‘Flappy Bird’ Is Making a Crypto Gaming Push After All

Viral cell sport Flappy Chicken nonetheless has plans forward within the crypto world, based on a weblog put up from the Flappy Chicken Basis, the entity that acquired the smash cell sport’s trademark and introduced it again through Telegram final 12 months. 

The sport’s relaunch on Telegram got here with a play-to-earn mining marketing campaign for an eventual FLAP token on The Open Community (TON). Nonetheless, the way forward for these plans grew to become unsure when its Telegram mining part ended with no token airdrop this spring, and the sport’s Android relaunch in April got here and not using a crypto connection. 

Now although, the Flappy Chicken Basis says that Flappy Chicken will once more “take flight in Web3.” 

“Flappy Chicken Basis will proceed its mandate to discover and innovate on the planet of Web3 IP and gaming,” the Basis wrote.

“Our final imaginative and prescient is to construct an ecosystem housing the perfect components of the standard gaming area, IP licensing, and all the advantages of Web3 to create a world Flappy Chicken model for the neighborhood of followers and gamers.” 

For Flappy Chicken, meaning a brand new Web3 model of the sport with aggressive gameplay, whereas additionally letting gamers earn rewards—although no particular point out of a token is made within the newest announcement. A consultant for the Flappy Chicken Basis didn’t instantly reply to Decrypt’s request for remark.

Following the announcement, the official X account of Base—Coinbase’s Ethereum layer-2 community—replied with a screenshot of the “Web3 IP protocol launches, bringing the model on-chain” bit from the sport’s roadmap, full with emoji eyes. Flappy Chicken then shared that X put up with its Telegram neighborhood, maybe signaling collaborative plans forward… or a minimum of stoking hypothesis from curious followers.

The Basis additionally mentions the launch of an IP protocol, bringing Flappy Chicken property on-chain, however specifics on which blockchain or property weren’t supplied.

The sport, which asks customers to navigate a flying fowl by a sequence of scrolling pipes or tubes, first launched and went viral in early 2014. Quickly after, the sport’s creator Dong Nguyen abruptly pulled the sport from app shops, expressing guilt over its addictive maintain on gamers.

When it returned final 12 months, Nguyen notably broke a seven-year X hiatus to sentence the sport’s crypto launch.

Others have been essential of the sport’s connection to blockchain too, main the Flappy Chicken Basis and its subsidiary Flappy Chicken Publishing to make very clear that its latest Epic Video games Retailer for Android launch wouldn’t have any crypto connections. 

“The Flappy Chicken app out there on Epic Video games Retailer won’t ever have any Web3 parts, and is supported solely by adverts and in-app purchases,” a assertion concerning the sport’s launch learn. 

And whereas the sport will discover Web3 crossovers, followers who don’t want to use the blockchain parts don’t have to.

“We additionally acknowledge that there are lots of Flappy Chicken followers new and O.G. that simply need to flap on with out partaking in Web3. We hear you,” the put up reads. “Should you desire to not interact with Web3 options, Flappy Chicken Publishing, the inspiration’s licensee and Web2 gaming writer, will at all times offer you conventional Web2 video games and experiences.”

A timeline for Flappy Chicken’s new Web3 initiatives was not supplied.

Edited by Andrew Hayward