In 2014 a mobile app named Flappy Bird was downloaded over 50 million times. The goal of the game was to keep a cute pixelated bird flying for as long as possible through pipes at various altitudes. This game has the opposite goal – you play the pipes and try to prevent any birds from making it past your defenses.
- Tap to shut your pipes on birds to crush them.
- Use your in game experience to purchase upgrades to your back up wall and power ups.
- Close your pipes on 3 question mark boxes of the same type and enable a high-powered attack.
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Flapping Crush Game for Kids Video Game Play Instructions
How to Play
Close the pipes on birds to score points. Use your in game experience to buy upgrades to your defenses.
- Starting the Game
- Select the PLAY OFFLINE button on the welcome screen to start the game.
- The welcome screen also contains an OPTIONS button allowing you to turn game sound and music on and off, or read game developer credits.
- Game Controls
- Desktop
- Enter a nickname to start by tapping on the on-screen letter keys.
- Tap you mouse left click button to crush birds trying to make their way through.
- Tap on the buttons in the lower left corner to activate power attacks.
- Touchscreen devices
- Tap the screen to close the pipes.
- Tap on buttons in the lower left corner when they appear to activate power attacks.
- Controls & indicators
- The upper left corner shows how many points you have scored.
- Your wall behind the pipes shows if it has taken any damage.
- The buttons in the lower left corner show you how charged up that power up feature is & grow larger when the power up is fully powered.
- Game Play
- Bird types
- Birds move slowly off the start of the game & tend to use the up and down movement which mimics Flappy Bird.
- As you progress through the game birds move faster & some fly direct.
- If you crush the birds they die.
- If birds run into the front edge of your pipes or one of your walls they bounce back and move more toward the vertical center of the screen.
- Birds can repeatedly bounce back and keep damaging your wall until they fully break through.
- Scoring
- Each bird you crush or destroy with another weapon is worth a point.
- Birds work on a multiplier if you destroy multiple at once. The first bird is worth 1 point, the second is worth 2 points, and the third is worth 3.
- Power Ups
- Periodically ? blocks will appear in the game just like birds.
- When you collect 3 of the same power up type it charges up the power up so you can use it and the associated button in the lower left of the screen gets big. Select that button to activate the power up.
- You can equip up to three different power up types at a time. Initially the bomb power up is unlocked but you can purchase others.
- Dying
- Each bird which makes it past your pipes can do damage to your wall.
- If the wall no longer remains where the bird flies through and the bird makes it to the right edge of the screen you lose.
- Wall Upgrades
- Behind the pipe you have a brick wall where each square defends you only once.
- You can upgrade the center 8 squares one at a time & any upgrades will last through all subsequent plays until upgraded or replaced.
- The centermost squares are the most important ones to upgrade as they are the squares most birds will cross.
- You can upgrade from brick to steel for 250 per square.
- Birds have to hit it twice for it to break.
- You can upgrade from either brick or steel to reinforced gold for 600 per square.
- Birds have to hit it three times to break it.
- Fully upgrading all 8 wall squares costs 4,800.
- Wall Bonuses
- Each wall can have another upgrade attached at the front of it.
- Springs cost 750. They bounce the bird backward.
- Spikes cost 200. They hit the bird.
- Throwing stars cost 300. They throw a star straight out into the playing field.
- Bombs cost 400. When hit they shoot a bomb out into the screen which blows up.
- Placing bombs on all 8 wall squares costs 3,200.
- Attack Upgrades
- You can equip up to 3 upgrades at a time.
- Bomb is red and is unlocked by default. Activating it throws 3 bombs onto the screen.
- A laser between your pipes costs 150 to unlock and is green. Each bird is hit individually & the laser lasts for 10 seconds.
- Extra wall costs 300 and is maroon. It provides a steel wall left of your pipes.
- Zombie birds costs 400 and is a darker forest green. Zombie birds fly in the opposite direction as the normal birds and eat them for 8 seconds.
- Ice cube costs 500. This closes your pipes for 8 seconds then any bird on the screen immediately after that turns into an ice cube, which then destroys another bird which runs into it.
- Wrecking ball costs 1000 and is gray. This closes your pipes for 10 seconds and a spiked ball swings back and forth hitting birds.
- Horizontal laser costs 1500 and is purplish-blue. This closes your pipes for 8 seconds then shoots a massive laser across the center of the screen hitting all birds in its path.
- Unlocking all attack upgrades costs 3,850.
- Target Audience
- The game is suited for players who like idle tap games.
- The game has no adult themed content.
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Mobile Friendly Cross Browser Support
This game is rendered in mobile-friendly HTML5, so it offers cross-device gameplay. You can play it on mobile devices like Apple iPhones, Google Android powered cell phones from manufactures like Samsung, tablets like the iPad or Kindle Fire, laptops, and Windows-powered desktop computers. All game files are stored locally in your web browser cache. This game works in Apple Safari, Google Chrome, Microsoft Edge, Mozilla Firefox, Opera and other modern web browsers.
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