Flappy Bird it hasn’t been funny in Apple’s App Store for years, not since meteoric popularity increased in 2014 before its creator just as quickly he made it offline. Now the addictive furious mobile game has reincarnated in a form no one expected: an interactive macOS notification.
Using the new set of customization tools added with those from Apple macOS Big Sur update, iOS engineer Neil Sardesai successfully introduced a fully playable version of the game in a push notification. It is technically a clone of the original created by PlayCanvas creator Will Eastcott with a significantly smaller file size (28 KB), making it a perfect match given the strict memory limitations of the Notification UI framework Apple user.
Flappy Bird It’s not the first game Sardesai has managed to introduce to Apple’s interfaces. Previously, he made the classic game Pong playable com an icon on your Mac support and adapts to the iconic Google Chrome browser game Dino Runner in the Mac menu bar.
“I’ve been trying to find fun ways to push the boundaries of various macOS APIs lately,” he told Gizmodo via email Sunday.
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When browsing Apple documentation in the framework for creating and customizing user notifications, it was realized that the latest version of macOS allows developers to add “interactive controls” to notifications. Apple suggests some potential uses for developers, such as adding buttons or switches, but Sardesai took things a step further and decided to “try to insert a game into a notification.”
He showed the final product turned on Twitter this week with mouse clicks replacing the screenshots of the players used in the original Flappy Bird progress. Spoiler alert: It’s as frustrating as you remember.
It’s safe to assume that when Apple decided to add interactive features to its notifications, it didn’t exactly consider game development. You have to admire the ingenuity and I love that it has become the unofficial mission of the internet to find the most amazing technology you can program to make video games.
And yes, before we said anything, we already asked Sardesai the inevitable question: It can work Doom?
“Doom in a push notification it would be awesome, “he said.” It’s worth a try! “