The Flappy Bird sequel Swing Copters gets a release date, and it is this week. After the run away success of Flappy Bird on iOS and Android, creator Don Nguyen pulled down the game from the iOS App Store and Google Play store even though it was raking in over $50k a day according to The Verge . The only information the public received was from a series of tweets from the developer that read:
“I am sorry ‘Flappy Bird’ users, 22 hours from now, I will take ‘Flappy Bird’ down. I cannot take this anymore.”
“It is not anything related to legal issues. I just cannot keep it anymore.”
“I also don’t sell ‘Flappy Bird’, please don’t ask.”
“And I still make games.”
Nguyen was the target of a great deal of internet hate for what many claimed was a derivative game, but even so Flappy Bird was an absolute success for Nguyen.
The game sold through in astounding numbers before the take down and even after the game disappeared from the digital store fronts, savvy iPhone owners took to eBay to sell their phones with Flappy Bird installed . Swing Copters is the next release for the indie developer and Touch Arcade is reporting that the game will have a release date of this Thursday, August 21.
At one point, Nguyen teased gamers with a screenshot of the next game he had in development which our own Kevin Bostic covered . While Swing Copters is obviously not the game teased in the screenshot, it looks to have the elements we would expect from a Flappy Bird sequel.
Along with a gameplay trailer which you can view above, Swing Copters seems to be more difficult than Flappy Bird. The helicopter beanie wearing character swings from side to side as you tap on the screen to desperately control his direction. While going through openings may be hard enough, adding the swinging hammers takes the difficulty to truly epic levels. However, from the gameplay video it appears as if the “one more try” quality of Flappy Bird is still intact.
Swing Copters will release for free on August 21. A single in app purchase of $0.99 will be available to remove the ads that look fairly unobtrusive.