Friday, March 20, 2020

Recreate Flappy Bird’s flight mechanic | @Raspberry_Pi #PiDay #RaspberryPi

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Fun project to work on if you’re stuck indoors! From Raspberry Pi Foundation blog, via last year’s issue 29 of Wireframe magazine.

Flappy Bird was released by programmer Dong Nguyen in 2013, and made use of a straightforward game mechanic to create an addictive hit. Tapping the screen provided ‘lift’ to the main character, which is used strategically to navigate through a series of moving pipes. A point is scored for each pipe successfully passed. The idea proved so addictive that Nguyen eventually regretted his creation and removed it from the Google and Apple app stores. In this article, I’ll show you how to recreate this simple yet time-consuming game, using Python and Pygame Zero.

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