'Flappy Chicken' Is Making a Crypto Gaming Push After All – Decrypt

Viral cell sport Flappy Chicken nonetheless has plans forward within the crypto world, in line with a weblog submit from the Flappy Chicken Basis, the entity that acquired the smash cell sport’s trademark and introduced it again by way of Telegram final yr. 

The sport’s relaunch on Telegram got here with a play-to-earn mining marketing campaign for an eventual FLAP token on The Open Community (TON). Nevertheless, the way forward for these plans grew to become unsure when its Telegram mining part ended with no token airdrop this spring, and the sport’s Android relaunch in April got here with no crypto connection. 

Now although, the Flappy Chicken Basis says that Flappy Chicken will once more “take flight in Web3.” 

“Flappy Chicken Basis will proceed its mandate to discover and innovate on the earth of Web3 IP and gaming,” the Basis wrote.

“Our final imaginative and prescient is to construct an ecosystem housing one of the best elements of the standard gaming area, IP licensing, and all the advantages of Web3 to create a world Flappy Chicken model for the group of followers and gamers.” 

For Flappy Chicken, meaning a brand new Web3 model of the sport with aggressive gameplay, whereas additionally letting gamers earn rewards—although no particular point out of a token is made within the newest announcement. A consultant for the Flappy Chicken Basis didn’t instantly reply to Decrypt’s request for remark.

Following the announcement, the official X account of Base—Coinbase’s Ethereum layer-2 community—replied with a screenshot of the “Web3 IP protocol launches, bringing the model on-chain” bit from the sport’s roadmap, full with emoji eyes. Flappy Chicken then shared that X submit with its Telegram group, maybe signaling collaborative plans forward… or at the very least stoking hypothesis from curious followers.

The Basis additionally mentions the launch of an IP protocol, bringing Flappy Chicken belongings on-chain, however specifics on which blockchain or belongings weren’t supplied.

The sport, which asks customers to navigate a flying chicken by way of a collection of scrolling pipes or tubes, first launched and went viral in early 2014. Quickly after, the sport’s creator Dong Nguyen abruptly pulled the sport from app shops, expressing guilt over its addictive maintain on gamers.

When it returned final yr, Nguyen notably broke a seven-year X hiatus to sentence the sport’s crypto launch.

Others have been crucial of the sport’s connection to blockchain too, main the Flappy Chicken Basis and its subsidiary Flappy Chicken Publishing to make very clear that its latest Epic Video games Retailer for Android launch wouldn’t have any crypto connections. 

“The Flappy Chicken app out there on Epic Video games Retailer won’t ever have any Web3 components, and is supported solely by advertisements and in-app purchases,” a assertion in regards to the sport’s launch learn. 

And whereas the sport will discover Web3 crossovers, followers who don’t want to use the blockchain parts don’t must.

“We additionally acknowledge that there are lots of Flappy Chicken followers new and O.G. that simply wish to flap on with out participating in Web3. We hear you,” the submit reads. “For those who want to not have interaction with Web3 options, Flappy Chicken Publishing, the muse’s licensee and Web2 gaming writer, will at all times give you conventional Web2 video games and experiences.”

A timeline for Flappy Chicken’s new Web3 initiatives was not supplied.

Edited by Andrew Hayward