This is not the second one, nor will it be the last. Kongregate alone has dozens: http://www.kongregate.com/search?q=flappy

It's just hype. If people are motivated to learn new skills because of it, then that's a good thing.

I showed my son how to open the debugger and change the opening width in the pipes to make it easier. After he took a picture of a score >1000 to show his friends, he started to mess with all the other variables.

The he asked me to teach him how to make his own game.

Win.

now teach him wireshark and let him hack/stalck some of his friends.

now that's a nice reply :)

Why would you assume that someone is not able to think of their own ideas simply because one of the things they have made is a Flappy Bird clone?

thanks for the comment man! This is a personal study project to show how it easy to code this famous game. It's not for personal showoff or something like this. It's to show to youg ones how it's easy to execute the game idea and to open their minds to other things.

This is just the second Flappy Bird clone to make Hacker News; there are many others (you can find some on reddit.)

There is nothing wrong with developers seeing something they want to build and spending time building it. (Especially when it is so quick.)

One advantage of creating a clone in HTML5 is that the original game was not made in that way and it is easier to share that way via social media; perhaps one of these could get a lot of traffic.