Flappy Bird

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Flappy Bird
Studio .Gears Studios
Publisher .Gears Studios
Senior Developer Dong Nguyen
Erstveröffent-
lichung		 May 23, 2013
platform Android , iOS
genre Jump 'n' run
Game mode Single player
control Touch screen
medium Download
language English
Current version v1.3 (discontinued)

Flappy Bird is an app from the Vietnamese developer Dong Nguyen from 2013. It was published by .Gears Studios . The app was originally developed in May 2013 for Android and for the Apple iPhone 5 , later for iOS 6 and then in September 2013 for iOS 7 .

On February 8, 2014, Nguyen announced on Twitter that he would remove the application from the app stores. He later gave the reason in an interview. He said the game was addictive, which runs counter to his real purpose of making Flappy Bird a casual game. On February 9, 2014, the app was removed from both the Google Play Store and the Apple App Store without comment.

The success of the game has been widely reported in the media, as has the developer's move to discontinue it. In the weeks that followed, interest in the game fell sharply.

Gameplay

Variant Flappy 3D

The graphic design of Flappy Bird is similar to the graphics of Super Mario World and is comparatively simple. By tapping on the screen, the player guides a bird through a game world that scrolls from right to left, whereby the bird must not touch the pairs of green tubes protruding into the picture from above and below, but must fly through between them. The position of the flight path varies. Every time the bird flies between a pair of pipes, it collects a point. This process is automatically canceled if the bird touches one of the pipes. He is then directed to an intermediate menu , where the player can choose to share the score achieved via social networks or be returned to the main menu.

reception

Reviews

The app has been criticized by the Huffington Post as "excruciatingly confusing, difficult and frustrating game with boring graphics and poor controls".

Jenifer Whiteside from Amongtech.com gave a more positive rating , who trusts the app to outperform the game Candy Crush Saga as the most famous mobile video game of 2014 due to the addiction potential and the hype surrounding the app .

The level of difficulty of the game is a point of criticism for many users. The developer adds that the app is easier to play on Android than the iOS version.

Commercial win

In January 2014, the app topped the iTunes store charts for free apps in the US and China , and later that month the UK iTunes Store. At the end of January, the app was the most downloaded app .

According to the programmer, the game brought in up to 50,000 dollars a day through advertising, so-called "in-app advertising".

Clones

Especially after the app was discontinued on February 9, 2014, hundreds of Flappy Bird- like apps were released. One of the most successful of these is Splashy Fish , which for some time was number 1 on the free apps charts in the Apple App Store. In the first 24 hours since the removal, about a third of all 300 uploaded games were Flappy Bird clones on this marketplace. Almost a month later, from February 28 to March 3, 240 plagiarism appeared there - this corresponded to an app similar to Flappy Bird every 24 minutes. There were also quite a few clones in the Google Play Store, but search queries are limited to 250 hits, so exact numbers are unknown. Due to the sheer mass of such apps, stricter app control was required. Apple went so far that no other app that featured Flappy in its name was put on the store.

Attitude and controversy

On February 8, 2014, Nguyen tweeted on the social network Twitter that he was planning to discontinue the app:

“I'm sorry, Flappy Bird user, I'll be hiring Flappy Bird in 22 hours. I can't take all of this anymore. "

He added that the app's suspension had "nothing to do with litigation". On February 9, 2014, as announced, the application was removed from the Google Play Store and the Apple App Store without comment.

Occasionally, the developer is accused of having used programs or the like to make the app so popular in early 2014 . When the Daily Telegraph asked this as a question, Nguyen replied:

“I respect all of these opinions. I will not comment further on this. I like to play my games in peace. "

When Newsweek brought up the topic, Nguyen tweeted that it "didn't matter," adding that Apple would have removed the game from the store long ago if it had falsified usage statistics.

The video game was also commented on by Kotaku because of the use of "Mario artifacts" as "copied art".

Flappy Bird was discontinued on February 9, 2014 by developer Dong Nguyen. However, this does not affect usage. As long as the app is installed on the device, it can still be used.

Cell phones with the preinstalled app were offered on eBay for four-digit euro amounts; possibly, however, it was speculated that there was a mix-up between sending a price proposal and buying it now .

After the game disappeared from the Google and Apple app stores, its developer commented on the reasons: Originally, he wanted to develop a game that would ensure a relaxed pastime, but was forced to remove it as it was addictive . Nguyen also cited the attention to his person associated with the success as the reason.

The app can still be downloaded from external sources as an IPA file (iOS) and APK file (Android).

In May 2014, the developer announced in an interview that Flappy Bird would appear again in August 2014. The new version of the application should offer a multiplayer mode and be "less addicting". Said application was released in August 2014 under the name Flappy Bird Family exclusively for the Amazon Fire TV.

Web links

Individual evidence

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