Want to become rich? Drop your medical studies, and be satisfied to develop games on iOS or Android.
Flappy Bird. name should not be totally unknown to you, not so often you drag your digital gaiters on social networks yet. And this is normal since it is the buzz since the beginning of the week. If one believes the figures available, it would have been downloaded over 50 million times since its launch and it would bring to the developer, on average, $ 50 000 each day through integrated advertising.
Yes, $ 50 per day ... 000. For comparison, the average salary for a single Paris is 2061 euros per month, against 1,608 euros per month for a person living in Seine Saint Denis. Which gives 24 732 euros over the year for the first case and 19 296 euros for the second.
In one day, our developer and earns between two and three times more money than the average worker in a year.
How to explain the success of Flappy Bird?
Well, it is not obvious. If you have not had the opportunity to test it, you can take the time to explain its operation in a few lines. The only thing the player must do is to spend a little bird between pipes. It could not be simpler, right? Yes, but the title is a bit more complicated as you might think. For indeed, to cross various obstacles that stand in the way of your virtual piaf, you must change its altitude by tapping more or less quickly on your screen.
Result: pass the first pipe is almost a miracle . Flappy Bird is very difficult, very annoying and this is perhaps what explains its success. Nobody likes to fail.
Also note that the concept is not new. CEC launched a title that looks like two drops of water ... Flappy Bird in 2011, and therefore some years before it makes its appearance on the AppStore and Play Store. If you want to see what it is, the better it is to visit this page: http://www.zanorg.com/prodperso/pioupiou.html .
Good to go, I go back. My record? Three pipes. And you?