I made FLAPPY BIRD in DUMB programs

hello today we're going to be remaking

Flappy Bird in increasingly stupid ways

from Premier Pro to file explorer I'm

here to prove that anything is a game

engine if you try hard enough oh what

okay game engine one file explorer is a

game engine it's got everything you need

it can like store images I suppose H

yeah that that's all you really need

okay let's jump into it okay so here's

the plan if we fill out this bad boy

with a bunch of new folders then we have

a picture of the Flappy Bird Bird this

makes me extremely uncomfortable I don't

know why it's like a cyclops version

anyway okay there we go that's our boy

now in theory we can change the name of

the bird and it should move around if we

call it zero bird that didn't work at

all that did it should move up am I

crazy oh wait no I'm dumb I'm dumb you

don't want folders folders are always

above the other files we want like text

files okay let's make some text files

did it crash okay we're good okay that

really doesn't bode well all I did was

create a text file [ __ ] is we've barely

started [ __ ] is about to get so much

worse all right let's fill her up okay

now if we change the name it should

move

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yeah I am celebrating so hard all we did

was rename it okay we got [ __ ] to do

let's go next I WR a little python file

to rename all the text files so I don't

have to manually go through and do them

all and this should allow for more

precise movement name this to 2 a does

that move it after two it does okay okay

and now if we want to move it down one I

think we have to call it

17A yes yes okay okay okay also decided

to use medium icon so we got more spaces

to move around in now we can write a

script then we'll just move it around

randomly all right this is good but

we've R into our first let's call it

Quirk of this game engine it's not

really that consistent with refreshing

the display like this is supposed to

change the position of the bird every

second but if we put it next to a

metronome then you see it's really not

doing

well now not all is hopeless we do have

one option left and that's this absolute

but right here this [ __ ] Legend this

guy when you click it refreshes the

display which is like exactly what we

want so my first thought is to run an

auto clicker to spam click that bad boy

all right let's click that [ __ ] every

like 10 milliseconds that should be

enough o yeah that's pretty quick yeah

that doesn't seem great oh no oh no stop

stop stop oh I [ __ ] up I've done

[ __ ] up oh can no longer exhale trust

me to break [ __ ] file explorer oh

we're back it works oh no it's opening

them all no no no no no no look at this

oh no no oh no it's still going okay so

turns out every 10 milliseconds is a

touch excessive and we could probably

just do it every time we change a file

also I have PTSD from letting python

control my mouse I could do oh no it's

open command prompt so we're going to

use keyboard shortcuts to refresh it

instead yes yes yes yes yes okay okay

that's pretty insc I'm pretty happy with

that all right this is way better uh but

a game running in an FPS of one is not

ideal we're trying to make Flappy Bird

here not cyber Punk so let's see how far

we can push it it's 10 FPS I was going

to do a whole montage thing can't be

[ __ ] doing that it's 10

FPS if we go any further than 10 FPS it

starts like skipping FR Aames like this

and that [ __ ] sucks so 10 FPS it is

okay let's actually you get the game

happening all we've done is move a bird

like left and right let's actually get

some like gravity

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happening I'm

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flppy flop FL FL I'm looking

flppy oh yeah that's gravity baby it's

going oh he is going far that is that is

a big number all right let's flap that

bird and then space

Oh space hello I broke it what if you

speed up the footage it almost looks

playable okay it's pipe time it's pipe

time it's pipe time got to get that that

[ __ ] pipe time

it's time it's time got to get that

[ __ ] pip time

it's it's time oh oh look at the

pipe it's working it's [ __ ] working

oh wait it crashed oh but it's a good

crash because it happens when I hit the

pipe yes okay I don't have to code that

bit in my sh coding has built in

Collision detection yes okay come on

come on come on oh oh oh it's Flappy

Bird it's this is going to be so hard

and now we just have to spawn new pipes

in every now and then and we're Gucci

baby all right let's do this [ __ ] that's

one easy easy game go for two oh oh he's

crazy can he get

three no no I died no but that's Flappy

bir FL in Vile Explorer yeah I told you

vile Explorer is a game engine also I

tried to do it with the sky background

but moving around pngs is way slower

than moving around text files so it was

pretty unplayable also this happened

oh what happened where'd it go am I I

think I've

become have I become a pipe yes I have

become a pipe that's fine that happens

so yeah anyway next game

engine Microsoft Paint is a game engine

it's got everything you need you can

like the paint stuff ah look I painted

your

mom okay so here's the idea for this one

basically the plan is to write a python

script that is going to control the

mouse to really quickly draw the entire

state of the game so it'll like draw

some pipes over here and then it'll

probably have to change the color of the

paint and then draw the bird like this

and yeah that's like one frame it'll

have to like redraw everything every

other frame I guess we'll have to erase

that I'll figure it out don't worry okay

let's draw some

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[ __ ] okay that's good but let's draw it

