.Gears

DotGears Company Limited
.Gears
Company typePrivate
IndustryVideo games
Founded2005; 19 years ago (2005)
FounderDong Nguyen
Headquarters
Hanoi
,
Vietnam
Key people
Dong Nguyen [vi]
Products
Number of employees
5[1] (2022)
Websitedotgears.com

DotGears Company Limited (trade name: .Gears) is a Vietnamese video game developer based in Hanoi that specialises in mobile games. The company was founded in 2005 by Dong Nguyen,[2][a] and is best known for developing the 2013 game Flappy Bird, which became popular due to its simple mechanics but high difficulty.[4] As of December 2015, the company employs six people, including Nguyen.[4]

After releasing multiple games that copied the Flappy Bird mechanics, .Gears partnered with Japanese developer Obokaidem, which the developer maintained would be .Gears' only partner "for the foreseeable future".[5] In January 2017, the two companies released their first co-developed game, Ninja Spinki Challenges!!, which is nothing like its previous titles and is composed of different mini-games.[6] It uses different mechanics compared to Flappy Bird but is still considered by critics to be equally difficult.[7][8]

  1. ^ "About". .Gears. Archived from the original on 30 December 2022. Retrieved 30 December 2022.
  2. ^ Guinness World Records 2016. Guinness World Records. 10 September 2015. p. 183. ISBN 9781910561034.
  3. ^ "Cha đẻ Flappy Bird: Chỉ làm việc mình giỏi nhất – thiết kế game". Đẹp (in Vietnamese). 19 January 2016. Retrieved 28 August 2018.
  4. ^ a b Statt, Nick (16 December 2015). "The new mobile game from the creator of Flappy Bird will drive you crazy". The Verge. Retrieved 28 August 2018.
  5. ^ Jarvis, Matthew (13 January 2016). "Flappy Bird creator partners with Obokaidem for new game". MCV. Retrieved 28 August 2018.
  6. ^ Gilbert, Ben. "The man behind 'Flappy Bird' is back with a new game". Business Insider. Retrieved 10 November 2022.
  7. ^ Gilbert, Ben (26 January 2017). "The man behind 'Flappy Bird' is back with a new game". Business Insider. Retrieved 28 August 2018.
  8. ^ Musgrave, Shaun (26 January 2017). "'Ninja Spinki Challenges!!', the Latest From the 'Flappy Bird' Creator, is Now Available". TouchArcade. Retrieved 28 August 2018.


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