A lot of Flappy Bird clones have launched since the game exploded then got yanked from mobile app stores.

Splashy Fish rose to the number one free app spot fifteen hours after it launched. It has held a top position ever since, although today it's battling against another Flappy Bird clone, "Flying Cyrus.

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Italy's Massimo Guareschi is the founder of Splashy Fish. He says it took three days to build and his nephews —who were Flappy Bird fans — inspired the game.

Guareschi, says 5 — 10 million people play Splashy Fish daily and about million games are played per day. It's unclear how many daily active users it had. Like Flappy Bird, Splashy Fish encourages users to bob up and down by tapping their smart phone's screen then swim through obstacles. We asked Guareschi all about his hit app. How long did did the game take from inception to going live in app stores?

I assume the inspiration was Flappy Bird's success.

Flappy Bird has obviously been a good inspiration but, as a matter of fact, the game was born from my nephew's idea: They were playing [Flappy Bird] and used to ask me for better features in order to improve the game.

That's where the idea of Splashy Fish comes from. What day specifically did it launch, and how long did it take to become number one in the app store? It was launched on the 11 th February at midnight PST and in about 15 hours it become number one in the Apple Store. What is Splashy Fish doing right to be the top Flappy Bird spin-off out there? Me and my colleagues tried to focus our attention to little peculiarities, in fact we added many features that our players appreciated: We added 5 trophies to make the game more challenging and to personalize the fish and we used appealing sound effects.

I remind you that other cool updates have still to come. Has Apple or Google reached out to Splashy Fish and complained that it's too much like Flappy Bird? Will Splashy Fish have to change its name or concept to stay in the mobile app stores? We have had no complaints from Google or Apple since our game was released.

At the moment we are in contact with Apple only regarding a few clarifications about the name of the game. We remind you that the name of our game is Splashy Fish and redBit games already registered the trademark according to standard procedures.

No, we had no contacts with him yet but we would love to get in touch with him. We have a very good opinion of him as a games developer and we would very much like to have Flappy Bird back in the App Stores. The Life And Sudden Death Of Flappy Bird: Tech market is nowhere near the dotcom days. How augmented reality is changing the way we work.

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