12 Facts About Flappy Bird

1.

Flappy Bird is a mobile game developed by Vietnamese video game artist and programmer Dong Nguyen, under his game development company.

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Flappy Bird received poor reviews from some critics, who criticized its high level of difficulty and alleged plagiarism in graphics and game mechanics, while other reviewers found it addictive.

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3.

Games similar to Flappy Bird became popular on the iOS App Store in the wake of its removal, and both Apple and Google have removed games from their app stores for being too similar to the original game.

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4.

Flappy Bird is an arcade-style game in which the player controls the bird Faby, which moves persistently to the right.

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5.

Flappy Bird discovered video games by playing Super Mario Bros.

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6.

Flappy Bird was created and developed by Nguyen in two to three days.

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7.

Flappy Bird described the business plan of a free download with in-game advertisements as "very common in the Japanese market".

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8.

Flappy Bird credited the sudden rise in the game's popularity in early 2014 to possibly "luck".

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9.

French developer of Piou Piou vs Cactus, known as Kek, told Pocket Gamer that he, too, noticed that Flappy Bird is "very similar" to his earlier game, but when he contacted Nguyen about it, Nguyen claimed that he did not know anything.

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10.

Flappy Bird became one of the most cloned games in Apple's App Store.

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11.

Flappy Bird revealed in March 2014 that he is currently developing three other games, in similar formats to his previous releases.

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12.

In 2016, Flappy Bird was replicated within Super Mario World through code injection.

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