Ten years ago, Dong Nguyen killed a chart-topping game. After realizing it had become "an addiction" for players, his guilt became so bad that he couldn't sleep.
Today, Gametech Holdings, LLC has revived this game but with *more* dark patterns, loot boxes, and predatory design.
This is cool.
"But why would Nguyen sell the Flappy Bird Trademark??" "Hope he got his bag!"
Looks like he *didn't*. It seems like it's been long enough that the trademark was considered abandoned, so Gametech Holdings LLC filed against him, and just. Grabbed it for free.
You can see all the court docs here: https://ttabvue.uspto.gov/ttabvue/v?pnam
The funniest (and saddest) part is... we're so much worse than Flappy Bird now. It seems *tame* by comparison.
In a better world, the story would have ended with this tweet.
So @somerandomdudelmao made a version of their sona in a dystopia (inspired by @tapakah0 doing the same to theirs) and the person in this ask named the robot C.A.S.5 and I thought, ‘well then there’s at least four other C.A.S. units out and about in the world’ leading to this being the end result! It was a lot of fun to come up with the different customizations each C.A.S. unit has.
also, the design for C.A.S.4 (Cash) was partially inspired by @mobiitez post.