Originally published at: The world's most addictive game is coming back - Boing Boing
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Was the success of the original lighting in a bottle? Can they recapture it?
Or will it be a big announcement now, and then a big yawn once it comes out?
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Zero language like “from the original creator” so I’m assuming that this exists because someone came to Nguyen with a large enough offer for the IP to overcome his moral qualms about what it became.
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It wasn’t addictive for me. I guess I’m weird. I don’t find frustratingly difficult to be addicting.
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I mean … Yeah, lightning in a bottle. It was just a web toy, and not even a good web toy. I never knew why the world thought it was anything, we were teaching 10-year-olds to code their own version.
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It is fairly safe to assume it will be absolutely infested with ads, timeouts and every single other awful thing used by apps to ‘monetize’ them. Though I’ll never know because I have mostly given up on app based games.
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Apparently the trademark expired (well, was considered “abandoned”) and someone is taking advantage, I’m sorry to say. The original creator is getting nothing, and it’s some capitalist vulture producing this.
In other words, Flappy Bird is not “coming back,” some arsehole just ripped it off.
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That’s some serious rewriting of history going on here. As I remember it, Nguyen made it basically as a practice app for figuring out how to publish an app; it quickly blew up because Pewdiepie (remember that guy?) played it on stream; Nguyen freaked out because his very-obviously-made-with-stolen-Nintendo-assets hobby project suddenly made him a public figure and a millionaire (in USD) in a country where the average daily wage was about $5 per day and so he removed the app because he didn’t want to be in the spotlight.
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Programming complexity isn’t the only measure of a game, nor even game mechanics. I’m not saying it was carefully tuned to provide just the right amount of reward per effort put in…It absolutely appears to have been an accident.
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