Flappy Bird
Overview
A professionally polished browser-based implementation of the classic Flappy Bird game featuring advanced graphics, progressive difficulty, and immersive audio. Built with modern web technologies and zero dependencies.
🚀 Development Story: This complete game was vibe coded in just under three hours end to end using Claude-4-Sonnet via Cursor's Agent, in YOLO mode. From initial concept to production deployment with professional polish, progressive difficulty, immersive audio, and responsive design!
🎮 Game Features
Core Gameplay
- Perfect Collision Detection - Texture-based alignment ensures precise hit detection
- Progressive Difficulty - 11 difficulty levels that increase every 5 points
- Smooth Physics - Realistic bird movement with gravity and momentum
- Forgiving Collision - Smaller hitbox for more enjoyable gameplay
Visual Excellence
- Realistic Animated Bird - Detailed bird with wing animation, expressive eyes, and death states
- Enhanced Pipes - Detailed textures with caps, highlights, and shadows
- Animated Environment - Moving clouds with parallax effects
- Professional Ground - Grass texture with brown base layer
- Modern UI - Level indicators, difficulty notifications, and clean typography
Immersive Audio
- Web Audio API - Professional sound system with auto-resume
- Dynamic Sound Effects - Flap chirps, score bells, and death tones
- Browser Compatibility - Handles audio restrictions gracefully
🎯 How To Play
- Menu: Click Play button or press SPACE/ENTER
- Game: Click, tap, or press SPACE to flap
- Game Over: SPACE to restart, ESC for menu
Guide the bird through pipe gaps by tapping to flap. Score increases by 1 for each pipe successfully passed. Difficulty increases every 5 points with faster pipes, smaller gaps, and more frequent spawning. Try to beat your high score!
🌟 Technical Highlights
- Zero Dependencies - Pure vanilla JavaScript with Phaser.js
- Cross-Platform - Works on desktop and mobile browsers
- Performance Optimized - Smooth 60fps gameplay
- Modern Architecture - Scene management, modular design, robust error handling
- Professional Polish - High score persistence, debug tools, responsive design
🤖 AI-Powered Development
This game showcases the incredible power of modern AI-assisted development. The entire professional-quality game was created in under 3 hours through collaboration between human creativity and AI capability, resulting in a feature-complete game that rivals commercial mobile games!