Flappy Bird MMO

http://69.164.192.211/flappy.html

by anonymousab • 12 years ago

113 58 12 years ago

69.164.192.211

lsiunsuex• 12 years ago

Now that's a cool spin on this.

Any chance sharing the server side? Curious how something like that is done.

anilgulecha• 12 years ago

Yup.. I'd like to see the code which handles these concurrent connections.

binocarlos• 12 years ago

Wow that is nicely done - front page HN - ~700 concurrent users and I'm having fun playing! Good Work!

emhart• 12 years ago

I have generally ignored this flappy bird malarkey, but this sucked me right in. Nicely done!

Uberphallus• 12 years ago

Not working on Firefox nor Chrome on Win7, is it slammed by traffic?

lectrick• 12 years ago

Not working as of 8:23 AM EST on Chrome

oneeyedpigeon3• 12 years ago

Not working as of 14:12 GMT on Chrome either ;)

Ronsenshi• 12 years ago

Still not working. HN killed its node.js server.

philliphaydon• 12 years ago

lol It's so slow with 800 players I can't even see where my bird is.

Robadob• 12 years ago

It was much more reactive at ~200 players, I was playing around modifying the javascript to remove collision detection (there's a method with a long ternary statement that ends ? !1 : !0, change the both to !1) etc until it hit ~700 users and started dying for me (presumably when it hit hacker news).

swah• 12 years ago

Javascript games = cheating?

LinaLauneBaer2• 12 years ago

I am at 200. Who can catch me? :) https://www.dropbox.com/s/gnemb53o287ae0b/Screen%20Shot%2020...

deletes2• 12 years ago

Not to invalidate your achievement, but with the current gameplay all it takes to weight down the spacebar, and wait.

A score of 200 would be much more impressive.

LinaLauneBaer2• 12 years ago

That's why I wrote "who can catch" me and not "who can beat me?".

anonymousab• 12 years ago

Sorry, the text field got stripped by a faulty browser plugin.

I found this on 4chan. The creator said to go ahead and post it elsewhere but didn't seem interested in sharing the source or anything.

Though I'd imagine this will be backlinked at some point.

Antwan• 12 years ago

Down.

HN effect

deletes2• 12 years ago

The gameplay would be more interesting if, instead of progressing even if you don't jump trough one pipe( like now ), you would always start from the beginning. Then the bird population would get more and more sparse as you progress; with a possible checkpoint system.

loceng3• 12 years ago

What are the copyright issues involved with this?

People get upset about Zynga and other big game companies cloning games, yet this 'clone' is a direct copy of graphics, etc. - minus adding multi-player capability.

Not a single mention of this in this thread either at the time of posting this comment.

squintychino• 12 years ago

The original creator gave up $50k/day and took the #1 game off the market. If he had no interest in continuing to make money off of this game, why would he be interested in pursuing legal action against someone? He'd probably just withdraw the lawsuit when it got too complicated, as that seems to be his M.O.

downandout2• 12 years ago

Agreed. He is incredibly unlikely to pursue anyone and has actually given a few of the knockoffs his blessing. You're wrong on one point though...the $50k/day isn't going anywhere. The ads are still active on 100M+ installs. He is still raking in cash and will until people stop opening the game on their devices.

okamiueru• 12 years ago

This sound as intelligent as "You shouldn't drink and drive, because you can get a big ticket".

loceng3• 12 years ago

Sorry but how do your assumptions to attempt to justify this make copyright infringement OK?

corresation• 12 years ago

The original creator gave up $50k/day and took the #1 game off the market.

Why do people think he gave up $50k/day? The hundred million or so installs are still out there. The advertising account is still active and in full effect. It is entirely possible he is making even more from the controversy.

Please do not lump me in with the jealous haters who have made the whole flappy bird thing so annoying (jealousy is tiring and obvious, and it has fueled 98% of the commentary on this) -- I applaud him for what he has done. But there is a lot of fiction surrounding this story.

shawabawa3• 12 years ago

He'd probably just withdraw the lawsuit when it got too complicated, as that seems to be his M.O.

