RIP Flappy Bird

[natepopinski]

Rest in Peace Flappy bird. We hardly knew thee.

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  Flappy bird cross stitch by ngarner2, on Flickr

[Lykainion]

This is a brilliant homage to the brief, yet wonderful time we had with Flappy Bird. RIP Flappy Bird!

[La Ptite Bete]

Wow... I didn't heard about that game, its huge success... and its sudden end. But when I saw the pictures, it reminded me an older french game I used to play : "Piou-Piou contre les cactus", by KEK (2011)... It looks like I'm not the only one :
http://www.20minutes.fr/high-tech/apple/1290986-20140205-lapplication-vedette-flappy-bird-plagiat-dun-jeu-mobile-francais
Poor old Kek.

[QueenBex]

well this must've been something that passed me by completely, I swear I'm in my own little world sometimes

Cute pattern anyway, I can see that on baby stuff

[TigerLily]

It's sad that people were accusing him of stealing the sprites from Mario. (And going so far as to send him death threats because of it.) They look oh so slightly similar, but they were definitely his own. I heard today that the main reason he got rid of the game was because of it's addictive nature. He had wanted it to be something to just kill 5 minutes with when you needed to but it ended up becoming way more than that.

[QueenBex]

It's sad that people were accusing him of stealing the sprites from Mario. (And going so far as to send him death threats because of it.) They look oh so slightly similar, but they were definitely his own. I heard today that the main reason he got rid of the game was because of it's addictive nature. He had wanted it to be something to just kill 5 minutes with when you needed to but it ended up becoming way more than that.

Aw man! I miss the best news/ gossip etc!