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Dong Nguyen: father of Flappy Bird
Ha Dong Nguyen is a 35-year-old video game artist and game developer from Vietnam. He graduated as an engineer in Information Technology. Hanoi University of Technology is a prestigious school that taught many Vietnamese talented engineers.
Nguyen Dong was born in Vietnam in He moved to San Diego, California in In , he moved to Los Angeles in pursuit of an art education and career.
However, Nguyen never had a vision as a world-famous game programmer when he grew up in Van Phuc, a rural village outside of Hanoi known for silk making. While his father owned a hardware store and his mother worked for the government, his family could not afford Game Boys for him or his younger brother.
But finally, they were able to buy a Nintendo, which was only available in the cloned form, like most electronic devices at that time in Vietnam. Nguyen was enchanted at the power to control the character and spent his time playing Super Mario Bros obsessively.
Nguyen had learned to code a computer chess game of his own by 16. Three years later, He was among the top 20 of a programming competition and had an