It’s now
official folks!
However,
for lovers of Flappy
Bird don’t despair; there already a clone of
Flappy
Bird called Ironpants.
Ironpants
is on both the Google
Play Store as well as the Apple iTunes
and has now taken the No. 1 position on Apple iTunes Charts
now that Flappy
Bird died reported in “'Flappy
Bird' Gone, But 'Ironpants' Takes Its Spot”, published 2/09/2014 @ 12:43PM
by Dave Thier, Forbes.
Despite
the No. 1 success of the free Flappy
Bird App, which up until Saturday February 8th 2014 clocked 50
million downloads strong and made US$50,000 per month as per my blog article
entitled “Flappy
Birds is No. 1 Free Game on Apple iTunes and No. 2 on Google Play Store -
Flappy Birds is Wonder Woman's Nemesis Ares Armour fuelled by Rage which only
Meditation avails”, the unwanted attention was getting to the humble
Vietnamese Developer Dong Nguyen and his Developer Studio DotGears.
Being famous
isn’t all it’s cracked up to be and based on his tweets, Dong Nguyen
wasn’t taking kindly to his newfound fame based on his tweets on his Twitter
account on Saturday February 8th 2014 as reported in “Flappy
Bird to be grounded by its creator?”, published February 8, 2014 1:40 PM
PST by CNET News Staff.
He
must have been getting flamed i.e. persons spamming his Social Media accounts
as well as his email with “hater” mail, negative jealous commentary regarding
the success of what was a rather silly Game.
Whatever
man! His strategy to make money, pop up ads in the Game that distracted you
while guiding the bird, meant that he made money, approximately US$50,000 per
day just from click ads every time
you played…..and played…and played…multiplied by 50,000,000 frustrated American
players!
Apple iTunes
keeps sending me to the Apple Store to download
Apple iTunes, which I obliged, as I do use it and it was in need of updating.
IronPants is Iron Man as a Bird –
Best Clone thus far of Flappy Birds that’s just as annoying
So
it’s gone. Send in the Clones, thousands of which have popped up. To their
credit, Ironpants
actually popped up on the Apple iTunes Charts on
Monday January 27th 2014, a clear 10 days after Flappy
Bird first reached the No. 1 spot and 2 weeks before Flappy
Bird was removed.
Ironpants
has already taken the No. 1 spot by default, suggesting that probably even more
annoying with even more pop-up distracting Ads as stated in “Flappy
Bird Is Gone From The App Store”, published Sunday February 9th 2014 by
Greg Kumparak, TechCrunch.
So
what are we to make of this?
In
the meantime, for those of you with sore thumbs that you want to get worked up
in a frenzy, I recommend Ironpants,
which is intriguingly similar, save it’s not a bird but a pixilated flying
superhero you must guide through obstacles in a city to save the damsel in distress….obviously.
This
is clearly a more annoying Game….or a more ingenious version of a Freemium Game
Model as described in my Geezam blog
article entitled “Smartphones
and Apps – Freemium Games are No. 1”. Instead of in-App purchases, you “pay”
to play via clicking on annoying pop up ads, effectively a new Gaming model
which I’ll call In-App Advertising.
Developed
and Discovered thanks to Dong Nguyen
and his Developer Studio DotGears with his game Flappy
Bird!
The characters might just
as well be falling droplets with advertisements that you click on or catch in a
side scrolling bucket, with the highest score attained by clicking on or
catching the higher value brands in a certain order.
Somewhat
similar to the Boom
Shaka Boooom App which wasn’t very well received but still a valiant effort
by Developer Toucan Limited, which has offices in Jamaica and Mumbai, India as
noted in “Toucan
cracks Jamaican market”, published Wednesday, September 19, 2012 BY
SHAMILLE SCOTT Business reporter, The
Jamaica Observer.
Guess
I need to start working on my Video Game App with this #GeniusIdea of falling
droplets, as truth be told, making Video Games is a seriously big moneymaker as
I’d pointed out in my blog article
entitled “Animation
after Kingstoon - How to make a Video Game for PC, Smartphone and Tablet”.
Folks,
later…..I’ve gone off to copyright this concept as of tomorrow and assemble a
team to build it.
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