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Flappy Bird’s original creator says he has nothing to do with the new game

This is not my beautiful Flappy Bird.

But while the group has been framing it as the triumphant return of a classic mobile game, Flappy Bird’ s original developer, Dong Nguyen isn’t calling it a comeback — in fact, he says he’s not involved at all. this morning, saying he didn’t “sell anything.” The Flappy Bird Foundation wrote in the announcement it shared with press last week that it had “acquired the rights from Gametech Holdings, LLC,” which had secured the trademark from Nguyen, but it doesn’t appear as though that was the result of any dealings between him and the group. One page that seems to have been removed (and is archived here) said Flappy Bird will “fly higher than ever on Solana as it soars into web 3.0,” and invited players to “build, create, play and stake to own.”

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