I think I was one of the last people on the Internet to hear about the stupendously popular smartphone game "Flappy Bird", since I shy away from casual gaming. However, when even a monochrome calculator version appeared in our archive queue, it became clear that the game has completely saturated the collective Internet consciousness. It was with some reluctance that I realized sooner or later it would have to reach the color-screen TI-84 Plus C Silver Edition, so it is with rather mixed feelings that I present Flappy Bird Color, an homage to the original game.

What made the original such an overnight success? The concept is not a new one; tunnel/helicopter/jetpack games have been a staple of casual gaming for decades, as evidenced by the folder full of such games for the monochrome TI-83 Plus/TI-84 Plus. The gameplay is not outstanding, and even the art more than heavily evokes Mario, complete with replicas of warp pipes. Nevertheless, through a combination of addicting frustration and word-of-mouth, it has achieved great notoriety. You pilot a bird through a narrow tunnel of pipe-like obstacles, telling the bird when to fly upwards and when to fall with gravity. Although the concept is simple, playing the game is table-poundingly annoying. While I tried to make this game equally frustrating to pay tribute to its inspiration, please don't smash or damage your calculator, as there are plenty of less frustrating things you could be using your calculator for. Flappy Bird Color requires Doors CSE 8.0 or higher. Please see the Readme for more information and disclaimers, and I apologize in advance for the time that you'll waste playing this game.

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Flappy Bird Color for the TI-84 Plus C Silver Edition

That's awesome Kerm, good job! I especially like how identical to the iPhone that is 

Wait it is BASIC? That makes the whole thing far more awesome!
Great job Kerm!

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Quote from: Sorunome on February 13, 2014, 01:37:05 pm

Wait it is BASIC? That makes the whole thing far more awesome!
Great job Kerm!

hybrid TI-BASIC actually

Still makes it more impressive IMO

Yeah I really had serious troubles trying to pull off a side-scrolling engine using xLIB because of how buffers kept flipping or how drawing was restricted to half of the screen at a time. It was a serious hassle really, although I managed to get a decent speed from my Tunnel. I never figured out how to get rid of the flicker, though. In case tr1p1ea added a way to make such game easier, I decided to wait a bit before continuing my Supersonic Ball CSE port.

Also from the vid it seems pretty fun, and lol I see you kept the flashing animation from the Tunnel . I will download this pretty soon.

Btw, for that game, do you use tilemaps of some sort or do you generate pipes on the fly? I didn't have time to look at the code sadly. I am curious since I might eventually try to make an HP Prime Flappy Bird clone if no one beats me to it. I might change some stuff, though.

if you mean z-address screen shifting, then yes. (This is what this version of Flappy Bird uses)

Lolwut? http://www.ticalc.org/archives/files/fileinfo/458/45873.html

Actually I like the messages at the end. Don't bother making an ASM version with such messages, though, because nobody will ever see any of the messages past the 1st pipe since the game would be so hard