You certainly don’t need to be a hardcore gamer to know about Flappy Bird, the little Vietnamese indie game which went viral and took the world on the bed. It has been a couple of years since its release and the Vietnamese developer dotGEARS have been quiet for quite a while disappearing from the gaming world without almost any traces, except when they released a revised version for Amazon Fire TV, after they removed the game from android and iStore.
It doesn’t need to be said that several developers have tried to contact the man of the hour, Dong Nguyen, for a contract after his Magnum Opus. However, he has rejected all offers upon cooperation, until now.
Last Friday it was made public that dotGEARS will cooperate with the Japanese smart phone game developer OBIKAIDEM on a new project that is scheduled for worldwide release later this year. The title in question is ridden in mystery, eastern mystery to be precise! All that is known about their first co-developed title is that it is a ninja themed game and that it goes under the code name “N Project”. Not much else is said, and with the enigmatic developer Dong Nguyen’s track record in mind, we might not expect too much new information about this mysterious title from the maker of the famous Flappy Bird any time soon.
This revelation has certainly awaken more questions than it has answered: what kind of game will the N project be? Why OBIKAIDEM? Will it be as big a hit as Flappy Bird was? What can almost be certain though, is that the presence of the creator of Flappy Bird on the team, this will be a title that few indie fans are going to miss and is likely to rack in a nice amount of sales on that wave alone.
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