Comments on: Flappy Bird vs Maverick Bird and their analogies to life https://mendellee.com/2014/02/13/flappy-bird-vs-maverick-bird-and-their-analogies-to-life/ composer • performer • educator • entrepreneur Thu, 07 Feb 2019 21:41:56 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: Hieu https://mendellee.com/2014/02/13/flappy-bird-vs-maverick-bird-and-their-analogies-to-life/comment-page-1/#comment-45728 Fri, 14 Feb 2014 08:47:38 +0000 http://mendellee.com/?p=1517#comment-45728 I wrote a giant thing about the two games then deleted it. It simply boiled down to the two being apples and oranges.

Your analogies are nice, although I find them a bit relative. For the most part I agree about the perseverance part of Flappy Bird, but it was a different experience for me. My best analogy would be something similar to skipping stones on a body of water. You see someone do it, then attempt it yourself and fail a few times. All it is a matter of execution, at least for me, and didn’t take long for me to get the scores that I did, skipping stones 7~10 times vs the 2 or 3 normally. ( I tried to not sound like i was bragging :( )

I agree about your observations with Maverick Bird, except I find the game lacking the same level of polish Flappy Bird has. I’m still unsure about the wiggly/jiggly and the music, and whether it plays more of a gimmick than a layer of difficulty. Anyway~

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