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I heard it was just a reskin of a premade game he got off an asset store. Is that not the case?

This article made it sound like it was an original idea, but I thought it was just that one button to go up, no button to go down flash game. Is that not what it is?

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Slight variation (which may have been done before) where you tap instead of holding. Your upward bounce has a predetermined strength that makes minor course corrections impossible. It's definitely an added challenge.

Re: Asset store reskin, I have no idea. But FWIW I hadn't heard that accusation before.

The basic gameplay has been around for a long time. My old palm pilot had a similar game called "cave". The a article however talks about him designing the graphics, sound, physics, etc.

He designed Mario pipes? WOW!

No, I believe you're thinking of the current knock-offs that are top apps. Those are created from source code found on Chupamobile.

What asset store would that be?

The article explains how the game was designed.

There are very few original ideas out there.

No. Here's a video that gives a lot of video game historical context. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Us-W5CWj7Ic

It's original. There weren't any games that work exactly like it.

Except for the one with a fat yellow bird with tiny wings, with the same game mechanic of a 2D scroller, flapping through holes defined by green cactus instead of Mario World tunnels, it's original.

That one is different in multiple ways. Try to play one and then another. It looks the same, but is not. You may like one and get bored by another.

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