Opinion: Flappy Bird, Empathy, Appreciation for Simplicity

There’s been a lot of talk about Flappy Bird lately. For those who somehow haven’t heard about it – it’s a mobile game from an indie developer in Vietnam named Dong Nguyen. Over the past few weeks, it’s taken the mobile gaming world by storm, climbing up to the #1 spot in the app store. This… Read More


Pixel Pressure Cooker, #3

Hey everyone! As you may be aware – today is Monday, and the more astute readers will remember that we did our Pixel Pressure Cooker on Thursday last week. So, apologies for the late post 🙂 This week’s Pixel Pressure Cooker was pretty interesting and different, because we worked with a guest artist – Cellusious.… Read More


Flippfly Show, January 30th

Hey all, here’s the Flippfly show! We talk about Pixel Pressure Cooker, Octodad’s release, and a quick update on Race The Sun development. [youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UzAw8OjK8g4]… Read More


Pixel Pressure Cooker, Episode 2

Today we did the second “Pixel Pressure Cooker” – a one-jour game jam using Unity3D. The theme this week was suggested immediately by several of our followers: Candy. This is to commemorate the current legal shenanigans surrounding King.com’s “Candy” trademark. Read more about that here. So – we made a tongue-in-cheek game where you shoot… Read More


NotOnSteam Retrospective

This article is an analysis of what happened back in October during the NotOnSteam sale- many of the developers are still selling games on or off Steam, and some are still trying to get votes for Greenlight – they can still be purchased at NotOnSteam.com. The NotOnSteam sale was an online event that Flippfly hosted… Read More