Many people missed out on the hair-pulling, headache-inducing “fun” that Flappy Bird, the game that everybody loved to hate, graced us with before its withdrawal from the App Store. As we are all very aware of, Flappy Bird clones, spin-offs, and God-knows-what have inundated the App Store since then. However, for one Flappy Bird fanatic – Fawn Qiu – these falsities weren’t enough to quench her thirst for that overwhelming sense of frustration that she felt upon playing Flappy Bird for the first time. And the second time. And just about every time thereafter.
So, Ms. Qiu took it upon herself to develop a Flappy Bird substitute that she thought might be up to the task of annoying the shit out of everybody that played it, and created a real-life version of Flappy Bird: Flappy-Bird-In-A-Box.
Her creation was a submission at Tribeca Hacks, an “international series of intensive workshops that brings together content creators and technology specialists to increase understanding and broaden participation in the field of interactive storytelling.” If that euphemistic description doesn’t clarify much, you can see from the video that she basically made it to drive her colleagues insane.
However, it goes without saying that the Game Over chime is a nice touch.
