Recreating Flappy Bird in Blender in 1 Hour

Bart · February 9, 2014

Joe Shanahan shares this time lapse in which he creates a Flappy Bird (the insanely succesful iPhone game) in a little over one hour.

Joe writes:

Worried about the news that Flappy Bird is going to be taken down from the app store? Well don’t be, because you could just make your own version of it in a single hour! In 3D! For free!
This video has been sped up by a factor of 40, I started from scratch and had not attempted to make this before starting. My final time was around 1 hour 5 minutes. I have never played Flappy Bird before.
Made with Blender (free) and programmed (badly) with Python.
Made to prove a point. To myself.
Music from Incompetech.com

Author Bart

I have a LONG history with Blender - I wrote some of the earliest Blender tutorials, worked for Not a Number and helped run the crowdfunding campaign that open sourced Blender (the first one on the internet!). I founded BlenderNation in 2006 and have been editing it every single day since then ;-) I also run the Blender Artists forum and I'm Community Lead at n8n.

12 responses

bigpilot

9 February 2014 at 17:56

Looks better than the original ;)

Krystof Klestil

10 February 2014 at 08:03

Indeed! That’s a very nice outcome.

roofoo

10 February 2014 at 14:48

I just heard about flappy bird yesterday, yet somehow it’s the most popular game ever? And it’s already deleted? I feel like I just crawled out from under a rock. LOL

Spelle

10 February 2014 at 15:12

Heh, you’ve done it :) It seems that sometimes less is more, very addictive gameplay coming from the simplest concept. And your version is very nice.

januz

10 February 2014 at 18:08

Too bad we can’t have BGE games on iOS. Impressive work for 1hr though

Anuga
11 February 2014 at 22:03
Unity is free ;)
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1. januz
  11 February 2014 at 23:02
  But not for mobile, you need to get pro. There’s Godot now though http://www.godotengine.org/wp/?page_id=20 :D
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  1. Anuga
    11 February 2014 at 23:56
    “The free version of Unity for Windows. Includes publishing support for iOS, Android, Windows Store, Windows Phone, BlackBerry, desktop and Web, and a 30 day trial of Unity Pro (with Pro publishing for iOS, Android, Windows Store, Windows Phone and BlackBerry).”
    http://unity3d.com/unity/download
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    1. januz
      12 February 2014 at 00:03
      oops, my bad. I remembered differently
    2. Anuga
      12 February 2014 at 00:08
      No worries :) they changed the terms in december or so.