Flappy Bird creator returns to X after seven years to disown the resurrected version of the game
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Dong Nguyen, the famous creator of the hit game Flappy Bird, went down in history when he announced that he would delete the game entirely because the game’s popularity and the pressure were too much. At the time, the game had millions of players, and it earned him millions in revenue.
Flappy Bird Creator Disowned The Revived Game
His famous announcement on February 8, 2014, has over 21 thousand comments, with users revisiting the tweet every year. In 2017, he finally abandoned Twitter entirely, only to return yesterday, September 15, to disown the upcoming resurrected version of his hit game.
On September 13, a group calling itself The Flappy Bird Foundation emerged with the announcement that they are re-releasing the game, claiming that they acquired legal rights and are even “working with my predecessor,” suggesting that Nguyen is somehow involved with the project.
Nguyen then returned to Twitter, these days known as X, yesterday, September 15, claiming that he has no ties to the new version of Flappy Bird. While the game acts like it was transferred from him to new “passionate” community that seeks to keep the game alive, Nguyen himself said: “No, I have no relation with their game. I did not sell anything. I also don’t support crypto.”
Flappy Bird Has New Owners And They Want To Bring In Crypto
His mentioning of crypto comes from the fact that the revived game has digital currency ties. Meanwhile, the Flappy Bird Foundation said it acquired rights to the game from Gametech Holdings LLC, which filed an opposition to the original Flappy Bird trademark last year, and won the rights for it in January 2024 from the United States Patent and Trademark office, which determined that Nguyen abandoned the game and terminated his claim.
In other words, The Flappy Bird Foundation seemingly scooped up the lapsed trademark which Nguyen did not bother to renew, and now owns the rights to the game. As for what wil happen with the “zombified” version of the game remains unclear.
Some, who have researched the data and files, have revealed that there will be different birds, loot boxes, and that the game will have some connection to crypto, with the team possibly seeking to turn it into a P2E game, potentially with NFTs.
Researcher Varun Biniwale, for example, found one of the hidden website pages for the Flabby Bird Foundation site, which said that the game will “fly harder than ever on Solana as it soars into Web 3.0.” The page has been pulled offline since its discovery.
