“Flappy Bird” is coming back: The famous mobile game in which you have to control a bird between pipes is coming back ten years after its original release. The new game is being developed and marketed by a group called The Flappy Bird Foundation.
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But Dong Nguyen, the original inventor of “Flappy Bird”, has nothing to do with it. He wrote in an X post that he was neither involved in the development nor did he sell the “Flappy Bird” license. Nguyen found “Flappy Bird” a viral hit that turned his life upside down. Due to the huge hype surrounding “Flappy Bird”, Nguyen surprisingly decided to remove the game from the store. “I can’t stand it anymore,” Nguyen wrote at the time. He was particularly concerned about the game’s addictive nature.
Rights lost
Any speculation that this was a PR stunt and that the app would surely return to stores soon proved wrong: Nguyen never brought back “Flappy Bird” for Android and iOS. Only a modified version was released for Amazon’s Fire TV. Since Nguyen has not used the “Flappy Bird” trademark since then, a company called Gametech Holdings was apparently able to win the license in court.
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In January, Nguyen’s trademark was changed to “Flappy Bird” By the United States Patent and Trademark OfficeThe license was transferred to GameTek. Ultimately, The Flappy Bird Foundation says it purchased the rights for an undisclosed amount. So it appears that Nguyen did not benefit financially in any way from the new “Flappy Bird” game – he no longer owns the rights and did not sell his license, but simply lost it.
Crypto Scam?
In the gaming community, joy over the return of “Flappy Bird” is largely tempered — and not only because a mysterious solo developer is being replaced by a company that bought the rights through questionable means. There are also signs that cryptocurrency is playing a role in the new “Flappy Bird,” or at least was originally intended to play a role.
Cybersecurity expert Varun Biniwale finds landing pages for the new “Flappy Bird” websitewhich references terms like “Web3” and “crypto.” However, the Flappy Bird Foundation has not yet publicly announced any plans to incorporate cryptocurrencies or NFTs into its game in any form.
What exactly the new “Flappy Bird” will look like is still unclear. There is no release date yet – “Flappy Bird” will be released “soon” for Android and iOS.
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