Remember Flappy Bird? The game that took over everyone’s phones in 2014, drove people to mass frustration, and then vanished when its creator pulled it from the App Store out of guilt? It was so stupidly simple — tap to flap, don’t hit the pipes — and yet so impossibly addictive.

I built my own version. It runs right in the browser, no install needed. Tap the screen or press space to flap. Pipes come at you with a random gap each time. Your score counts how many pipes you clear, and your best score sticks around thanks to localStorage.

I tried to get the physics feeling right — that snappy gravity pull and the satisfying little pop when you flap. The bird tilts up when you tap and nosedives when you don’t, just like the original. There’s a scrolling ground, parallax clouds, and the classic green pipes with their little caps and shading.

You even get medals: bronze at 10, silver at 20, gold at 40. Good luck getting gold.

Play Flappy Bird →