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.”

Ah understood!

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

Google’s dream of hijacking an open standard (on Android at least) is achieved :/

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.

Oh dear god, we live in the worst timeline.

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!

Now I miss my Nokia N9 :(

Sorry to hear that :(

Google unfortunately locks down the RCS api’s in Android so that only the system messaging app (basically just Google Messages these days) can use them, so I don’t think any independent messaging apps can integrate RCS at all :/

Yay!

I get those two confused all the time too

Unfortunately I haven’t run across any either :/ Handwriting detection for even a single language/script can be very complicated to implement so I understand why it’s rare in open-source keyboard options, but I’ll keep an eye out just in case I find one.