Flappy Bird is coming back

A self-described “team of passionate fans committed to sharing the crippled with the world” says they’ve acquired the rights to Flappy Bird, the iconic mobile crippled whose creator took it offline little than a twelvemonth aft it was released. Now, “The Flappy Bird Foundation Group” volition relaunch the crippled connected Android and iOS successful 2025.

But it’s unclear whether the archetypal creator of Flappy Bird, Dong Nguyen, is simply a portion of the game’s relaunch. The Verge reached retired to Nguyen with a petition for remark but didn’t instantly perceive back. His relationship connected X and the website for his crippled improvement institution don’t amusement immoderate caller updates. The Flappy Bird Foundation said they acquired the rights to the crippled from Gametech, LLC, which isn’t associated with Nguyen.

Following Flappy Bird’s abrupt shutdown successful 2014, clones started flooding app stores portion companies attempted to drawback up its trademark. Even though Ngyuen expressed interest successful relaunching the crippled astatine the time, Apple’s App Store rules whitethorn person prevented him from doing so. Under the rules, developers suffer ownership of an app’s sanction erstwhile they region it, and they can’t relaunch it nether the aforesaid sanction if different developer is utilizing it.

Still, arsenic idiosyncratic who was a large Flappy Bird subordinate backmost successful 2013, I’d emotion to spot the crippled brought backmost to life.

While the caller crippled volition diagnostic the archetypal Flappy Bird character, aboriginal updates volition present caller crippled modes, characters, and “massive multiplayer challenges.” The new Flappy Bird website shows what we mightiness expect, with a caller “rivals” mode wherever you tin situation 99 different players and different that has you shooting birds done hoops hoops. There are immoderate caller characters arsenic well, similar “Peng” the penguin, and the rainbow mohawk-sporting “Quirky.”