The story of the Flappy Bird

Thinking about things from my middle

school in early high school days as the

2010s are coming to a close I'm looking

back at trends from earlier in the

decade such as silly bands nyan cat the

horrendous Harlem shake a thing that's

Background

been vegan my interest as of late has

been early 2010 mobile games but most

specifically one game in particular I

present to you all

haunting ghost from your past and that

is the hit 2014 lowa sensation known as

flappy bird for the 0.1% of you who

don't remember this game the objective

of the game is to have the character

officially known as fabbi to move

continuously to the right for as long as

you can be avoiding pipes and tackling

with the laws of gravity simple enough

right whoa it's more challenging than it

looks and perhaps that's what made the

game so popular for the first year of

the apps short life the game was

shrouded in an essence of obscurity it

was released in May of 2013 and didn't

gain popularity until February of 2014

the reason for this is likely due to a

variety of factors but I've pinned it

down to three reasons for one the game

is competent it's short and simple andgets straight to the point

much like other successful mobile games

of the early to mid 2010 such as fruit

ninja and Angry Birds

the game isnt complex the game being

Controversy

free itself is also another factor for

its success alongside with the fact that

it was easily shareable sharing your

score and flappy bird back in 2014 it

was basically a way of declaring how

much better you were than the other guy

only man should get like six pipes while

you the true alpha male in the classroom

were able to get through twenty-one

hyperbole aside this game came out

during my freshman year of high school

and my fanon sweaty 40 old self bit into

the hype however instead of playing this

on my phone I used my iPad instead with

just me the overall experience extremely

pixelated anybody else do that the

controversy with flappy bird however

comes with a creator Don nuyen nuyen a

native of Vietnam found games such as

Angry Birds too complicated for mobile

devices he wanted to create a game in

which the player was always on the move

he had hoped to make at least a couple

hundred dollars when he released the

game but its first two months on the App

Store market revealed it to be a dud atfirst but then over a short period of

time

the game became viral with over 50

million downloads by March of 2014 and

revenue for nuyen exceeding over

$50,000

a day nuyen had achieved his objective

the newfound fame came at a high cost

at

the time not much was known about new

yet even today a lot about the guy

shrouded in mystery according to the

Rolling Stone aside from the occasional

Nintendo Kotaku even brought a

collective ad article titled flappy bird

is making $50,000 a day off ripped off

art accusing knew you know stealing the

pipes and designs from Super Mario now

can't flat-out say everything about

flappy bird is a ripoff but I can say

that the similarities are awfully

striking however it's obvious of the

game heavily borrowed from Moorish

designs so Kotaku pointing that out

didnt really add any new insight

whatsoever other claims of fraud on the

other hand seemed more credible may l

introduce you all a game released inthe name kick notice said similarities

between his Taito and flappy bird

he contacted nuyen and nuyen went on to

state he had no knowledge of pew pew

whatsoever but what if I told you that

the rabbit-hole goes deeper than that

and that people have suggested that pew

pew is actually a potential ripoff of

another game titled the helicopter game

look at this

Comparison

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okay it's nothing too exciting but it's

a note flash game so don't be too harsh

on it honestly I don't see how this

could have inspired PP you as the

controls are also different with the

player having to hold a button let go of

it in order to advance the helicoper

through various what are theyre

supposed to be floating great in towers

Imean it sure is a side scroller and

the gameplay is also somewhat similar

but I think this comparison is merely

coincidence but between pew pew and

flappy bird there has to be certainly

something about the similarities are too

great no matter what the case was nuyen

retain a successful game for at least a

month that is because nuyen started to

feel a sense of guilt on what his

creation had become letting me explainOn February 8th 2014 nuyen announced

or

Twitter that he would remove flappy bird

lam sorry flappy bird users twenty two

down i cannot take this anymore a lot of

people would kill to have such success

you ungrateful piece of scum you see the

success of flappy bird had taken a toll

on him in an interview with Forbes nuyen

sitted that flappy bird was designed to

play in a few minutes when you are

relaxed but it happened to become an

addictive product I think it has become

a problem to solve that problem it's

best to take down flappy bird it's gone

forever

Newton's consciousness meanwhile was

taken a dramatic toll on him and

affecting his sleep I can only imagine

all.