Flappy Chicken is lastly returning, 10 years after its demise

A decade after its and , the unique is coming again. Below the banner of the Flappy Chicken Basis, some devoted followers acquired the rights to the viral cellular hit, per a press launch. Flappy Chicken will return to iOS and Android as native cellular apps in 2025. However you can play it elsewhere earlier than then. The group is planning to convey the sport to different platforms, corresponding to desktop and the cellular net, beginning this fall.

The Flappy Chicken Basis has some large plans for the , and it confirmed off a few of these in . Whereas sustaining the unique recreation design is vital, you can too count on new modes, characters, development and multiplayer challenges.

A mix of adverse gameplay and a crude artwork model (together with pipes that appeared very impressed by Mario video games) helped Flappy Chicken develop into a sensation. The problem posed by tapping the display to flap the fowl’s wings and squeeze by means of gaps between pipes caught the creativeness of legions of players — greater than 100 million of them, in accordance with the Flappy Chicken Basis.

Flappy Chicken debuted in Might 2013 however it did not blow up till the next January. Developer Dong Nguyen quickly revealed that the sport was raking in $50,000 per day from promoting. Nonetheless, Flappy Chicken‘s success was for its creator. Nguyen eliminated it from the App Retailer and Google Play in February 2014 for (although he introduced one other model to Amazon Hearth TV later that yr).

“Flappy Chicken was designed to play in a couple of minutes when you’re relaxed,” he advised . “However it occurred to develop into an addictive product. I believe it has develop into an issue. To unravel that downside, it is best to take down Flappy Chicken. It is gone without end.” Fortunately for followers (however perhaps not individuals who have been reselling outdated telephones with the unique recreation nonetheless put in), “without end” is not essentially everlasting.