It has been a week since the founder of the popular Indie game developer Dong Nguyen pulled the game off the iOS and Android app store. After that, hundreds of Flappy Bird spin-offs surfaced on both app stores. Well, it appears that both companies have decided to stop lappy-esque games decimating Flappy Bird’s popularity charts.
The first incident to indicate this was originally spotted on Twitter where Mind Juice Media’s Ken Carpenter’s “Flappy Dragon” — Flappy Bird mock up– got rejected for infringing DotGear studios copyrights of this app.
This is just not my fucking week: Rejected. “We found your app name attempts to leverage a popular app.” Which app? FB doesn’t exist!?!?!
— Ken Carpenter (@MindJuiceMedia) February 15, 2014
In addition, another popular Flappy Bird mock up has recently changed its name to “Jumpy Bee” thus avoiding being kicked out from the app store. It’s highly probable that Google and Apple are reaching to the folks behind the Flappy Bird mock ups already in the app store, in order to change the name of their app.
Both companies have yet to comment on the particular event. If we hear anything we’ll let you people know immediately.
Have you guys played any Flappy Bird alternatives? If yes, let us know of your impressions and if the two tech giants are doing the right thing by rejecting FB mock apps in the comments below.
Update: After running the article, we started being hit up on Twitter from other devs who have had similar issues. @kevincbaker was pulled 2 ours after it was uploaded and after 70K downloads. It was skinned a little more and uploaded again. While the game has a similar name, his is all about squishing the some birds with the two pipes. Flatty Birds can be found on the Play Store for now.
