I’ll leave you to draw your own conclusions about what this says about the mobile gaming world in early 2014. Here are the 95 iOS games from the last day chasing that dream. In the UK, those four are all in the top 10. But at the time of writing, four of the top five free iPhone games in the US App Store fall into the Flappy genre – Flappy Wings, Hoppy Frog, Flying Cyrus - Wrecking Ball and Splashy Fish. The vast majority of these will sink without trace, of course. Publishing on Newgrounds is part of teaching them how they could monetise their games. And we started with a modified Flappy Bird game, with some funny elements. Casper Darling, Matthew Porretta, and the Remedy universe (while learning how to art). After scooting through them, I’ve been able to identify 95 that are obvious Flappy Bird-inspired games. The delightful snack appears to have originated from a thread on Tumblr (the screenshot is on MEL ’s piece ), starting with a user named bighuge, who says, pissy shitties is when you mix pepsi and popcorn to create a rich and smooth treat, excellent for enjoying a movie with friends. Flappy Bat is the first game in a series of a local community project to teach kids at 10 years+ how to program games. Today, when I launched my RSS reader, there were 293 new iOS games released since 5am yesterday morning. I do the same thing for Google Play from a different source. Every morning, I swipe my way through RSS feeds – pulled from the Appshopper website – of every major App Store category, as part of the research for the monthly Best iPhone and iPad Apps feature. Im enjoying the longevity of tumblrs recontextualization style of humor.
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