DotGears Company Limited (

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: .Gears) is a Vietnamese

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based in

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that specialises in hypercasual

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s. The company was founded in 2005 by Dong Nguyen, and is best known for developing the 2013 game ''

Flappy Bird ''Flappy Bird'' is a 2013 casual mobile game developed by Vietnamese video game artist and programmer Dong Nguyen (), under his game development company .Gears. The game is a side-scroller where the player controls a bird, Faby, attempting t ...

'', which became popular due to its simple mechanics but high difficulty. As of December 2015, the company employs six people, including Nguyen. 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". 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. It uses different mechanics compared to ''Flappy Bird'' but is still considered by critics to be equally difficult.

Games developed

* ''Ninjas Assault'' * ''Shuriken Block'' (2013) * ''Droplet Shuffle'' (2013) * ''Smashing Kitty'' * ''

'' (2013) * ''Super Ball Juggling'' * ''Flappy Birds Family'' (2014) * '' Swing Copters'' (2014) * ''Swing Copters 2'' (2015) * ''Fabitalk'' (2015) * ''Ninja Spinki Challenges!!'' (2017) * ''BOOP'' (2022)

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* {{Official website, https://dotgears.com/ Companies based in Hanoi Video game companies established in 2005 Video game companies of Vietnam Video game development companies Vietnamese companies established in 2005