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Bird's Town Launches on Mac OS X! Posted Dec 5, 2012, 1:25 PM by Unknown user updated Dec 5, 2012, 1:34 PM. Neil Sardesai is the first developer to convert a full-sized game into an interactive notification. As a result, he got a fully playable clone of the original version of the game. And since Sardesai shrank the game and made it just 28KB, it fits into your Mac’s notification center. Shown off in a proof-of-concept video. In a new video, a developer has shown off a playable version of viral hit Flappy Bird running inside a macOS push notification. It’s the work of Neil.
In a new video, a developer has shown off a playable version of viral hit Flappy Bird running inside a macOS push notification. It’s the work of Neil Sardesai, who previously made headlines with a clip of Pong running inside a macOS app icon. The hack has yet to receive a public release, but it’s still a neat proof of concept.
According to Sardesai, the feature works by loading a web version of the game into the notification. This playable version is technically a browser-based clone of the original app made by Will Eastcott of PlayCanvas. Sardesai notes that the feature relies on the UserNotificationsUI framework, introduced by Apple with macOS Big Sur, though he says it should also work on iOS.
Did you know you can put a whole game inside of a push notification pic.twitter.com/LlMx2AjvHH
— Neil Sardesai (@neilsardesai) April 9, 2021Distracting notifications are bad enough when you’re trying to get some work done, but combining them with a playable version of an infamously addictive game is the final straw. Sardesai doesn’t appear to have released his work publicly for anyone to try out, which is probably a good thing for the sake of our sanity. After all, the last thing humanity needs right now is for our devices to be able to compel us to play several rounds of Flappy Bird with just a simple notification.
Flappy Bird’s addictive nature was cited by its developer as one of the reasons he removed it from the App Store after it became a hit in 2014. “It happened to become an addictive product. I think it has become a problem,” Dong Nguyen said in an interview at the time. Although the original game is gone from the App Store, numerous clones have surfaced in its wake, including an excellent battle royale version.
Neil Sardesai created a clone of the original Flappy Bird game and fitted it into the Mac notification center.
We surely all remember the annoyingly addictive game Flappy Bird that was removed from the App Store back in 2014. Since then, developers have tried to recreate it, but all of those game versions failed to replace the original one.
Thanks to iOS engineer Neil Sardesai, the world-famous game has made a comeback in a form that nobody could have ever imagined… as an interactive macOS notification.
Play Flappy Bird in Your Notification Center
Neil Sardesai is the first developer to convert a full-sized game into an interactive notification. As a result, he got a fully playable clone of the original version of the game. And since Sardesai shrank the game and made it just 28KB, it fits into your Mac’s notification center.
In one of the recent iOS engineer’s tweets, he showed exactly how the Flappy Bird notification game looks in action. It looks just like the original version of Flappy Bird and is just as easy to play.
The only difference is that instead of tapping on the phone’s screen, you need to click with your mouse to make the bird fly. And yes, it’s just as frustrating as it always was.
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It’s quite an original idea to use the notification’s interactive capabilities that came with macOS Big Sur for game development. Maybe even Apple didn’t have it in mind when adding the new user notifications UI framework to this operating system update.
Related: How to Upgrade to macOS Big Sur
Could Doom Be the Next macOS Notification?
When Sardesai was asked about whether it’s possible to convert Doom into a Mac notification, he answered that it’s worth a try. So, who knows, maybe the next interactive Mac notification created by this developer will be the ultra-popular shooter!
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