Flappy Bird is a mobile phone game developed by Vietnamese video game artist and programmer Dong Nguyen (Nguy? n HÃÆ'? ÃÆ''ng), under the development company of dotGEARS games. This game is a side roller where the player controls a bird, trying to fly between the green pipe columns without hitting it. Nguyen created the game for a few days, using the bird protagonist he designed for a canceled game in 2012.
The game was released in May 2013 but suddenly increased in popularity in early 2014. Flappy Bird received poor reviews from some critics, who criticized for its difficulty level, plagiarism in graphics and game mechanics, while other reviewers found it addictive. At the end of January 2014, this is the most downloaded free game on the App Store for iOS. During this period, the developer said that Flappy Bird earned $ 50,000 per day from in-app ads and sales.
Flappy Bird has been removed from the App Store and Google Play by its creator on February 10, 2014, feeling guilty for what he considers to be addictive and redundant. The popularity of the game and the sudden removal of causing pre-installed phones should be put up for sale at high prices via the Internet. Games similar to Flappy Bird became popular on the iTunes App Store after its deletion, and Apple and Google have removed the games from their app store because they are too similar to the original. The game has also been distributed through unofficial channels on various platforms.
In August 2014, a revised version of Flappy Bird , called Flappy Birds Family , was released exclusively for Amazon Fire TV. Bay Tek Games also released the arcade arcade game Flappy Bird licensed coins.
Video Flappy Bird
Gameplay
Flappy Bird is a side-scrolling mobile game featuring 2D retro style graphics. The goal is to direct the flying bird, named "Faby", which moves steadily to the right, between sets of pipes similar to Mario. If players touch the pipes, they lose. Faby briefly flaps up whenever player taps on the screen; if the screen is not tapped, Faby falls due to gravity; each pair of pipes he navigates between getting a player a point, with medals awarded for scores at the end of the game. No medals were awarded for a score of less than ten. Bronze medals are awarded for scores between ten and twenty. To receive a silver medal, the player must reach 20 points. Gold medals are awarded to those who score more than thirty points. Players who achieve forty or higher scores receive a platinum medal. Android devices allow access of the world's leaderboards, via Google Play.
There is no variation or evolution in the game throughout the game, because the pipes always have the same gap between them and no end on the running track, just have a flap and a ding sound and the score goes up as a reward.
Maps Flappy Bird
Development
Dong Nguyen raised in V? N PhÃÆ'ºc, a village near Hanoi. He found a video game by playing Super Mario Bros. as a child, and started making his own code at the age of 16. At the age of 19, while studying programming at a local university, he won an internship at Punch Entertainment, one of several video game companies in Vietnam. While using the iPhone, he discovers that his most popular games like Angry Birds are too complicated, and want to create a simpler game for "always moving" people.
Flappy Bird was created and developed by Nguyen in two to three days. The bird character, Faby, was originally designed in 2012 for a canceled platform game. Gameplay is inspired by the action of bouncing the ping pong ball against the oars as long as possible. Initially the game was significantly easier than being in the final version, but Nguyen said he found this version to be boring and then tightened up the difficulty. He described the free business plan download with in-game ads as "very common in the Japanese market".
Nguyen believes that contemporary Western play is too complicated. His company, dotGEARS, described his game as "heavily influenced by the pixelated retro games in his golden age - all pure, very difficult and very fun to play".
Release
Flappy Bird was originally released on May 24, 2013, with support for iPhone 5. The game was later updated to iOS 7 in September 2013. In January 2014, it topped the Free App chart in the US. and the China Application Store, and later that month occupied the same section in the UK App Store which was touted as the new "Angry Birds". It ends in January as the most downloaded App in the App Store. The Android version of Flappy Bird was released to the Google Play store on January 30, 2014. In early 2014, Nguyen said in an interview with The Verge that the game generated around $ 50,000 per day through in-game ads.
Termination
On February 8, 2014, Nguyen announced on Twitter that the game would be removed from the Apple App Store and Google Play, wrote: "I'm sorry for 'Flappy Bird' users, 22 hours from now, I'll take 'Flappy Bird' I can not take this again. "He went on to say that noting the game has" nothing to do with legal issues ". This game was removed from the Apple App Store and Google Play on time, much to the dismay of many fans.
Tuoi Tre News , an English-language newspaper in Vietnam, reported from a local technology expert that the removal of Flappy Bird ' may occur due to Nintendo's legal challenge over perceived visual similarity for the game Mario . This allegation was rejected by a Nintendo spokesman for The Wall Street Journal. Lawyers in Vietnam also denied allegations that Nguyen should remove the game for violating a new law on internet usage in the country.
After removal, many media reported that some merchants on eBay offer phones that have pre-installed applications for US $ 1,499 or more, with some receiving bids in excess of $ 90,000; However, the list was removed for violating eBay rules stating that the smartphone should be returned to factory settings before being sold.
