Flappy birds is a 2D Physics side scrolling game. Its a basic concept of keeping a bird flying through a series of obstacles that get increasingly harder and harder. The point is to keep the bird in the air as long as possible with crashing. Score is related to time. Its a perfect mobile gaming product, where most people want to play a simple 'coffee time' games on their smartphone. For such a basic game concept its sales which has been as high as $50,000 per day on app store alone.
This game has since been removed from the app store, the reasons be the intense media attention the Vietnamese artist and programmer Dong Nguyen was getting. Also possible because the addiction it was causing in certain people.
However it has many critics...
The app was criticized by the Huffington Post, which described it as an "insanely irritating, difficult and frustrating game which combines a super-steep difficulty curve with bad, boring graphics and jerky movement".
IGN gave the game a mediocre score of 5.4 out of 10, quipping that the game is as addictive as it was shallow.
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