Bear in mind Flappy Chook? It is again, in expanded kind. The sport so addictive it brought on its creator to destroy it for concern of what he’d unleashed on the world is making a return, and it is hitting browsers this 12 months, with a cellular model to observe in 2025.
Per a brand new official web site for the little yellow chook and its infuriating pipe-based gameplay, Flappy Chook shall be accessible for iOS and Android, in addition to browsers. Moderately confusingly, the sport’s Linktree web page says it will be playable “completely on Telegram”.
An outline on the location claims that Flappy Chook is “refreshed, reinvigorated, and able to soar once more”, and that this may certainly be “the official Flappy Chook recreation”, so this is not a kind of low cost imitators that sprang up within the wake of the unique’s disappearance.
After all, this being a 2024 revival of Flappy Chook, you’ll be able to anticipate all the same old trendy cellular recreation trappings. The relaunched model of the sport will come full with “new recreation modes, characters, development, and big multiplayer challenges”, in response to a press launch.
These modes embrace a basketball-based mode through which you information the lil’ chook by hoops, in addition to an honest-to-goodness Flappy Chook battle royale (no, not that one).
Stated press launch additionally confirms that the browser-based variations of Flappy Chook, which embrace a model for cellular net browsers, will launch this fall, and that the iOS and Android variations will observe subsequent 12 months.
It appears like authentic Flappy Chook creator Dong Nguyen will not be concerned with this revival. As an alternative, the group spearheading the sport’s relaunch calls itself Flappy Chook Basis, and the group says it’ll “revamp the sport’s ecosystem” whereas retaining the “familiarity of the sport design” loved world wide.
The unique Flappy Chook was launched in 2013, however its meteoric rise to fame got here in 2014, at which level it gained hundreds of thousands of gamers and attained the primary spot within the iOS obtain charts.
Nonetheless, simply a few weeks after its sudden surge in recognition, creator Dong Nguyen took the sport down, claiming he could not “take this anymore” (referring to the sport’s overexposure).
No matter Nguyen might consider Flappy Chook, it appears Flappy Chook Basis disagrees, and that is why you’ll play Flappy Chook as soon as once more in your browser this 12 months and in your telephone subsequent 12 months. Keep tuned for extra.