It allows users to buy overpriced packs of crystals to save themselves from death.įly Birdie - Flappy Bird Flyer on iOS is one of the more brazen (and currently successful) Flappy Bird alternatives, but swoops low enough to charge $0.99/£0.69 for pack of three lives.įlappy Wings (not Flappy Bird) on Android does its best to attract those searching for Flappy Bird by even mentioning it in its own title. Does have a habit of bombarding your screen with ads that you have to click to remove, however.Ĭlumsy Bird on Android takes Flappy Bird and, well, basically changes the bird to look like a cruder version of red bird from Angry Birds, and also is loosely based around the Rovio-esque premise of nasty dragons stealing the eggs of Clumsy Bird.
The controls are even twitchier than Flappy Bird, if such a thing is possible, but the relatively slick presentation ensures it's likely to do well.
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Ironpants is free on both iOS and Android, and replaces the bird with a caped superhero. Who, exactly, is downloading these Flappy Bird clones in such vast quantities? Have you been tempted? If you're jonesing for a Flappy Bird fix, here are seven of the most popular alternatives right now: While users who already downloaded Flappy Bird can still play it on their devices, many of these copycats are rocketing up the charts on both mobile storefronts-Clumsy Bird is number one on the "top new free" section of Google Play Store at time of writing, while Ironpants is at the top of the free charts on iOS. It remains to be seen what other platforms Flappy Birds Family with fly to, but for now, get it on Amazon.Numerous developers have rushed in to plug the void left by frustrating mobile sensation Flappy Bird, which was removed from the iOS App Store and Google Play over the weekend.
It's the same game with a few more features, and if they loved it then, they should love it now, right? Perhaps, but that's hardly a sure thing, and the average app downloader has a shorter memory and less loyalty than most. It's going to be a curious experiment to see if the public's attention span can snap back to something that was insanely popular just six months ago. It's just going to be a lot more work to steal. Not so with Kim Kardashian: Hollwood, where in terms of mechanical complexity, Flappy Bird makes it look like Dark Souls. Clones of Flappy Bird ran rampant because the game was so easy to reproduce. But with that said, for all its absurdity, Kardashian's game is infinitely more complex than Flappy Bird, and no one is going to be able to rip it off in a manner of days or hours like what happened with Dong Nguyen's original. It's a pretty diverse mix of games at this point, with the new talk of the town being Kim Kardashian: Hollywood, the absurdly successful celebrity ladder-climbing game that was number one for a time (now #5 on Apple) and reportedly made Glu Mobile $200M in about a month, with Kardashian herself netting $85M of that through a lucrative arrangement with the publisher.įor as much press as that game's gotten recently, if there's anything else about to be cloned to all hell, it's probably KK:H. To the app market's credit, it finally seems to have settled into a place where there's no one dominant game type that's being cloned endlessly and taking up a solid chunk of the charts. It's kind of like expecting Vanilla Ice to shoot up the charts by releasing a remix of his one-hit wonder. That's why I'm not sure if Flappy Birds Family will make much of an impact on the market, if it isn't locked into an Amazon-only deal. For as much as the public liked Flappy Bird itself, they liked the mechanic more than the IP, and they were perfectly content to replace it with any number of identical copies practically the second it went down. Almost as soon as it did, "Splashy Fish" was the one that rose higher than all the rest, with 5 to 10 million daily players, and 250 million games being played per day. Yes, that means I can't really predict that players will certainly reject the return of the game, but looking over the charts now, it seems the age of the "tap to avoid obstacles" genre is over.Īt the height of the Flappy Bird craze, a solid 20 or so of the top 100 apps in Apple's iOS store were Flappy Bird clones, and that remained true even after the original came down. It's hard to say, as the app market is notoriously fickle.
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