Flappy Bird to spread wings once more

Like a Phoenix rising from the ashes, Flappy Bird could soon spread its wings of doom once more.Dong Nguyen, the creator of the runaway smash hit game, was asked by a fan on Twitter last Wednesday if he has plans to bring the game back. The 29-year-old Vietnamese game designer replied; "Yes. But not soon."An exact date for its return has yet to be revealed but reasons why he decided to bring it back to the app stores is a bit more obvious. Nguyen reportedly earns over $50,000 daily from the in-game advertisements on Flappy Bird and is apparently still making money after taking it down in February.Its return may fuel criticism in the coming days whether Nguyen was really an indie game maker overrun by success or behind an ingenious marketing ploy to help Flappy Bird get more downloads from the curious public.At the time, Nguyen said he wanted it to be pulled out because it was “too addictive,” saying that it “ruins my simple life. So now I hate it.”One influential US-based blogger Robert Scoble was unconvinced, calling Nguyen a “genius” for releasing a game that “makes you enough in a week to survive several years without a salary. Then tell everyone you are deleting that game.”“Everyone will buy that new game, making [Nguyen] even richer, because of the fear that he’ll delete that game,” Scoble wrote on Facebook.It’s hard to say if Flappy Bird will once again return to the top of the Apple and Android app stores. But considering the demand for Flappy Bird clones, the original may have some fight left in it.