The Flappy Bird comeback announced earlier this month seemed a little unfortunate beneath the surface. “A new team of passionate fans committed to sharing the game with the world” sounds innocuous enough, but there was no overlooking the complete lack of involvement on the part of creator Dong Nguyen, and the group’s acquisition of the Flappy Bird trademark had, as senior editor Rich Stanton put it at the time, “a slight whiff of skullduggery”: Legally copacetic, but maybe a little dodgy.
Shortly thereafter questions about the resurrected game being an NFT joint floated to the surface, which the Flappy Bird Foundation, as the group is known, did not address in a “clear the air” post on Twitter last week, which focused exclusively on the trademark acquisition. Now it has, sort of, although honestly I’m just more confused than ever: In a new tweet, the Flappy Bird…
