Candy Crush Saga and its nemesis Rovio Juice
Cubes isn’t the only addictive video game as I’d penne in my game review blog article
entitled “Rovio
Juice Cubes is a Freemium In-App Purchase Gold Bar Mine - To get to Level 200,
you have to become Goldfinger but Crypto-Currency will make In-App Purchases
tolerable”.
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Flappy
Birds, a pixilated throwback to the 90’s Arcade Games era when Nintendo
Super NES was the console to have, is now at pole position on the Apple
ITunes App Store charts as well as holding on to
the No. 2 spot on the Google Play Store as noted in the article “How 'Flappy Bird'
Went From Obscurity to No. 1 App”, published 4 February 2014 BY KARISSA
BELL, Mashable.
Despite this the
game has some impressive metrics, based on the article “Indie
smash hit 'Flappy Bird' racks up $50K per day in ad revenue”, published
February 5, 2014 06:16 pm By Ellis Hamburger, The
Verge:
1.
US$50,000 in earnings per day from ad revenue alone
2.
50 million downloads thus far
3.
47,000 reviews in the App Store
This puts Flappy
Birds in the same category as other more noteworthy apps that took months
to develop such as Evernote and Gmail. With such a clever yet simple formula,
it's no wonder that Dong Nguyen has no intention to
change the formula of ad-subsidized free game, quote: “Flappy Bird has reached
a state where anything added to the game will ruin it somehow, so I'd like to
leave it as is. I will think about a sequel but I'm not sure about the timeline”.
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Incredibly, its
creator, a publicity shy naturalized Vietnamese citizen who goes by the innocent
name of Dong
Nguyen, is an accidental genius. Apparently DotGears,
his Game Development Studio, spat this evil upon us in less than three days, it
experienced a surge in December 2013 and it began its meteoric rise to
superstardom in the last week of January 2014 on both the Apple iTunes and the Google
Play App Store.
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Apparently this
Angry Birds homonym merely makes one angry with this apparently hapless,
helpless and very stupid bird, its success purely fuelled by the pure blind rage
of its frustrated and clearly addicted players as condensed in the article “Flappy
Bird is not the new Angry Birds – it's pure rage”, published February 5th
2014, The UK Guardian.
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Believe me, it
was very hard finding anyone with a
rational angle on the game, based on the cumulative anger expressed online in
the article “The
maddening pull of 'Flappy Bird”', published February 5, 2014 -- Updated
2258 GMT By Heather Kelly, CNN. The
negative Rhetoric is even worse on YouTube, with even highly educated folk
taking great pride in reaching scores in the double digits as per this
example…of which many exist!
EVERYONE seemed
to decry its popularity as proof of the apparent decay of Americans so desperate
for entertainment that they fill their spare moments with mindless
entertainment that borders on torture as opined in “'Flappy
Bird' Review: Winged Fury”, published 2/03/2014 @ 11:06AM by Paul Tassi, Forbes.
This again, as
this must be repeated, is mainly due to the difficulty in achieving it simple
task; flying an almost wingless bird through a maze reminiscent of Super Mario
Brothers as excellently psycho-analyzed in “Flappy
Bird And The Power Of Simplicity Scaled”, published 2/03/2014 @ 10:57AM by Anthony
Wing Kosner, Forbes.
Hint: You need
to focus all you thoughts onto the very tip of your finger and concentrate.
Medication can help with this, otherwise all you’ll get is either a broken
smartphone or sore fingers after a few minutes,…then hours…or fruitless tapping
to keep him in the air and make it through the barriers.
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The more pipes
you manage to navigate the bird through, the higher you score. Apparently it
may have other levels and hacks do exist…but that would be spoiling it for you
now wouldn’t it? Still, here’s the cheat, if making it up the leaderboards is that important to you!
If you’ve read
my blog articles on how to play smartphone Games such as Candy
Crush Saga and Rovio Juice
Cubes on your PC using BlueStacks
App Player as explained in my
blog article
entitled “How
to download Candy Crush Saga and play it on your Desktop or Laptop - BlueStacks
App Player to the Rescue of the non Post-PC Era people”, then you know what
to do.
Just be prepared
to be frustrated to annoyance as Flappy
Birds frustrates you to tears, causes you to chuck away your
smartphone….and mysteriously get addicted as you whittle away hours trying to
get the bird to just make it through the first 3 obstacles! Summed up, Flappy
Birds is Wonder Woman\s
(1975–1979) Nemesis Ares Armour fuelled by Rage which only Meditation
avails.
Check out the
ranking on the Apple
ITunes App Store charts as well on the Google
Play Store and download links below:
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