Greater than 10 years after Flappy Bird’s viral explosion (and subsequent deletion), the sport is again on Android gadgets, due to the cellular Epic Video games Retailer. The re-release, courtesy of Flappy Bird Publishing, is an Epic Video games Retailer for Android unique, and doesn’t function any of the weird cryptocurrency stink that was hinted eventually 12 months, when Flappy Bird was strangely released via the messaging service Telegram.
In truth, Flappy Bird Publishing pointedly notes in a information launch that Flappy Bird on Epic Video games Retailer for Android is monetized “solely by advertisements and in-app purchases” within the type of beauty helmets for Flappy. The sport will “by no means have any Web3 parts,” Flappy Bird Publishing mentioned Tuesday.
That’s a reversal from earlier plans, during which Flappy Bird’s rights holders wished the brand new model of the sport to be “the world’s first open-source, group owned Internet 2 and Internet 3 sport.” An earlier try and convey Flappy Bird again via Telegram concerned integration with crypto wallets and the TON blockchain.
Flappy Bird Publishing says it’s going to proceed to launch new content material for the cellular sport, together with “new worlds, characters, and themes all through 2025.”
Unique Flappy Bird creator Dong Nguyen mentioned final 12 months he was not concerned within the revival of the sport, nor does he look like cashing in on the model. Nguyen didn’t promote the sport’s trademark to the Flappy Bird Basis behind the sport’s revival; the group bought the deserted trademark to relaunch it.
