The once-popular Vietnamese game Flappy Bird is likely to be revived in the near future. It seems that this time it will have something to do with cryptocurrency. However, the project’s founder Dong Nguyen is currently denying this.
Flappy Bird revived after nearly a decade?
As noted by BeInCrypto, on September 13, The Flappy Bird Foundation announced that they would be re-releasing Flappy Bird. Accordingly, the group stated that they had worked with the predecessors to obtain the legal rights to revive Flappy Bird.
The Flappy Bird Foundation said it had purchased the rights to Flappy Bird from Gametech Holdings LLC. Gametech had filed an opposition to Dong Nguyen's Flappy Bird trademark last year and won ownership in January after the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) determined that Dong Nguyen had abandoned the trademark and dismissed his claim.
It is worth noting that there are many signs that the Flappy Bird Foundation revival will involve cryptocurrency and that it will play a Vai when it launches. There have been some hints that the team will Token Issuance on the Solana network (SOL) and develop the game using the usual Play to Earn model.
The site suggests Flappy Bird could be making a comeback.Specifically, in a blog post on September 12, researcher Varun Biniwale found one of the site's pages (which has since been taken down) with information that implied that Flappy Bird would fly higher than ever on Solana as it ascends to Web 3.0. The site added that it would be a Web 3 game, with a Play to Earn model, and also mentioned an Airdrop.
Not only that, according to Biniwale, the screen showing the game’s prototype also mentions a “FLAP Token” on the Telegram-linked The Open Network (TON) blockchain. Biniwale points to the person behind the game as Michael Roberts, Studio Director at 1208 Production, who wrote on LinkedIn that he “was the pioneer for the return of Flappy Bird.”
However, on September 15, Dong Nguyen posted on the X platform for the first time since 2017. In the tweet, he said he was not selling anything, he was not involved in the game, and he did not support cryptocurrency. It seems that the dispute over Flappy Bird is still ongoing and the revival of Flappy Bird is still a mystery.
Previously, Dong Nguyen had distanced himself from the group that had just announced that they would revive the game after a decade of hiatus. In other words, the original creator of Flappy Bird denied that the game was being revived and also hinted at a connection to cryptocurrency.
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