In the middle of a somewhat remarkable success, Dong Nguyen, developer of the game Flappy Bird, issued a shocking announcement. He said it would be interesting a difficult game played, but make it from circulation was hooked.
"I'm sorry, user Flappy Bird, 22 hours from now, I will be unplugging the Flappy Bird," the sound of the announcement via his Twitter account Dong, Saturday (9/2/2014).
Through a series of Tweets later, Nguyen explained that the surprise decision solely based on the popularity of Flappy Bird which had damaged "the simple life". He dismissed the possibility that Flappy bird has been sold to another party or tripped over legal issues.
The last question referred to was indeed crowded discussed earlier. Flappy Bird is a unique phenomenon. A very popular Game is actually very simple, both in terms of the look and gameplay that the player flying a bird through the cracks the pipe as much and as long as possible to raise the score. That's about it.
However, as highlighted by Forbes, behind the simple concept of Flappy Bird hidden potential legal problems lurking. The most obvious is a graphical view of this game. Flappy Bird called lively has some visual similarities with the game series Super Mario Bros. from Nintendo.
The similarity is such a green pipe forms very similar to similar objects in Mario games, as well as character design similar birds flying fish named "cheep-cheep" appears in the third series of games made by Nintendo. Backdrop graphics and style a la 8-bit gaming console jadul seeming complete similarities that exist.
In fact, the sound comes when the bird goes through a crack pipe is also similar to the sound when the character Mario in the game Nintendo get coins.
Could it be that Nguyen knowingly plagiarized from Mario? I dunno, but there's another possibility argues Kotaku. "Maybe (the similarities) intentionally created as a subtle protest against Nintendo as it could not publish the big game titles in iOS, perhaps also because Nguyen created the Flappy Bird in just three days," wrote the site.
With all the similarities, it could be only a matter of time before the Nintendo cast a law suit. Moreover, Nguyen got no small income from the Flappy Bird.
Bad but good
In terms of gameplay and overall quality, arguably there is nothing special about Flappy Bird. Instead, the game is arguably worse because it was impressed by someone who is just learning to develop the game.
Polygon exemplifies a number of animated bugs and a decrease in performance on the following versions of Android, hitbox (the invisible object in the game is used to detect collision between objects) are great too. Hitbox is the reason why the birds easy to bump the pipeline when it was about to pass through the gap.
Likewise with the mechanism of "fly" or flapping, which actually is not exceptional.
Anyway, very simple gameplay and graphics of battered not blocking the Flappy Bird won overwhelming popularity. Probably due to "restart" the facility made easy, the player will be hooked to try again and again, curious to fly the birds further and got the score higher.
Flappy Bird has become an example of how the market actually tastes could not guess. As he had been diucaptkan by screenwriter and novelist William Goldman that Hollywood people actually "does not know anything".
Without the graphic level, "wah", the story, the mechanism of achievement, or promotional support himself big, Flappy Bird menggelontorkan $ 600 million into the pockets of the maker. The success surprised everyone, even Dong Nguyen.
But does the gameplay formula Flappy Bird that is addictive and becomes the key to its popularity is a true creation of Nguyen? May be rightly so, but there is also the possibility of the opposite. Flappy Bird was not the first game that portrays a bird flying across the halang rintang.
In the past, mobile gaming has appeared entitled Piou Piou released in 2011. Except for the graphics display style, Flappy bird is basically a concept similar to this game. The author also felt suspicious and uploading a tweet contains a comparison of the two games, as can be seen above.
Then, does Nguyen took inspiration for Flappy Bird from Super Mario Bros. and Piou Piou? He said that the legal issue is not the cause of the retraction of the Flappy Bird from circulation.
When asked about alleged copyright infringement via Twitter, Nguyen gave answers that invites curiosity. "Ah, I am not stealing anything directly. Do it is an art unto itself, "he said.
Strategy
Until a few hours before doing so, Flappy Bird persists in the top spot of most applications store download chart the iTunes App Store and Google's Play. This Game has been downloaded over 50 million times.
If not for avoiding legal noose, then what motivates Nguyen mencab