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Unique concept? It was a clone of “Helicopter Game” that was from like 1990
Everything is derivative
Even me?
Git fork your-parents
This guy forks.
Not again!
At its height Nguyen was making $50,000.00 a day from ads in the game. Whew.
Wait I still have it and I don’t remember ever seeing add. When news of recall came out I wondered how he got that rich. Now I’m wondering how I fell trough that crack and missed adds era
I remember when the game was pulled from the stores. Some assholes were selling their devices with flappy bird still installed for insane amounts of money.
Why is that being an asshole?
Because if you wanted the game that badly you could just get an $15 android and sideload it instead of buying a $100+ phone for $1000+
Sure, it is as easy as you’re saying. So what’s wrong with someone selling a device that is already configured with the game to people who don’t want to spend the effort to do it themselves? At the end of the day, people spent money that they felt was worthwhile to get a game that they enjoy. It’s the same as people selling Batocera cards on Ebay nowadays.
Because they are taking advantage of technology stupid people.
The game is still up in some torrents and websites. Selling old ass phones the same as a new flagship just because it has a program in it that is still available in the internet is just retarded.
Demand and supply. People wanted to play the game and paid a lot to do it. Nothing weird about that.
I was coding Indie games when it came out. The number of clones in the community was just disgusting. There was even more than one Flappy Game Jam. If Flappy Bird can be credited with one thing, it’s that it made a whole bunch of inept coders think that they too could get rich by making super simple mobile games.
To be fair, a bunch of them did.
Ever heard of the app “I am Rich”?
It was a piece of crap anyway that had been done before in crappy flash games that predate the iPhone itself.
You’re not wrong, but it was also kind of a cultural moment and it’s weird that it was disappeared entirely. Most games like that have long tails of focus creep, neglect, crapware, or irrelevance, but Flappy Bird went out with a pop.
Because it should have NEVER BEEN a pop in the first place. It didn’t go anywhere because OP correctly points out, it was done long before. The fact that it went anywhere in the first place is just a testament to humanities mob mentality. We are very easily swayed.
“Not completely novel” doesn’t mean something is crap.
It was literally a stolen concept with a mashup of stolen graphics
Is it possible to install this game on iOS yet?
I know in Android we can just sideload the app…
Shame the dev committed suicide because of so much hate from his game.
Yeah, he didn’t.
What a wild thing to pull out of your ass
The Dong lives
