In the event you’re a longtime Mac and iPhone person, you probably bear in mind the wildly widespread viral iPhone recreation known as Flappy Chicken from means again in 2013, with its very difficult but addictive gameplay. Flappy Chicken was a completely large hit that rapidly got here crashing down when the developer yanked the sport from the iPhone App Retailer due its addictive nature and the encircling pressures he felt as the sport turned a worldwide phenomena.
Properly, right here we’re greater than a decade later, and Flappy Chicken has been revived by a distinct developer, as “Flappy Dird”, and it’s applied in… the MacOS Finder?!
As wild because it sounds, Flappy Dird makes use of AppleScript and Python to permit a Flappy Chicken-like clone to play straight within the MacOS Finder, utilizing folders, checklist view, customized icons, and all kinds of wizardry and creativity to acknowledge clicks, quickly change the icons, and principally recreate the fundamental Flappy Chicken gameplay inside a Finder window. Cool, huh?
Are you going to wish to spend hours taking part in this within the Finder? Perhaps, however most likely not.
Is that this one thing you could have some fun with, to goof off with throughout a sluggish workday or a lazy weekend? Sure!
Is it amazingly cool and inventive, not solely as a proof of idea, but additionally as a unique place to implement a online game? Completely! Flappy Dird will get some main Geek Factors which might be positive to impress a few of us, anyway!
For what it’s value, the original FlappyBird game is here on the builders webpage, although the sport has been defunct and isn’t presently playable wherever.
Cheers to the dev who posted it to HackerNews a while in the past.