Game Design & Flappy BirdsFLAPPY BIRDS – THE STORY AND DEVELOPMENT

Creator• Dong Nguyen

About Vietnam and the Games Industry

The Success of Flappy Birds!• The minimalist pipe-avoidance video

game that scorched to the top of the iPhone free game rankings earlier this year was created in a few days by its creator.

• It was earning a reported $50,000 a day

• The idea is quite simple – Press Spacebar or touch the screen to get the bird to flap and avoid pipes that keep flying past!

About the Creator of Flappy Birds

• Dong Nguyen (Nguyễn Hà Đông, born 1985) is a Vietnamese  video game developer.

• His most successful game is  FLAPPY BIRD which was one of the top free games in Apple and Android platform.

• After the game’s huge success, he announced on Twitter that he was “shutting down” the game as he "couldn't come up with its popularity".

• He has also made many other games that are not as popular as Flappy Bird.

Excerpts from an Interview

Excerpts from Articles• Over the last 6-12 months, indie developers have been

complaining that trying to get to the top of the app store – without the development and marketing budgets of the large game companies – can seem nearly impossible.

• Not so – meet Dong Nguyen.

• Dong is the developer of a little game called Flappy Bird which is the #1 top free app and #1 top free game in the app store right now.

• He’s also the #2 free app & #2 top free game with Super Ball Juggling.

The Mechanics of Flappy Bird

• Flappy Bird is based around a simple interaction:

press screen to flap wings. But it is clear that Nguyen has spent time working out the

exact vertical lift achieved by this single input; just as he has got the gap between pipes exactly right.

So how was Flappy Birds Created?

Understanding How game design works is the key to creating an app like Flappy Birds.

All Games (or most games these days) include Graphics. (Background graphics as well as characters – main characters and potentially enemies)

Then comes the programming – the clever bits – that make the characters move and interact with each other.

Could you create Flappy Birds?

Creating Flappy Birds in Scratch

A good way to introduce yourself to Programming is to use SCRATCH.

Scratch was created by MIIT to get young people (as young as five years old!) interested in the concept of programming and how logic sequences can get sprites to do clever things.

Can Flappy Birds be created in Scratch ? Yes!

Have a look at the next slide for a website that shows a screenshot of how it has already been made!

This shows some of the Sprites and backgrounds that have been used

This is the logic and the

sequences used to get the program

to work!

To start with, make a sprite and do this:

Have a look at the below website to get started• http://scratch.mit.edu/projects/16743509/#editor

But how are apps produced and then put on the Apple or Android Stores?• Here’s a website that goes through some of the best

free development tools

• http://indiestatik.com/2013/11/04/game-dev-tools/

ActionScript 3.0• Jumping

• http://www.actionscript.org/resources/articles/1086/1/Jumping-in-Video-Games/Page1.html

Step by Step

http://www.flashgametuts.com/tutorials/advanced/how-to-create-a-platform-game-in-as3-part-1/