Hi,
. I wonder how long it'll take for the makers of flappy bird to get seriously pissed...

Hi.
so the truth comes out at last.
On the news the rumor simply was that after making real cash, and getting approached by some big companies to market things, get him millions he decided he didn't want it and buggered off taking his game with him.
Its interesting what the offline and online media actually say vastly different to eachother.

A recent quote from Nintendo claimed they never contacted Nguyễn (the developer).  They might have turned around and contacted him after that quote though, so who knows.  I had been reading up on the drama surrounding this game just before, and during, the time he took it down from the app store.  I forget the name of the original game, but his flappy bird game was a direct duplicate except for the pipe graphics and sound he stole directly from Mario brothers.  It's funny that to make his stolen game seem less stolen, he redecorated it with stolen art and sound, haha!  Genius.

Thank you.
Finally, how do I know this game.

Sorry for my english. Not is my language.

Hi.
I think you'll need BGT to play the game. You don't need to pay, sinse the paied version only is for developers, who need to compile a game, so BGT is not needed to run their games.

I got 10 as a high score! YEYAHYEAH!

woo, just got a score of 14. I think the hardest level was 6. The rhythm got like about twice as fast on that level then slowed back down. Still curious as to how it was calculated; I'll look in the bgt file.
Edit: it's all random, heh.

btw Aprone, apparently the developer asked for Flappy bird to be removed from the app store because he realized that the addiction the game was causing was becoming detrimental to people instead of beneficial. According to a wikipedia article I read (I know that Wikipedia articles can be uncredible, but they actually have citations for this), he did not remove the game for any legal reasons. He does concede that it is remarkably similar to another game in 2011 about birds vs cacti, but he claims to not have known anything about it when asked. He also says that the pipe graphics, though they look remarkably similar to the Mario pipe graphics, were hand-drawn. The article did not mention the sound effects, but it did say that the rumors that Nintendo asked him to remove the game due to plagiarism of its Mario game is untrue.

Agreed KeyIsFull.  I may have been misunderstood earlier.  Legal reasons were not why he took the game down, it was from the barrage of negative comments and messages he was receiving from the game.  Many of those were people upset that he was making money from a stolen idea, stolen artwork, and stolen sounds.  Apparently he even had death threats... hehe, I know the feeling. 

Ghost, the death sounds as well as the majority of the flappy bird sounds have been added. The update is pretty much ready to release, but i just have a few miner things to sort out. This update adds pipes that move up or down from level to level, a redesign of how the game gets more difficult as the levels go on, few bug fixes, and as has been said the sounds have been added. Should be out soon.

I am happy to announce that I am releasing this as a full version, as I think the majority of the bugs are squashed, thanks too good help and feedback from Deng and friends.
Changes From Beta 1.1 - 1.0
- Put in all the Flappy Bird sounds, and put all the sounds in their own folder.
- put the version number in the window name.
- Added a high score function.
- Redesigned the game to make it more difficult and less buggy
- Pipes now move up and down.

Hope you enjoy.

well, with the new version, my high score is 8. I'll work on doing better.