At a time when the gaming industry is enjoying a glut of remakes and remasters, like the recently-announced The Last of Us remake, it might sometimes feel like the things that consumers actually want get a little lost in the excitement. Thankfully, the people have spoken, and what they want is more Flappy Bird. Well, one person at least.
It might feel a little odd to be thinking about Flappy Bird here in 2021, but it's hard to deny the impact of 2014's bizarrely popular mobile game. The myriad Flappy Bird clones speak for themselves, and rumor had it that at its peak it was raking in $50,000 a day on the App Store, before being taken down by its own developer.
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One person hasn't forgotten about the game, and that is Butterfly Network developer Neil Sardesai. Sardesai, who enjoys tinkering with MacOS and its Appkit on the side of his usual job as an iOS engineer, recently took to Twitter to showcase how he'd managed to fit a Flappy Bird developed with PlayCanvas into a single push notification, allowing the user to play it entirely inside the notification itself.
This isn't the first time Sardesai has bent the MacOS UI to his will, either: previous projects of his include a dinosaur-themed infinite runner that sits in the menu bar and a version of Snake utilizing the switches used to toggle options on and off. His website also features icon packs and small but charming UI add-ons for Mac and iPhone.
This resurrection of Flappy Bird was met with general positivity, especially considering the original developer's movement onward to pastures new, though one Twitter user did semi-jokingly comment, "Did you just reinvent flash banner adverts for native desktops?"
Luckily for them, however, Sardesai is keeping his little project to himself for now. It's not known yet what his next undertaking is going to be, but if it turns out to be possible to play Doom in a notification too, everyone will know who to thank.