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Yeah, I agree. From the article: "currently, there’s only one “Flappy Bird” knock-off in the top 20 on the iTunes App Store" Hard to take an article seriousl

Yeah, I agree. From the article: "currently, there’s only one “Flappy Bird” knock-off in the top 20 on the iTunes App Store" Hard to take an article seriously when it unironically and somewhat derisively references Flappy Bird knock-offs considering Flappy Bird itself is a pretty direct knock-off of Piou Piou: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=air.pioupiou&hl=en https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=air.pioupiou&h... Which itself is more arguably a knock-off of Helicopter Game, which is a dumbed down 1 button linear-rails horizontal version of Lunar Lander... and so on.

Jare 13y ago
I believe PiouPiou (the app and the website they put up) was released in February 2014 and their story of being ripped off by Flappy Bird is just a shameless lie for people who don't check dates.
- georgemcbay 13y ago
  If that's true they also either hacked YouTube or created a time machine so they could go back to 2010 and post this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MpxmqejpR0Q https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MpxmqejpR0Q
- bertil 13y ago
  I’ve worked for one of the developers of Piou-Piou. The game was released in 2010, didn’t meet much success at the time, and like a handful of games from the same group was discontinued. The recent video was published after heated discussion on how Flappy Bird ripped them off (during which I wrote to them it was unlikely -- not sure they agree, to this day). They also made a handful of games that were successful, several that went through very public controversy about being copied from someone else; several that have been stolen quite blatantly (with the original developers nicknames in the function calls). That cycle hasn't stopped there: reverse-engineered a game for cheap, etc. I won’t give details because I don’t like talking to lawyers, but all was as transparent as those things can be. I’ll say here what I said then: if someone steals from you, there's always a slight difference that could be an improvement, take that; otherwise, every game has its own history. Learn and let it be.
- oneeyedpigeon 13y ago
  I've lost count of the number of different titles that Flappy Bird is supposedly a rip-off of.

Jare 13y ago

I believe PiouPiou (the app and the website they put up) was released in February 2014 and their story of being ripped off by Flappy Bird is just a shameless lie for people who don't check dates.

georgemcbay 13y ago
If that's true they also either hacked YouTube or created a time machine so they could go back to 2010 and post this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MpxmqejpR0Q https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MpxmqejpR0Q
bertil 13y ago
I’ve worked for one of the developers of Piou-Piou. The game was released in 2010, didn’t meet much success at the time, and like a handful of games from the same group was discontinued. The recent video was published after heated discussion on how Flappy Bird ripped them off (during which I wrote to them it was unlikely -- not sure they agree, to this day). They also made a handful of games that were successful, several that went through very public controversy about being copied from someone else; several that have been stolen quite blatantly (with the original developers nicknames in the function calls). That cycle hasn't stopped there: reverse-engineered a game for cheap, etc. I won’t give details because I don’t like talking to lawyers, but all was as transparent as those things can be. I’ll say here what I said then: if someone steals from you, there's always a slight difference that could be an improvement, take that; otherwise, every game has its own history. Learn and let it be.
oneeyedpigeon 13y ago
I've lost count of the number of different titles that Flappy Bird is supposedly a rip-off of.