The workforce behind the revived cell hit Flappy Fowl has confirmed that the brand new model will give customers the choice to make use of Web3 however is not going to contact non-fungible tokens (NFTs).
The brand new recreation was first revealed earlier this month, and hidden pages on a web site for the sport recommended it had hyperlinks to crypto, which wasn’t confirmed till after it launched on Sept. 16.
Chatting with Cointelegraph, a spokesperson from the Flappy Fowl Basis confirmed the sport “could have Web3 integrations” when performed by means of the messaging app Telegram, however customers there can choose out of them.
“There might be future releases with out crypto options on cell platforms,” the spokesperson mentioned, including all Flappy Fowl releases “will at all times be 100% free to play.”
The spokesperson mentioned the sport “won’t ever have NFTs,” echoing a Sept. 23 X submit from the Flappy Fowl workforce, which added that no crypto pockets could be required to play.
Supply: Flappy Fowl
The spokesperson advised Cointelegraph that the sport would earn cash from in-app transactions and that its plans for in-app purchases would “embody shopping for extra vitality and gadgets that may change flight physics.”
It should additionally get cash from in-game commercials, which the spokesperson mentioned is “completely optionally available to look at” and offers gamers perks like rating multipliers.
The brand new Flappy Fowl launched as a Telegram Mini App and is a re-hash of the unique viral hit side-scrolling cell recreation launched in Might 2013, the place gamers information a chicken’s flight by means of inexperienced pipes by tapping their telephone display.
Hidden web site pages for the Flappy Fowl Basis’s recreation discovered by researcher Varun Biniwale earlier this month confirmed that crypto would play a task within the recreation, with mentions of a “$FLAP token” and a play-to-earn recreation mannequin.
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The sport is presently working a “flap-to-earn” promo — that was additionally discovered by Biniwale — and guarantees a future airdrop with no particular point out of a token.
The sport affords in-game rewards for connecting a crypto pockets, however might be performed with out. Supply: Flappy Fowl
Some net pages talked about a launch on the Solana blockchain, however the basis’s spokesperson has clarified that onchain options could be launched on Telegram’s linked blockchain, The Open Community (TON).
In the meantime, the sport’s authentic creator Dong Nguyen has distanced himself from the sport, including he doesn’t help crypto. Nguyen pulled the sport in 2014, 9 months after he launched it, and later advised Forbes that it was as a result of it had turn into “an addictive product.”
The Flappy Fowl Basis acquired rights to Flappy Fowl from Gametech Holdings LLC — which received the rights to it in January after opposing Nguyen’s maintain on the trademark, and america Patent and Trademark Workplace (USPTO) decided Nguyen deserted it and terminated his declare.
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