fads Fade? The Inevitable Death Of Flappy Bird by rando444 on Friday December 08, 2017 @08:36AM (#15878508)
The author decided he preferred peace and quiet over leaving flappy bird in the app store.

http://uk.businessinsider.com/why-flappy-birds-shut-down-201...

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Re:Why Do Fads Fade? The Inevitable Death Of Flappy Bird by SyneRyder on Friday December 08, 2017 @08:57AM (#15878614)
Dong Nguyen kept making games, though. His company is called .GEARS, and the successor is Swing Copters:

http://www.dotgears.com/

https://play.google.com/store/apps/developer?id=DOTGEARS

He also made Ninja Spinki Challenges, which I really enjoyed for a while and has some really cute graphics:

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.dotgears.n...

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Re:Why Do Fads Fade? The Inevitable Death Of Flappy Bird by randlet on Friday December 08, 2017 @10:26AM (#15879267)
> Swing Copters

This appears to just be Flappy Bird rotated 90deg [1]. Pretty funny!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wuoCeze0B3c

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Re:Why Do Fads Fade? The Inevitable Death Of Flappy Bird by watwut on Friday December 08, 2017 @08:40AM (#15878524)
Yes. The dude got harassed more then he cared for. Which is quite sad if you think about it.
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Re:Why Do Fads Fade? The Inevitable Death Of Flappy Bird by Kiro on Friday December 08, 2017 @11:44AM (#15879967)
Yes, which is mentioned several times throughout the article but I take it you didn't even click the link.
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