I agree with your point but this makes you sound like a complete asshole. Just because you can't imagine giving up $50k/day doesn't mean that he's weak or stupid for doing it (which is the implication I get from this sentence).

Vaskivo• 12 years ago

MY GOD! Why is everyone so obcessed with the 50k/day. It's his game and he can do with it whatever he wants! Just because it earns him a lot of money and it is the #1 game in the app stores it doesn't make him obligated to make the choices you would make.

Maybe taking it off the market is a stupid decision (which I'm in no position to comment, as the context is a bit too complex). There are guys that accept to be kicked in the nuts for a youtube video. It's stupid, but it's their nuts. They can do whatever they want with it.

With that said. While IMO it's ok to do this king of thing, the guy still has it's copyright. By your logic "I don't steal because I may be arrested" is a valid thought. It's not. You shouldn't steal because it's WRONG!

tsieling• 12 years ago

Ownership of content doesn't require a monetary interest, it can be about wanting to control how that content is used.

And wow, nice angry sting on the guy. Must really burn to see someone hit success like that and not care about it.

eXpl0it3r2• 12 years ago

"Doesn't generate money anymore", "Won't sue me", etc. those are all not in the slightest reasons to infringe copyright. In fact there are never reasons to do so.

The only reason why people are doing so at the moment is because they will get upvoted and retweeted because it's Flappy Bird.

MatthiasP• 12 years ago

IF there are copyright issues, then they are only with Nintendo.

oneeyedpigeon3• 12 years ago

AFAIK the assets are all original, so there ARE copyright issues and they AREN'T with Nintendo.

eXpl0it3r2• 12 years ago

So as long as one uses things that might already have infringed copyright, it's okay to do so?

I strongly disagree. If there's a problem it's the (allegedly) original copyright holder and the (allegedly) copyright violator's problem. This does not allow others to copy it, just because it's currently viral.

MichaelTieso• 12 years ago

This is actually pretty clever and one of the better remakes that I've seen around. Nice job on this.

Oculus• 12 years ago

Seems to not be working for me, is the server down?

eviluncle• 12 years ago

it's getting HN hammered, there are ~600 players concurrently playing right now.

XorNot• 12 years ago

Is the responsiveness of this actually the original Flappy Bird responsiveness? I'm assuming no, because good lord it's terrible.

Blara• 12 years ago

it's back

codeulike2• 12 years ago

The 'bubble' that it shows around the bird really messes with my sense of collision detection.

codeulike2• 12 years ago

It just changed so that the pipes have a bigger gap, its pretty fun now, you can really race people. Someone called 'flappy swag' was just ahead of me ...

nmeofthestate2• 12 years ago

I'm going to write a Flappy Bird text adventure, where you play a desperate attention-grabbing software developer.

The aim of the game is to get onto the HN front page by in some way leveraging Flappy Bird fever.

(not a dig at this specific example - this one is quite cool)

visakanv2• 12 years ago

Extra credit if you kill the game just as it starts to get popular.

deluvas• 12 years ago

I know, right? Atleast he wrote a notice:

Sorry guys, I can't handle the pressure. Just kidding. Server will be back in a few hours (about 8 hours or so).

prottmann2• 12 years ago

And i will write a post about playing the flappy bird adventure ;-)

nmeofthestate2• 12 years ago

Flappy Bird Text Adventure By The Numbers (medium.com) [300 votes]

Why Can't I Be a Female Hacker in Flappy Bird Text Adventure? (blogspot.com) [500000 votes] [100000 comments]

gauravpandey2• 12 years ago

What is with "The Day We Fight Back"? Anonymous group?

gauravpandey2• 12 years ago

Got it.. http://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/1xm761/we_are_the_day_...

caiob• 12 years ago

Best 404 ever. ha!

prottmann2• 12 years ago

New header title: "The Day We Flappy Back" !

beratozay• 12 years ago

asd

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