Apropos of nothing Flappy Bird floated across my mind today. It struck me odd how little people seem to refer to it now, given how popular it got. I was reading its Wikipedia page; the game was pulling in $50k USD a day and the dev pulled it because he thought it was too addictive. Or possibly because he didn’t feel like he could defend against the claims that he’d ripped off other games and got in over his head. It’s a fascinating story.
But the game itself I never got into. I tried it once on a friend’s phone and quickly had no more interest in playing it. I’m curious to know from people who played it a lot at the time, was it a good game? Does it hold up? Or was it a relatively generic knock-off that got famous because catapulting random ideas into the global consciousness is just a thing the internet does sometimes?
I miss Flappy Bird, I used to play it, believe me or not I hit 1000 points on that shit, I just got hiper fixated on it, it was so fun. Now I can’t run it on recent Android versions.
Seems to be many versions playable online in your phone browser.
https://flappybird.io/ There’s one that seems functional. I never played the original more than once or twice so idk how accurate it is but it seems to match my memory.
I know, actually Epic Games bought the rights I think, they remade the game.
But just doesn’t feel the same, the original had something different.
I played the one Epic made, it’s the most accurate so far.
https://store.epicgames.com/en-US/p/flappy-bird-android-fdb665
I mean personally I would trust the rando who puts it up for free online more than I would trust epic games to make an accurate version, but like I said I don’t have enough of a memory to accurately judge. I also like that the online one doesn’t have ads or purchases.
Is 1000 points the same as 1000 passes? Where you pass through the opening, is that 1 point? Or do they start getting worth more the longer you play?
One point per pass
Points and passes are the same. 1000 points are equivalent to 1000 passes.