flappy bird caused a sensation after rising from obscurity to become one of the most downloaded mobile games on both apple and google 's online stores .
i can not take this anymore .
fans of the ' flappy bird ' app are threatening to kill its creator or themselves now hanoithe developer of flappy bird , the former most popular free mobile game on the apple inc app store and google inc 's android play store , took the game down at midnight on sunday as he announced he would do 22 hours earlier .
creator dong nguyen officially pulled the app from apple 's app store and android 's google play platform , saying he could no longer handle the pressure and stress following its instant success .
 
 
the game is no longer available to download for either apple or google users , but its fans still can have fun with the bird if they already downloaded the game to their devices .
— dong nguyen ( @dongatory ) february 8 , 2014 press people are overrating the success of my games .
many people have been questioning dong on twitter about his decision to take down the game as only a day earlier he had been talking about developing the game for microsoft 's windows phones .