‘Flappy Bird’ to Soar Back on to iPhone After a Ten Year Absence
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The once-popular Flappy Bird will be soaring back onto the iPhone in 2024 after a ten-year absence. The game first flew onto the Apple App Store during the first half of 2013 and quickly became the top downloaded free game for the iPhone.
The game made a nest in the Google Play store in January 2014. At it’s apex, the game was collecting over $50,000 per day from advertisements and sales.
However, the games creator, Dong Nguyen, pulled the game from both app stores in February 2014, saying the game was too addictive.
However, mobile phone gamers will soon be flapping their wings again, as on Thursday, FlappyBird.org announced that the game would be returning to mobile phones in 2024.
Just a decade ago, I was the talk of the town and soaring to new heights with my 100 million friends. Sadly, I had to leave the fame and spotlight behind to go home and find out who I really am.
Thanks to my super Flappy Bird fans, I’m refreshed, reinvigorated, and ready to soar again. The decade-long mission involved acquiring legal rights and even working with my predecessor to uncage me and rehatch the official Flappy Bird game!
In case you’re one of the three people with a smartphone that didn’t play Flappy Bird or one of its many copycats, The easy-to-learn but hard to master game had one goal: To fly as far as you could with a bird that had a tendency to drop like a rock from the sky if you didn’t keep flapping its wings, while avoiding pipe-like obstacles that looked to have been borrowed from the 80s platformer Super Mario Bros.
It was simple, silly, and extremely addictive.
The refreshed Flappy Bird will feature the classic arcade mode, alongside new game modes, including an easier mode, a basketball mode, and a battle royale mode.
New characters will be available, including Trixie, Peng, Tekno, and Quirky, all of which appear to have unique superpowers.
When Flappy Bird creator Dong Nguyen pulled it from the Apple App Store and Google Play store in February 2014, he told Forbes magazine that playing the game was so addictive that it became “a problem.”
“Flappy Bird was designed to play in a few minutes when you are relaxed,” Nguyen said. “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.“
Nguyen’s move took almost everyone by surprise due to the game’s $50,000 -per-day ad revenue. However, Nguyen said that he had found himself overwhelmed by the attention to both his game and himself, and that’s when he decided to pull the game. However, it wasn’t just about being in the public eye, as Nguyen also received threats because of the game.
Nguyen had said at the time that he created games in his spare time as a hobby and that Flappy Bird took about three days to build.
While no official release date has been announced, the website and trailer both say that it should be “landing soon” and indicate that the game will hit app stores sometime in the next few months.
