![]() (take a look at the GIF bellow to understand a little better how the game works) Last weekend a friend of mine asked me regarding a new Angry Birds game and what changes it would have compared to previous Angry Birds model, i was confused as i hadn’t heard any new Angry Birds game get announced, it turned out she was talking about a different bird game called Flappy Bird, developed by Gears Studio the concept is a simple, you have to tap a bird to make it fly and try to maneuver it through different obstacles the further you reach the higher your score will be being each obstacle 1 point. But could a new app beat Candy Crush as most popular mobile game of 2014? ![]() “Most of my players are kids in schools.Candy Crush has been the most popular game on iOS and Android since March 2013 after it had more downloads then FarmVille, the game developed by King has over 500 million downloads the different platforms it is available on which are iOS, Facebook and Android. “I don’t know how my games can be so popular,” he told TechCrunch. While Flappy Bird’s meteoric success is the kind that is simply impossible to predict, Nguyen himself seems the most shocked of all. Candy Crush developer King even successfully filed a trademark claim on the word “candy,” while Zynga owns a trademark for the phrase “with friends,” originating from its massively successful Words With Friends app. While piggybacking on buzzwords - like “birds” - has proven effective in an increasingly congested app market, it has also raised legal eyebrows. It is a free program that features ads but offers none of the in-app purchases that have made games like Candy Crush Saga so immensely lucrative. The game was initially uploaded in May, but has only recently captured public attention. ![]() Related: Sweet Victory: Candy Crush Developer Trademarks the Word 'Candy' Players must continually tap on their touchscreens in order to navigate a bulgy-eyed yellow bird between green pipes - not unlike those traveled by Super Mario himself. “I didn’t use any promotion methods,” he said.įlappy Bird has been described as infuriatingly difficult to win and is characterized by a rudimentary graphic display and extremely straightforward (read:nonexistent) storyline. Perhaps most bafflingly, Nguyen told the app development blog Chocolate Lap Apps that the growth of the games has been entirely organic. These include Super Ball (#2) and Shuriken Block (#6). Nguyen has two other games perched high atop the iTunes charts - likely resulting from enthusiastic word-of-mouth about Flappy Bird. Related: The NSA Is Using Angry Birds to Spy on YouĪnd that’s not all. To date, it has received nearly 500,000 four-star reviews in the iTunes store. ![]() 1 free app on both Apple and Android devices. Just one glance at the iTunes and Google Play app charts makes it patently clear that mobile gamers have gone a little cuckoo over games about birds.įollowing the unprecedented success of Angry Birds, a new winged character has taken flight: Flappy Bird.Ĭreated by Dong Nguyen of dotGears, an indie game studio based in Vietnam, Flappy Bird is currently the No.
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