While game companies are spending millions developing and marketing addictive mobile games, every once in a while an indie hit appears out of nowhere and captures the publics imagination. In 2013, that game was Flappy Bird, a notoriously difficult endless runner-style game that thrust its Vietnamese creator, Dong Nguyen, into an unwanted spotlight.
Nguyen ended up pulling the game from Apple and Googles app stores a few months later (despite making a ton of money), because it had b…Read more