Apple and Google have honed down on copycat Flappy Bird apps since creator Dong Nygen took down the original version Feb. 9.
Look-a-like versions have included the Flappy Fish, Flappy Pig, or Splashy Fish, which have appeared in the app store The Verge reported Sunday.
"I had included a sentence about Flappy Dragon being the best flappy game now thatFlappy Bird was dead," Carpenter tells The Verge. When he submitted a second time, with the description removed, the app was again rejected. He was finally able to get the game on Google Play by changing the name to Derpy Dragon, which is currently available to download.
Google took down Carpenter's Flappy Dragon imitation of the original version from its Google Play Store after Carpenter sent in materials for the app's creation the first time, and was told not to put certain information in his version. "Do not use irrelevant, misleading, or excessive keywords in apps descriptions, titles, or metadata," the company told Carpenter The Verge reported.
The app was not accepted the time time after the words in question were taken out The Verge reported.
Carpenter found success however by calling it Depry Dragon that is now in the Google Play App store.
The app had over 50 million downloads, and earned Nguyen $50,000 a day in income from advertisements according to CNET.
A petition to bring the game back is no longer on the White House website. It had 11 signatures, Friday, of the 100,000 necessary by March 15 according to The State Column,
Flappy Bird came out May 24, 2013 on iOS at no cost.
Flappy Bird was designed to play in a few minutes when you are relaxed," Dong Nguyen, creator of the app told Forbes at the time of the news. "But it happened to become an addictive product. I think it has become a problem. To solve that problem, it's best to take down Flappy Bird. It's gone forever," Nguyen told Forbes. Remarks from Nintendo did not reportedly influence Nguyen's decision Forbes reported.
