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You can’t play Foldy Bird unless you have a folding phone

Rob Beschizza
Jan 05, 2026
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Foldy Bird

Lyra Rebane made a Flappy Bird clone that calls upon the player to fold their folding smartphone to flap the bird’s wings. Flappy Bird can in fact be played only on such devices: fold to start.

An excellent example of a mimetic user interface (flap your phone!), we yet recoil in horror because actually folding a folding phone still feels risky:…

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