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Game developer Dong Nguyen, the man behind Flappy Bird, has revealed the name and look of his next game. “Swing Copters” is the new time-waster's moniker and the gameplay, as recorded by toucharcade, looks an awful lot like Flappy Bird turned 90 degrees to the left. The one new element looks to be swinging hammers that mean …

  1. Khaptain Silver badge

    Fodder for Nintendo copyright lawyers

    Doesn't look a bit like something ripped from a Mario game, no sireee.

  2. RyokuMas
    Facepalm

    Great...

    ... here comes another deluge of shitware and clones, flooding out the marketplaces and smothering any genuine new games before they can gain any kind of traction.

    Anyone know when this is likely to hit, so I can time my own release appropriately?

  3. Anonymous Coward
    Anonymous Coward

    The Shaft

    Hmm... This sounds similar to a great addictive game already out there called "The Shaft". Currently available only on Android, but way better than Flappy Bird ;)

    https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.maplescot.theshaft

    Check it out.

    1. duriej

      Re: The Shaft

      Hah. The Shaft is my game. I was just going to post a comment about how similar this looks.

      1. a well wisher

        Re: The Shaft

        "The Shaft is my game"

        Consider yourself shafted then !

        1. duriej
          Angel

          Re: The Shaft

          Funnily enough shafted was the working title of the game

      2. Nick Ryan Silver badge

        Re: The Shaft

        Nice. It looks an interesting enough game but as it requires Identity and Account use permissions it ain't getting installed.

        1. duriej

          Re: The Shaft

          I guess you don't play any games that use Google play games services then? All of them require it.

          1. Nick Ryan Silver badge

            Re: The Shaft

            I guess you don't play any games that use Google play games services then? All of them require it.

            Quite possibly. Is there a way to tell if an application is using these permissions as part of the google play games services or not? No... therefore no install.

            There are a lot of apps I don't install... :)

            1. duriej

              Re: The Shaft

              And there will probably be even fewer in the future as Google is making the app permissions model (or at least the view of it) less granular

      3. Anonymous Coward
        Anonymous Coward

        Re: The Shaft

        The shaft is your game you say...."You're damn right".....

  4. Stuart Castle Silver badge

    Looks like someone took flappy birds and tuned it on it's side.

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