Are you ready to get addicted to Flappy Bird all over again? (YouTube)
Long lost mobile game Flappy Bird is being resurrected by a group of fans 10 years after it went offline, but without the original creator.
If you go back 10 years and look at which games were most popular at that time, you might be surprised by mobile game Flappy Bird, which had millions of people playing it worldwide.
Despite making its owner $50,000 (£38,000) a day in advertisement money, the creator eventually decided to take it offline, saying it ‘ruins my simple life.’
That was in 2014, and now, a decade later, a group of dedicated fans are re-launching Flappy Bird, with a release date set for the end of October.
When is Flappy Bird being re-released?
A tweet from earlier today states that Flappy Bird is ‘refreshed, reinvigorated, and ready to soar again’, adding:
‘The decade-long mission involved acquiring legal rights and even working with my predecessor to uncage me and re-hatch the official Flappy Bird game!’
This has all been orchestrated by a group of fans called the Flappy Bird Foundation, who have gotten hold of the official rights to release the game again.
There is no exact release date yet, but Flappy Bird has set a release window of the end of October on multiple platforms, including web browsers, while a release on iOS and Android is set for 2025.
It’s an expanded and refreshed version of the decade old game, and comes with new characters and worlds, multiplayer challenges, and more game modes.
One of the new modes consists of shooting Flappy through basketball hoops, and a more forgiving feature called Flappy Bird Ez Mode is also being rolled out.
Why was Flappy Bird taken offline?
Flappy Bird was created by Vietnamese developer Nguyen Ha Dong and launched in 2014, but despite its success he decided to take it offline because of the negative effect it had on himself and fans, in terms of addiction and frustration.
In a series of tweets at the time he explained that, ‘I can call Flappy Bird a success of mine. But it also ruins my simple life. So now I hate it,’ and said he was taking it offline ‘because how people use my game. They are overusing it.’
Flappy Bird 2.0 will launch without Dong, who hasn’t commented on the re-release of his game yet.
Some of the new game modes in Flappy Bird (YouTube)
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