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{"id":673,"date":"2017-10-24T16:56:14","date_gmt":"2017-10-24T20:56:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.weskerrspanish1022015.com\/?p=43"},"modified":"2017-10-24T16:56:14","modified_gmt":"2017-10-24T20:56:14","slug":"angry-bird-cloning-this-generations-viral-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/courses.digitaldavidson.net\/dig101-2017\/2017\/10\/24\/angry-bird-cloning-this-generations-viral-game\/","title":{"rendered":"Angry Bird: Cloning this Generation\u2019s \u201cViral Game\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Tap the screen to fly. Do nothing and quickly feel the effects of gravity. Send the poor animal through as many Mario-like pipes before you will inevitably fail and see its death. This was the basis for the most viral video game that had ever been seen. Flappy Bird, originally released in 2013 by Nguyen Dong, swelled in popularity near the end of the the year. The simplistic gameplay, addicting nature, and easiness of attainability allowed it to reach #1 on Apple\u2019s free app rankings. Unfortunately, Dong <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/sciencetech\/article-2556818\/Flappy-Bird-gone-forever-Games-creator-pulled-app-addictive-product.html.\">removed the game<\/a> from the App Store in February of 2014, since all the attention he obtained from its success \u201cruined his simple life\u201d. As a result, since the game was already so popular, other people began to clone the game and put countless other versions of the same thing on the App Store and the Internet, including a variation where you are <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">a sperm<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. See for yourself in this video.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><iframe width=\"525\" height=\"295\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/NdXnvmuB23Y?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">As Dr. Sample points out in his work regarding code in video games, we see that \u201ccode\u201d does not just refer to the lines of gibberish typed down by pizza-eating millennials. It \u00a0also concerns the text, visuals, sounds, and other elements. As Sample put it, \u201cit is a mistake to think about code as always and only instructions to a computer\u201d. The &#8220;code&#8221; for the majority of the Flappy Bird clones employs the same flying-like controls for each game, with similar variations of shape, color, and presentation. Should doing this be fair, or is it like cheating? Rockstar Games, for example, frowns upon players when they \u201cprepare derivative works\u201d on GTA, which is kind of like what is going on here. \u00a0In my opinion, people should not really be allowed to copy a game and earn money off of it like what many \u201csmart\u201d developers did with this sensation. If you do this, you are quite literally \u201cstealing\u201d the code and efforts of one\u2019s original work to make yourself successful , which is what unfortunately happened way too often in the age of Flappy Bird.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Sources:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Griffiths, Sarah. \u201cFlappy Bird Is &#8216;Gone Forever&#8217;.\u201d DailyMail.com, Associated Newspapers, Ltd., 11 Feb. 2014, <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/sciencetech\/article-2556818\/Flappy-Bird-gone-forever-Games-creator-pulled-app-addictive-product.html\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">www.dailymail.co.uk\/sciencetech\/article-2556818\/Flappy-Bird-gone-forever-Games-creator-pulled-app-addictive-product.html<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Sample, Mark. \u201cCode.\u201d <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Debugging Game History: A Critical Lexicon<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, MIT Press, 2016, pp. 53\u201362. <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Dropbox<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dropbox.com\/s\/70m9jnr0oztb78p\/Sample%20-%20Code%20(2016).pdf?dl=0\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">www.dropbox.com\/s\/70m9jnr0oztb78p\/Sample%20-%20Code%20(2016).pdf?dl=0<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cThe MANY Clones of Flappy Bird.\u201d YouTube, Google, 21 Feb. 2014, www.youtube.com\/watch?v=NdXnvmuB23Y&amp;t=21s.<\/span><\/p>\n\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\"><em>Posted from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.weskerrspanish1022015.com\/uncategorized\/angry-bird-cloning-this-generations-viral-game\/\">My blog<\/a> by <a href=\"https:\/\/courses.digitaldavidson.net\/dig101-2017\/author\/0\/\" title=\"Read other posts by Wes K.\">Wes K.<\/a><\/em><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tap the screen to fly. 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Flappy Bird, originally released in 2013 by Nguyen &hellip; <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.weskerrspanish1022015.com\/uncategorized\/angry-bird-cloning-this-generations-viral-game\/\">Continue reading<span> &#8220;Angry Bird: Cloning this Generation&rsquo;s &ldquo;Viral Game&rdquo;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":168,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-673","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-group-b"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p95kZR-aR","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.digitaldavidson.net\/dig101-2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/673","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.digitaldavidson.net\/dig101-2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.digitaldavidson.net\/dig101-2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.digitaldavidson.net\/dig101-2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/168"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.digitaldavidson.net\/dig101-2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=673"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/courses.digitaldavidson.net\/dig101-2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/673\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":674,"href":"https:\/\/courses.digitaldavidson.net\/dig101-2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/673\/revisions\/674"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.digitaldavidson.net\/dig101-2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=673"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.digitaldavidson.net\/dig101-2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=673"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.digitaldavidson.net\/dig101-2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=673"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}