At its core, Flappy Bird is a straightforward recreation. You poke the display screen to make the hen flap. You attempt to not stumble upon the pipes. You see how far you may get earlier than inevitably crashing into stated pipes. But in contrast to Flappy Bird’s gameplay, its history–and lately revealed details about its upcoming reboot–couldn’t be extra difficult, ensuing within the staff behind the sport’s re-release making an official assertion relating to a number of controversies across the recreation.
Sadly, the Flappy Bird Basis’s assertion nonetheless managed to disregard one of many greatest critiques from gamers: the sport’s heavy implementation of cryptocurrency.
The assertion covers quite a lot of matters, from the upcoming Flappy Bird developer’s acquisition of the Flappy Bird trademark to commentary on the studio’s relationship with the creator of Piou Piou Vs Cactus, a cellular recreation that preceded Flappy Bird and impressed a big a part of Flappy Bird’s gameplay.
We’ve seen questions circulating on-line and we’re right here to supply the Flappy Bird neighborhood with all of the solutions.
Let’s clear the air we’re presently flying by ⬇️ pic.twitter.com/fdtjfcZBn6— Flappy Bird (@flappy_bird) September 18, 2024
But the Flappy Bird basis does not even try to handle a number of the recreation’s greatest criticisms, like Flappy Bird chief inventive Mark Roberts’ enthusiastic support for cryptocurrency, Internet 3.0, and blockchain technology–especially because it pertains to Flappy Bird. The Flappy Bird Basis’s assertion additionally fails to say the assorted hidden and now-deleted pages players have uncovered on the new Flappy Bird website, which embrace screenshots that make it clear gamers can join their crypto wallets to the sport, and counsel it is going to be closely monetized by way of cryptocurrency.
Unique Flappy Bird creator Dong Nguyen–who eliminated the sport from app shops shortly after its launch due partly to his considerations over the sport’s “addictive nature“–has confirmed that he hasn’t made a dime from the Flappy Bird Basis’s acquisition of the Flappy Bird IP. He is additionally said that he does not help cryptocurrency in video games.
The Flappy Bird reboot can currently be played on Telegram (although it is unclear if that is the complete, finalized model of the sport), and The Flappy Bird Basis says it has plans to launch the sport on browser and cellular gadgets in 2025. Confusingly, it has additionally said that gamers will get a style of the sport someday close to the top of 2024, however no additional particulars have been shared.