--- description: The creator of Flappy Bird's next game is here, along with the first batch of apparent knockoffs. title: Swing Copters Is Live, Not to Be Confused with Tube Revenge image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- * [Business](/section/business/) ## Business Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close * [Tech](/tag/time-section-tech/) ## Tech Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close # Swing Copters Is Live, Not to Be Confused with Tube Revenge by [Matt Peckham](/author/matt-peckham/) ## Matt Peckham Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Aug 21, 2014 1:01 PM CUT by [Matt Peckham](/author/matt-peckham/) ## Matt Peckham Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Aug 21, 2014 1:01 PM CUT _Swing Copters_, the guy who made _Flappy Bird_‘s next mobile game, [is live now](https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/swing-copters/id905639750?mt=8 "undefined") as [promised](http://time.com/3144743/swing-copters-flappy-bird/ "undefined"), though you’ll have to search to find it (it wasn’t charting as this post went up), and that means sorting through all the soundalike (and in some cases lookalike) copycat versions. On the Google Play store, you’ll find a bunch, including one that looks visually and functionally identical to _Swing Copters_ titled “Copters swing.” At this point, there’s just one turning up in my App Store results, a little tapper called [_Tube Revenge – Swing Copters_](https://itunes.apple.com/cn/app/tube-revenge-smash-birds-crush/id838253078?mt=8 "undefined"). It’s not a last minute clone, either: its version history dates back to March 2014\. Weirder still, its designer describes it as inspired by _Flappy Bird_. For the record, _Flappy Bird_ debuted in May 2013 and went viral in January 2014, _Tube Revenge – Swing Copters_ cropped up in March, and then Dong Nguyen’s _Flappy Bird_ followup is hitting now, August 21\. I’m not sure how that works. The phrase “Swing Copters” is fairly nonrandom, after all. In Nguyen’s _Swing Copters_, you play as a little creature sporting a propeller cap and tap the screen to fly–slewing somewhat drunkenly side to side–upward through girder-like platforms that jut from the screen’s edges. Nguyen threw in dangling hammers that sway like pendulums and threaten to whack you as you motor past, just to keep it interesting. _Tube Revenge_, by contrast, has you tapping to keep a tiny green pipe flying left-to-right, _Flappy Bird_\-style. knocking into orange-colored creatures to score points while avoiding black ones. Unfortunately the game hung half the time I brought it up, and kept trying to send me to something called _Boom Beach_, so I’d give it wide berth. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3153519/swing-copters-is-live/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3153519/swing-copters-is-live/"},"headline":"Swing Copters Is Live, Not to Be Confused with Tube Revenge","datePublished":"2014-08-21T13:01:07.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T08:03:00.617Z","description":"The creator of Flappy Bird's next game is here, along with the first batch of apparent knockoffs.","url":"https://time.com/3153519/swing-copters-is-live/","keywords":["Tech","Video Games","iOS"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Matt Peckham","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/matt-peckham/"}],"articleSection":"Business","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/business/","name":"Business"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-tech/","name":"Tech"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/3153519/swing-copters-is-live/","name":"Swing Copters Is Live, Not to Be Confused with Tube Revenge"}}]},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"VideoObject","name":"Swing Copters Gameplay Trailer by Flappy Bird Creator Dong Nguyen","description":"Swing Copters Gameplay Trailer by Flappy Bird Creator Dong Nguyen","thumbnailUrl":"https://cdn.jwplayer.com/v2/media/lBzZIqU0/poster.jpg?width=720","uploadDate":"2014-08-19T17:33:26.000Z","contentUrl":"https://cdn.jwplayer.com/manifests/lBzZIqU0.m3u8","embedUrl":"https://time.com/3153519/swing-copters-is-live/","duration":"PT2M7S","potentialAction":{"@type":"SeekToAction","target":"https://time.com/3153519/swing-copters-is-live/?jw_start={seek_to_second_number}","startOffset-input":"required name=seek_to_second_number"}}] ```