Flappy Octopus, Flappy Jellfish, Flappy Whale, Flappy Fish, Flappy Wings

And just when you thought it couldn't get any weirder...

http://www.polygon.com/2014/2/10/5397…ter-game-pulled

http://www.dogetek.co/game/

Im not even mad.

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maybe it's THESE games that are the pinnacle of art and all those other games (mario, zelda, animal crossing, half-life, cs, metroid, resident evil, duke nukem, street fighter, battlefield, call of duty, journey etc) are all wannabe art-shit games for losers who want to pretend that video games are actually worthy of anything other than taking a big shit right all over their pixelated faces?

No way lol.

Anyways, I'm not hating on FlappyBird (never played the game myself), I'm hating on the fact that a lot of people ONLY play these games. But then again, it's their free time and they do whatever the fuck they want with it

It's a shame the guy pulled the game though, he could have just changed the art assets quickly and sell the game to EA.

It's pretty much the fight between the dumb goliath and the virtuous david your doing guys. It's not arrogant at all to say that, but as big nerds we are already far advanced into playing videogames to have developed a (snobbish) complicated taste and not able to enjoy simple concepts anymore, we know the codes of what is a good game and what is not a good one (for us).

Flappy bird is the kind of things for people who like games but don't played many and who are far less exigent than we are and are of course far more numerous. And as such they are not driven by "game quality" or "pure good virtuous game art" (between quotation marks as this is completely arbitrary things) and not interested a single bit into the media other than getting quickly distracted. There's nothing to be angry about.

You could very easily make the same analogy with "noble" and "working-class" movies. Or the same with literature (gamesofthrones/flaubert), music (daft punk/jean sébastien bach), painting(speed painters/manet) .. (where i'm not emitting a judgement of value, just presenting the oppositions)

Which means that videogames are doomed to become more and more an independent field with their codes for nobility and vulgar, classical, avant garde etc (that will be funny to see in 30 years).

I'm pretty sure there's people absolutely pissed off in the movie scene to have to work on robocop 3 when they could be doing "pure art" abstract conceptual short movies or the like.

Because in fine, I would not be pissed off because these games exist, i would be pissed off because they make money, and because of that if i want to find a job, i would have to work on them (and it's not what i like). So i kinda agree with the hate for that reason .

But still if you enjoy doing "good videogames" as you like them to be. You have to go into a niche market out of the worldwide domination point of view.

Speaking of clones of clones of clones

http://hellogiggles.com/farewell-flapp…to-play-instead

Flappy Doge ftw xD

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To be clear i didn't hate on the guy. Just found it depressing that so much money can be made with something so simple and uncreative while talented guys/teams barely scrape by or break even.

Do you use Post-it?

Just got 20.

Anyways, the guy is an incredibly smart strategist… by telling the game was being pulled, you can only imagine the spike in downloads: all the people who are playing it must have told friends to download it.

I wouldn't be surprise to learn the game was starting to decrease revenue or downloads.

I downloaded it too and played it on the toilets; got 4. hard stuff (the game)

What level of hardness would it score on the bristol stool chart?

Eating too many pizzas

http://terrycavanaghgames.com/maverickbird/

Pretty damn good, actually~

Terry Cavanaugh is amazine, this is great!

Got 20 yday (on Flappy Bird).

The only good thing i can say about Maverickbird is that it quicker to restart a game, Flappy Bird is unbearable in that regard. Then the view is too noisy. Got 5 in just under 10 runs, whether on Flappy Bird i don't think i could.

yeah just came here to post this - it's a pretty good game in it's own right - great music, really nice visual hype too

My favorite game for ios was a tetris clone called tris. Nice visuals and a good control for touch I would have happily paid for it if it wasn't free. Nintendo had him take it down and that was that. I dunno if I care about the flappy plagiarize deal. It's such a simple game and it filled a market niche. The insane thing about the whole story is the money/effort-ratio and seeing the human hivemind at work.

Did you guys here of Flapp MMO yet? I'ts 'amazing'! xD

http://flapmmo.com/ (Site might be overloaded.)

lmao! Flappy Bird has now officially become the best thing on the internet.

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http://terrycavanaghgames.com/maverickbird/

Pretty damn good, actually~

Only have one small criticism though, the flash to white when you died hurt my eyes so bad I couldn't play it for long.

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lmao! Flappy Bird has now officially become the best thing on the internet.

Agreed, it's so weird how it blew up so big! And quickly! xD

thats what she said