I immediately thought it was that scene when I saw the screenshot, such a bittersweet moment.

Just started it this morning and having fun so far, now I just need someone to make a game in the spirit of Sly Cooper!

Unfortunately multiple sources seem to agree Dong Nguyen has no involvement, which is consistent with the way he originally shut down Flappy Bird due to people spending too much time on it :(

“The Flappy Bird Foundation said it has acquired the official Flappy Bird trademark from Gametech Holdings LLC, a U.S. company that appears to have wrestled the trademark from Nguyen, as well as the rights for the original game and character from Piou Piou vs. Cactus, the mobile game that supposedly originally inspired the Flappy Bird character.”

https://www.ign.com/articles/10-years-after-it-was-pulled-offline-viral-mobile-game-flappy-bird-is-coming-back

And the trademarks were sleazily grabbed from the original creator :/

It’s almost baffling to think we still have mysteries like this so long after the game’s (apparently aborted) release, but it’s really cool to read along with the investigation!

It probably would’ve been useful to include the list of actual games:

“The three games included are: The Wing of Madoola, Firework Thrower Kantaro’s 53 Stations of the Tokaido and Ripple Island.”

Which is terribly underperforming when you consider how many more dogs exist in proximity to humans compared to humans. If a prankster wizard suddenly conjured a few million hippos into homes around the world you can bet they wouldn’t settle for merely snuffing out 50x-70x more humans. On the upside, they’d definitely chomp a lot of people we don’t like too

Ah understood!

I think this news only affects Humble Games but not Humble Bundle, confusingly they are separate but semi-related businesses these days.

It sounds like you’re referring to the National Socialist German Workers’ Party of WWII infamy. People are probably going to assume something else, FYI.

No, the article plainly states what’s going on.

How many Indies have partnered with Sony Music? Is that common?

I suspect you weren’t the only one to be surprised by that!

Sorry to hear that :(

Yay!

I get those two confused all the time too

Who was on MTV Cribs* no less!

*Note: was not on MTV Cribs

I think that one would have to come from Bandai.

I had no idea this started out on HP-UX, I can’t imagine a lot of popular commercial games started out on niche Unixes.

Oh man, you just inspired me to dig through multiple boxes and dust off my Caanoo (and it’s older brother the GP32).