In an interview with Forbes, Nguyen quoted the game's addiction nature to his cancellation, stating: " Flappy Bird is designed to play in minutes as you relax, but it just happens to be an addictive product. I think it has been a problem To overcome that problem, it is best to drop Flower Bird. "It's gone forever." Nguyen said that the guilt he felt during the game affected his sleep, and that his conscience was relieved after he dropped the game.
In a March 2014 interview with Rolling Stone , Nguyen refused to refuse to reissue Flappy Bird , provided that it would come with a warning for "Rest". On March 19, he announced via Twitter that the game will be relaunched to App Stores, but not in the near future. On May 15, Nguyen told CNBC Kelly Evans that the match will return in August, with multi-player capabilities and will be "less addictive".
As promised by Nguyen, August 2014 saw a revised version of Flappy Bird , called Flappy Birds Family , released exclusively through Amazon Appstore for the Amazon Fire TV platform. This new version also features new obstacles that do not exist in the original as well as additional multiplayer options.
Legacy
The deletion has given birth to remake and game parody, such as Sesame Street Flappy Bert and Fall Out Boy's
Shortly after the removal of the game, security researchers warned that several versions of Flappy Bird and its imitators available in alternative Android app stores have been found to contain malware that could cause unauthorized charges to users' phone bills. The matching number game Threes has been compared to Flappy Bird because of the similarity between how people react to them and by the clone chain that they both part of.
In February 2014, the non-profit computer science education organization Code.org launched a series of lessons that allowed students to create their own Flappy Bird clones.
Other games of Nguyen Super Ball Juggling and Shuriken Block are ranked 6 and 18 respectively in the App Store during early February 2014 behind Flappy Bird Success . He revealed in March 2014 that he was developing three other games, in a format similar to the previous release.
The Easter Egg on Android Lollipop (version 5.0/5.1) allows users to play a modified version of Flappy Bird , titled "L Land", which involves Android and Lollipops replacing the pipeline. It was revamped on Android Marshmallow (version 6.0) as "Marshmallow Land", adding multiplayer support for up to 6 players.
On New Year's Eve in 2014, Google displays an animated Google Doodle featuring Flappy Bird as one of the most searched phenomena of the year, alongside the World Cup, Ice Bucket Challenge, and the Philae spacecraft. A similar game featuring Talking Tom was released as a mini-game for My Talking Tom, called Flappy Tom, and the same game featured in Talking Tom and Friends.
Reception
Flappy Bird received "mixed or average" reviews from critics, holds a Metacritic 52/100 score, based on seven reviews. This app was criticized by the Huffington Post , which described it as "a very frustrating, difficult and frustrating game that combines a super-steep difficulty curve with bad graphics, boring, and jerking motions." IGN gave the game a mediocre score of 5.4 out of 10, ranting that the game was as addictive as superficial. Despite criticism of his screening and "unskillful" requirements, IGN notes that the game makes it an "addictive short-term disorder" for casual skills and player obsessed with scores. The difficulty of the game has been a source of anger for many users, with one user stating that it took half an hour to reach a five-point score. According to the creator, this game is a bit easier on Android devices than on iOS.
Nolan Bushnell, video game creator Pong , compares Flappy Bird with his own game by claiming that "simple games are more satisfying". John Romero, co-creator of the classic first-person shooter Doom , commented that Flappy Bird was "a reaction to the prevailing design like grunge is a reaction to metal."
Controversy and criticism
When asked at the time by Chocolate Lab Apps, a website for app developers, Nguyen admitted to not using promotional methods in marketing Flappy Bird. He praised the sudden rise in game popularity in early 2014 to "luck". However, online marketer Carter Thomas suspects that developers have used bots to cause success. When asked about this by The Daily Telegraph, Nguyen said that he respected the opinions of others and did not want to comment, adding "I want to make my game in peace." When Newsweek > asked about this problem, Nguyen said "If I fake him, Apple should let him live for months."
This game was criticized by Kotaku for what it claimed to be an open use of Mario -style graphics, referring to it as "ripped-off art". It then publishes the correction, clarifying that the game's green pipes are "new though unoriginal images".
According to several Vietnamese newspapers, including Thanh NiÃÆ'ªn and BBC Vietnam, Flappy Bird are very similar to games released in 2011 (two years before Flappy Bird >) calls Piou Piou vs. Cactus , from the game plot (by tapping the screen) to the main character design (small yellow with large red beak) to the obstacle (green cactus and pipe). It was reported that some French newspapers such as 20 Minutes and Metronews accused Flappy Bird to be cloned. Reporter from Thanh NiÃÆ'nn Online trying to play Piou Piou vs. Cactus and confirms that the similarities between the two games are astounding.
French developer Piou Piou vs. Cactus , known as Kek, told Pocket Gamer that he also noticed that Flappy Bird "was very similar" to the previous game, but when he contacted Nguyen about it, Nguyen claimed that he do not know anything. Technology editor Patrick O'Rourke of Canada.com also alleges that Flappy Bird is "almost completely ripoff" from Piou Piou vs Cactus , and the main game mechanic is "ripping" from a game called Helicopter Game , and it strongly borrows sound effects from Super Mario Bros. .
References
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