Greater than 10 years after Flappy Fowl’s viral explosion (and subsequent deletion), the sport is again on Android gadgets, because of the cell Epic Video games Retailer. The re-release, courtesy of Flappy Fowl Publishing, is an Epic Video games Retailer for Android unique, and doesn’t function any of the bizarre cryptocurrency stink that was hinted ultimately 12 months, when Flappy Fowl was unusually launched by way of the messaging service Telegram.
The truth is, Flappy Fowl Publishing pointedly notes in a information launch that Flappy Fowl on Epic Video games Retailer for Android is monetized “solely by adverts and in-app purchases” within the type of beauty helmets for Flappy. The sport will “by no means have any Web3 components,” Flappy Fowl Publishing mentioned Tuesday.
That’s a reversal from earlier plans, through which Flappy Fowl’s rights holders wished the brand new model of the sport to be “the world’s first open-source, group owned Internet 2 and Internet 3 sport.” An earlier try and carry Flappy Fowl again by way of Telegram concerned integration with crypto wallets and the TON blockchain.
Flappy Fowl Publishing says it can proceed to launch new content material for the cell sport, together with “new worlds, characters, and themes all through 2025.”
Unique Flappy Fowl creator Dong Nguyen mentioned final 12 months he was not concerned within the revival of the sport, nor does he look like taking advantage of the model. Nguyen didn’t promote the sport’s trademark to the Flappy Fowl Basis behind the sport’s revival; the group bought the deserted trademark to relaunch it.