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Dong Nguyen
Dong Nguyen is a game developer, he is Vietnamese. He's best known as the creator of popular game - Flappy Bird, which eventually rooted to countless more games after its deletion in 2014. He works for the company, .GEARS (dotGears) studios, which specializes in creating simple retro pixelated games rather than the more complex ones seen today.
Recently, he has been developing another game, a follow up of his previous game i.e. Flappy Bird. And it said that the game will be available in the market i.e. Apple store, on Thursday - 21st August 2014. The name of his newest game is Swift Copters. People playing Swing Copters 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.
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.
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