I've made an open source flappy bird clone

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This is now the second Flappy Bird clone within 24 hours and sometimes I wonder what&#x27;s going on in such people. Talented coders who can program like hell but are not able to find an own idea or at least to steal some neat idea and make it better.<p>Do they really think because it&#x27;s open source or HTML5 makes it better?

Why is this important? What makes this different from any other open source game clone?

I don&#x27;t get it. This is a clone of that very old Helicopter Game. Which I played for some hours then never touch it again. What is it that people are so addicted to?<p>I am really looking for some clever games I could play on my phone (WITHOUT being online all the time) but everything I find and people seem to like a popping bubbles and this. This can&#x27;t be it...please...

What developpers don&#x27;t understand is that people don&#x27;t actually like&#x2F;want that game.<p>It&#x27;s an inexplicable trends, even if your clone is super awesome no one will want to play it (it apply for every clone it&#x27;s not an personnal attack).

Is Flappy Bird the new &quot;Hello World!&quot; for game engines?

A word of warning: looks like you&#x27;re using the original (&quot;&#x27;original&#x27;&quot;?) copyrighted assets from Flappy Bird. Legally speaking, you can&#x27;t distribute those and your Github repo could be served a DMCA takedown at any time. Consider finding CC replacements.

I&#x27;m currently making a clone as well. Expect it to be out in a week: <a href="https://github.com/grant/flappy-frog" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;grant&#x2F;flappy-frog</a>

Wow this game is really hard. 20 minutes in and my best score is 3.

There&#x27;s already <a href="https://github.com/C0deH4cker/FlappingBird" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;C0deH4cker&#x2F;FlappingBird</a>

Am I the only one who reacts on the graphics rip-off?<p>Sure, clones are okay in my POV but when it goes to a level where even the graphics are identical to the original...

I think what makes flappy bird hard for beginners is that there isn&#x27;t a practice mode which would let you play in invincible mode.<p>Dying at the first (or maybe second, third, or fourth) pipe makes it hard to get into a rhythm.<p>I considered making a Flappy Bird Practice iOS game, but am concerned about getting the physics right for the work you do with it to be meaningful.

There appears to be a bug where you can get caught in a &quot;death loop&quot; on game start. Click to start the game, but let the bird fall and immediately die. Every subsequent restart of the game will lead to an immediate restart loop when you try to start clicking to play as the intro rises.<p>I&#x27;m using Chrome version 32.0.1700.107.

When you die you have to use the mouse to restart. That is super annoying, I want to keep my hands on space.

Somebody should do a graph of all the clones that will flood the market.<p>I&#x27;ve got twenty bucks that says there will be 50 clones across all platforms within the next 30 days.<p>Having said that, hell, I&#x27;ll give you an upvote. Best of luck to all takers.

I hate it when people mix tabs and spaces<p><a href="https://github.com/ellisonleao/clumsy-bird/blob/master/js/game.js" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;ellisonleao&#x2F;clumsy-bird&#x2F;blob&#x2F;master&#x2F;js&#x2F;ga...</a>

Me too, but mine is for iOS7: <a href="https://github.com/joeblau/FlappyBlock" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;joeblau&#x2F;FlappyBlock</a>.<p>Mine was more of a learning exercise in playing with the iOS7 physics engine.

I took this clone and tweaked it so that pipe gap starts out big and gets narrower as time goes by. Makes a good little coding exercise, and I find it a lot less frustrating to play that way.

I must not be cool because I find this Flappy Bird issue to be utter nonsense. This whole thing (everything relating to Flappy Bird) is asinine and unworthy of anyone&#x27;s attention.

Desired features:<p>* track high score<p>* Use full screen on mobile (or lock the rotation)<p>* friendly mobile URL<p>Edit: Also, not sure what score is compared to &#x27;steps&#x27; or how to increase it.

Are you tempted to add a lot of source code comments, because this is an educational project?

Anyone can share me the physic in Flappy Bird :( I&#x27;m cloning in J2ME

How did this get so many points?

Hitbox detection is off, and the physics don&#x27;t feel nearly as good. There&#x27;s more to flappy bird than a bird moving through pipes.

Is this a joke or did I completely miss the point?