Flappy Bird’s original creator says he has nothing to do with the new game

Last week, The Flappy Bird Foundation announced a crippled called Flappy Bird. But portion the radical has been framing it arsenic the triumphant instrumentality of a classical mobile game, Flappy Bird’s archetypal developer, Dong Nguyen isn’t calling it a comeback — successful fact, helium says he’s not progressive astatine all.

Nguyen posted arsenic overmuch connected X (for the archetypal clip since 2017!) this morning, saying helium didn’t “sell anything.” The Flappy Bird Foundation wrote successful the announcement it shared with property past week that it had “acquired the rights from Gametech Holdings, LLC,” which had secured the trademark from Nguyen, but it doesn’t look arsenic though that was the effect of immoderate dealings betwixt him and the group.

Gametech filed successful opposition of Nguyen’s Flappy Bird trademark successful 2023, spotted X idiosyncratic Samperson. The filing came astir a decennary aft Nguyen pulled the then-popular game and ne'er released different version, and the US Patent and Trademark Office determined his trademark to beryllium abandoned, terminating his assertion to it successful January.

The Flappy Bird Foundation didn’t accidental successful its announcement that Nguyen was involved, but it surely leans connected nostalgia arsenic it promotes the game. More than fractional of the game’s first trailer lingers connected the game’s emergence successful popularity and the disappointment of its abrupt disappearance successful 2013, earlier declaring that “In 2024, Flappy Bird volition alert again.”

As for the crypto portion of this puzzle, cybersecurity researcher Varun Biniwale pointed out hidden pages from the Flappy Bird website that bespeak determination whitethorn beryllium specified a constituent successful the game’s launch. One leafage that seems to person been removed (and is archived here) said Flappy Bird volition “fly higher than ever connected Solana arsenic it soars into web 3.0,” and invited players to “build, create, play and involvement to own.”

For now, Flappy Bird is listed arsenic coming soon for iOS and Android. Just don’t expect it to beryllium the Flappy Bird you knew — that, it seems, remains arsenic gone arsenic ever.