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I think these are the best set of flappy bird clones that have come out yet (except perhaps the flappy bird orbital game). Admittedly, only a couple of them tr
by eric_h 13y ago
I think these are the best set of flappy bird clones that have come out yet (except perhaps the flappy bird orbital game).
Admittedly, only a couple of them truly qualify for that title (annoyingly difficult gravity games with stupid simple controls), but I think they all adhere to the same theme - extremely simple game ideas that are nevertheless compelling.
In the Atari-NES era, technical constraints forced this style of game design upon developers, and they (well, some of them) still produced compelling games by focusing on the details of these simple interactions. There are admittedly somewhat similar constraints on this particular canvas (ahem) but I believe the tools have evolved so much that you can spend a lot more time on the mechanics, rather than fitting it into RAM (hence, 10 rather polished 8-bit style games in 10 weeks).
I think it's good to get back to basics. I played all 10 games, and I enjoyed it (though the typing game was downright cruel; it's amazing how difficult it is to read and understand a misspelled word, then type it misspelled, let alone the gibberish). Well done.