Flappy Bird

Flappy Bird is the one-button tapper that defined a genre. It runs in the browser: no download, no account, no install.

Tap to flap, thread the pipes, do not touch the ground. A round lasts a couple of minutes at most, and losing costs nothing, so the natural reaction to a failed run is to start another one immediately.

The reason it holds attention is that there is no difficulty ramp, so the whole game is a question of how long you can stay calm. That is what an action game should be doing.

This cool games spot page is the catalog entry. The title, cover, and search text live here so the game can be found; pressing Play loads the licensed GameMonetize build in an iframe, which keeps the game files out of the site bundle.

Open the player, press Play, and see how far you get.