The once highly addictive Flappy Bird is returning after more than a decade. A year after the release of the original game, in which you fly a bird between green pipes, the developer took the app offline. Now he is taking emphatic distance of the new version.
Vietnamese Dong Nguyen broke a seven-year silence on social media to make it clear that he has nothing to do with the new game. It will initially be a so-called GameFi title on Telegram (where it already is) and other platforms. The game will be released on iOS and Android next year.
Nguyen earned $50,000 a day (!) from advertising revenue for a year, but called it quits in 2014.
So now the game is returning under new ownership: the Flappy Bird Foundation, which they describe as “a new team of passionate fans focused on sharing the game with the world.”
The foundation claims it acquired the official rights from Gametech Holdings, as well as the rights to Piou Piou vs Cactus, a mobile game that served as inspiration for Flappy Bird. Gametech reportedly took the rights from Nguyen, and he is not even listed as a creator by the Flappy Bird Foundation.
Flappy Bird’s website initially revealed that it was a Web3 project built on the Solana blockchain platform. This led to speculation about what exactly the foundation plans to do with crypto, or what its revenue model will be. GameFi, or game finance, is a fusion of online gaming and decentralized finance. The information has since been removed from the foundation’s website, and its intentions remain unclear.
Source: www.emerce.nl
