Prez wrote on Feb 9, 2014, 17:05:I never heard of Flappy Bird too until this game got popular in the news on 2/6/2014. :/
I'm kind of proud of the fact that I have never heard of "Flappy Birds" (or "Fappy Birds"!) until just now. Although the idea of making 50 grand a day makes me drool.
Orogogus wrote on Feb 10, 2014, 02:36:
His point was that Angry Birds was a new concept and Flappy Birds is a ripoff, which seems frankly ridiculous.
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I can see done well, but how was Angry Birds a new idea given the hundreds of physics based puzzlers you mentioned?
Alamar wrote on Feb 9, 2014, 21:10:nin wrote on Feb 9, 2014, 20:18:NewMaxx wrote on Feb 9, 2014, 20:15:Orogogus wrote on Feb 9, 2014, 13:35:
I don't know about dollar success, but I think Angry Birds is more analogous ... But Angry Birds and Flappy Bird are two games I wouldn't have guessed would almost immediately rake in more money than I'll ever see in my life. Are there a ton of people with a gene that makes bird games irresistible
Except for the fact that Angry Birds is a well-designed game. It has pleasing graphics, decent performance, great audio, a fantastic difficulty curve, and in general fits the mold of what a mobile game should be. Flappy Bird rips off not only an entire game concept from Helicopter but also rips off artwork from Super Mario Bros. There's no comparison. One is a new idea done well, another is an old idea that only got popular because people are ADHD-riddled and generally incapable of gauging their self-value outside of a repetitively pointless activity.
You realize Angry Birds ripped off Crush The Castle, right?
I've always contended something along those lines... It's hard to claim that Crush The Castle was the first game of that style when hundreds of 'physics based puzzlers' were popping up at the time...
But it doesn't change NewMaxx's points... It was well designed, pleasing, etc... In essence, they 'Blizzard'd' the game type...
As for Flapppy copying 'Helicopter'... I hope he's not claiming it ripped off a mobile game, because I played that genre about 14 years ago.
-Alamar
One is a new idea done well, another is an old idea that only got popular because blah blah blah
Ozmodan wrote on Feb 9, 2014, 23:17:Beamer wrote on Feb 9, 2014, 18:16:Ozmodan wrote on Feb 9, 2014, 18:09:
Seriously, if you believed he was making 50k a day I have a bridge for sale in brooklyn, I will cut you a great deal.
Candy Crush earns about $850k/day, so this isn't really difficult to believe.
Well Candy Crush is someone addictive for bored people, Flappy Bird is not even a decent app. Oh and it does have in game advertising.
Beamer wrote on Feb 9, 2014, 18:16:Ozmodan wrote on Feb 9, 2014, 18:09:
Seriously, if you believed he was making 50k a day I have a bridge for sale in brooklyn, I will cut you a great deal.
Candy Crush earns about $850k/day, so this isn't really difficult to believe.
NewMaxx wrote on Feb 9, 2014, 20:15:Orogogus wrote on Feb 9, 2014, 13:35:
I don't know about dollar success, but I think Angry Birds is more analogous ... But Angry Birds and Flappy Bird are two games I wouldn't have guessed would almost immediately rake in more money than I'll ever see in my life. Are there a ton of people with a gene that makes bird games irresistible
Except for the fact that Angry Birds is a well-designed game. It has pleasing graphics, decent performance, great audio, a fantastic difficulty curve, and in general fits the mold of what a mobile game should be. Flappy Bird rips off not only an entire game concept from Helicopter but also rips off artwork from Super Mario Bros. There's no comparison. One is a new idea done well, another is an old idea that only got popular because people are ADHD-riddled and generally incapable of gauging their self-value outside of a repetitively pointless activity.
Alamar wrote on Feb 9, 2014, 21:10:
In essence, they 'Blizzard'd' the game type...
As for Flapppy copying 'Helicopter'... I hope he's not claiming it ripped off a mobile game, because I played that genre about 14 years ago.
nin wrote on Feb 9, 2014, 20:18:NewMaxx wrote on Feb 9, 2014, 20:15:Orogogus wrote on Feb 9, 2014, 13:35:
I don't know about dollar success, but I think Angry Birds is more analogous ... But Angry Birds and Flappy Bird are two games I wouldn't have guessed would almost immediately rake in more money than I'll ever see in my life. Are there a ton of people with a gene that makes bird games irresistible
Except for the fact that Angry Birds is a well-designed game. It has pleasing graphics, decent performance, great audio, a fantastic difficulty curve, and in general fits the mold of what a mobile game should be. Flappy Bird rips off not only an entire game concept from Helicopter but also rips off artwork from Super Mario Bros. There's no comparison. One is a new idea done well, another is an old idea that only got popular because people are ADHD-riddled and generally incapable of gauging their self-value outside of a repetitively pointless activity.
You realize Angry Birds ripped off Crush The Castle, right?
NewMaxx wrote on Feb 9, 2014, 20:15:Orogogus wrote on Feb 9, 2014, 13:35:
I don't know about dollar success, but I think Angry Birds is more analogous ... But Angry Birds and Flappy Bird are two games I wouldn't have guessed would almost immediately rake in more money than I'll ever see in my life. Are there a ton of people with a gene that makes bird games irresistible
Except for the fact that Angry Birds is a well-designed game. It has pleasing graphics, decent performance, great audio, a fantastic difficulty curve, and in general fits the mold of what a mobile game should be. Flappy Bird rips off not only an entire game concept from Helicopter but also rips off artwork from Super Mario Bros. There's no comparison. One is a new idea done well, another is an old idea that only got popular because people are ADHD-riddled and generally incapable of gauging their self-value outside of a repetitively pointless activity.
Orogogus wrote on Feb 9, 2014, 13:35:
I don't know about dollar success, but I think Angry Birds is more analogous ... But Angry Birds and Flappy Bird are two games I wouldn't have guessed would almost immediately rake in more money than I'll ever see in my life. Are there a ton of people with a gene that makes bird games irresistible
yuastnav wrote on Feb 9, 2014, 18:27:
This is the first time that I've heard about this game.
Can someone enlightend us please on what's going on?
Or is it just a case of "simple mobile game got popular for some reason which attracted a lot of criticism"?
If that is the case, what is the criticism then?
Ozmodan wrote on Feb 9, 2014, 18:09:
Seriously, if you believed he was making 50k a day I have a bridge for sale in brooklyn, I will cut you a great deal.
Ozmodan wrote on Feb 9, 2014, 18:09:
Seriously, if you believed he was making 50k a day I have a bridge for sale in brooklyn, I will cut you a great deal.
Orogogus wrote on Feb 9, 2014, 13:35:
Are there a ton of people with a gene that makes bird games irresistible?