Flappy Bird creator rejects ‘official’ new version of game

Ten years after the disappearance of the wildly popular Flappy Bird game, a corporation calling itself The Flappy Bird Foundation announced plans “re-hatch the official Flappy Bird® game.”

But this morning, the game’s creator Dong Nguyen posted a characteristically concise comment stating that he had nothing to do with the revival and that he “didn’t sell anything.” He added: “I don’t support cryptocurrencies either.”

To be clear, Nguyen’s comments don’t contradict anything in the inspiration’s announcement, which described the group as “a new team of passionate fans who want to share the game with the world” and he said he had “acquired rights from Gametech Holdings, LLC.” (Apparently Gametech successfully submitted application for termination (Flappy Bird, Nguyen’s trademark from just a few years ago.)

However, it’s clear from the post that Nguyen just isn’t involved within the new project and doesn’t seem particularly completely happy about it.

As for Nguyen’s reference to cryptocurrencies, while the inspiration’s current PR materials don’t mention anything related to cryptocurrencies, Varun Biniwale did make several searching hidden pages ON Flappy Bird Foundation website and located a reference to a Flappy Bird game that “flies higher than ever on Solana, soaring towards Web 3.0,” though it’s unclear whether this refers to approaching features or abandoned plans.

Flappy Bird — a comparatively easy side-scrolling game with retro graphics — was first released in 2013, eventually becoming a viral hit and probably the most downloaded app on each the iOS and Android app stores. However, Nguyen deleted the app in February 2014, declaring, “I can’t take it anymore.”