Comment on Flappy Bird’s original creator says he has nothing to do with the new game
themeatbridge@lemmy.world 2 months ago
The game mechanic is incredibly simple, and has been cloned a million times. The graphics weren’t anything special, so really the only thing special about Flappy Bird is the name Flappy Bird.
QuadratureSurfer@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Flappy Bird wasn’t the first to even implement a game like this.
I remember playing a very similar game with a helicopter and another one with a worm long before that app released for phones.
Flappy Bird is just the game of this type that ended up going viral in its time.
PixelTron@lemm.ee 2 months ago
I played the helicopter one as a flash web game when I was back in school some 20-25 years ago! Was one of the earliest simple time waster games (in a good sense) that I can remember being really addictive, the whole class would end up playing it in computer lessons until it got banned.
themeatbridge@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Good point.