Flappy Bird’s original creator says he has nothing to do with the new game

https://www.theverge.com/2024/9/15/24245216/flappy-bird-creator-dong-nguyen-not-involved-new-game

This is not my beautiful Flappy Bird.

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themeatbridge@lemmy.world · 26 pts · 2y (3 replies)

The game mechanic is incredibly simple, and has been cloned a million times. The graphics weren't anything special, so really the only thing special about Flappy Bird is the name Flappy Bird.

QuadratureSurfer@lemmy.world · 17 pts · 2y (2 replies)

Flappy Bird wasn't the first to even implement a game like this.

I remember playing a very similar game with a helicopter and another one with a worm long before that app released for phones.

Flappy Bird is just the game of this type that ended up going viral in its time.

PixelTron@lemm.ee · 8 pts · 2y

I played the helicopter one as a flash web game when I was back in school some 20-25 years ago! Was one of the earliest simple time waster games (in a good sense) that I can remember being really addictive, the whole class would end up playing it in computer lessons until it got banned.

themeatbridge@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 2y

Good point.

Supervivens@lemmy.world · 17 pts · 2y (5 replies)

I mean on one hand I do think it’s fair that with him abandoning the game with taking it off stores and not using it all for him to lose the trademark. On the other, I think it’s bullshit someone else can then claim it. It should just be public domain

Agathon@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 11 pts · 2y (1 reply)

It’s public domain to me.

299792458ms@lemmy.zip · 4 pts · 2y

arrr

BrikoX@lemmy.zip · 8 pts · 2y (2 replies)

If he wanted, he could have just open sourced the game, but chose not to.

CluckN@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 2y (1 reply)

Open source would’ve been cool but I had a teacher in high school teach us how to re-create the game and it took us a week.

lastweakness@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 2y

Yes, it's basically the first game any new game dev makes. The idea is way too simple for any kind of copyright. Not to mention it already existed before Flappy bird.