“Flappy Bird” followers have spent greater than ten years making an attempt to convey it again to cellphones — and now the eponymous hero will return in 2024.
Flappy Chook was a wildly fashionable sport that first hit the Apple App Retailer within the first half of 2013. It did not take lengthy for the difficult arcade sport to develop into the primary downloaded free sport for iPhone. At its peak, it earned greater than $50,000 day by day from in-app commercials and gross sales.
In January 2014, Flappy Chook flew on the Google Play retailer. Nevertheless, it would not keep there lengthy.
However on Thursday, FlappyBird.org introduced that the sport can be returning to cellphones in 2024.
“Just a decade ago, I was the talk of the town and soaring to new heights with my 100 million friends,” the web site reads. “Sadly, I had to leave the fame and spotlight behind to go home and find out who I really am.”
“Thanks to my super Flappy Bird fans, I’m refreshed, reinvigorated, and ready to soar again,” it continues. “The decade-long mission involved acquiring legal rights and even working with my predecessor to uncage me and rehatch the official Flappy Bird game!”
Along with bringing again the traditional arcade mode, the refreshed Flappy Chook will characteristic new sport modes, together with a neater mode, a basketball mode, and what seems to be a battle royale mode.
There may even be new characters, together with Trixie, Peng, Tekno, and Quirky, all showing to have character-specific superpowers.
Flappy Chook does not have an official launch date. The web site and trailer each say that it must be “landing soon” and counsel that it will likely be in 2024.