a bit

faster okay that was faster but it was a

different shape which is not

ideal yeah that's the speed we're

looking for baby okay now that we're

happy with the speed let's actually draw

the bird from the G from the flppy bird

game yeah we draw that um and to draw

that bird we're going to need some

circles uh which is hard to do with

lines and I couldn't be [ __ ] writing

the code to do this so uh yeah I'm I'm

going to take

that oh yeah kind of [ __ ] kind of was

kind of slow and it missed this point

and it didn't finish the thing but here

at code bullet Industries we can happily

Overlook these things also every time we

run it it seems to [ __ ] up in a unique

way which is that's fun that's a I'm

going to say that's a stylistic choice

and move on but we do need it to be

faster so let's reduce the number of

points in the circle and he's also way

too big so let's shrink him down okay

very nice okay and now I needed some

code to draw rectangles so I wrote that

from scratch and this should draw the

bird and one of the

pipes yeah sure that's that's something

sure uh yeah still not a rectangle but

we are getting

closer oh yes that's the stuff we got a

bird we got a pipe baby that's all you

need once again is kind of different

every time we run it but uh we've

already solved this by calling this a

fature all right everyone shut up ready

ready ready boom fluffy bir yes the

frame rate of this game is going to be

[ __ ] atrocious that was so slow but I

think that's as good as we're getting

okay let's get some colors in this [ __ ]

to change colors we're just going to

quickly click on the color we want

before we draw the stuff so it'll be

like yellow then draw bird then green

then draw pipes you know you know how

paint works it's like that let's also

have the black and be blue yeah that's

pretty okay I've done a thing you

ready yeah yeah yeah yes look at him

he's so handsome a all let's try

actually moving the pipes [ __ ] should

move

now oh

no h all right so we're going to need to

clear out the screen once we've done

drawing a single frame a same person

would probably do like a control a

delete and then paint the background but

[ __ ] that I'm a

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just beautiful

fantastic oh

no every time the bird's

different all right so I haven't

actually coded any of the game playay

like all I've done is draw a bird um so

let's actually make this Fluffy

Bird I'm making flppy

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birdap I'm making flppy

bird okay let's do this oh okay it's

it's over here now but it is falling

it's not clearing properly but ignore

that we got gravity in Microsoft Paint

let's go oh yeah that's not right uh

hello hello what the [ __ ] yeah that's

not a problem don't worry about that

okay let's run it back I I don't know

why the bird is green now just Just go

with it it's fine okay what happens when

a hit space does it flap no it breaks

everything that's a nice feature that's

great okay a bird's looking good it's

the right color I didn't change anything

but it works now and do we have a flap

oh we got it we got a flap let's get

let's get an action replay of that bad

boy oh that's the good [ __ ] that's what

we do this for yeah okay I made the bird

smaller and the Gap a little bigger so

you can actually [ __ ] play the game

this is miserable let's let's speed this

up a bit so you can actually watch it

oh he's through oh don't worry about

that oh oh what is what is going

[Laughter]

on a what now all that's left is add

some collision and death logic so the

bird just doesn't fly straight through

the pipes and we got Flappy Bird baby

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easy

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no why why are you like

this you

dead you

dead what a game y as I said Microsoft

Paint is a game engine B tier better

than un I don't know why I said that

like I've got a teer list going this is

the only one that I've

rated chat gbt is a game it's got

everything you need it can even draw

your mom a what the what the [ __ ] is

that is this what my audience looks like

it can also make Flappy Bird okay I want

you to draw a screenshot of the Flappy

Bird game in asy art with the background

represented with stars and the bird

represented with this little arrow I

don't know what that is end of the pipes

represented by square

brackets oh actually not bad actually I

thought it would be way worse it didn't

really do the background star thing but

that's okay I think this is better the

pipes should be

vertical okay that's looking good there

should be a gap in the pipes oh for [ __ ]

okay it begins the Gap should split a

single vertical pipe into two vertical

pipes

no yeah it was ambitious that that would

fix it the vertical pipes should be

aligned so they are above each

other okay this is starting to piss me

off you know what Flappy Bird is right

oh what is that what that is so much

worse why are there two

birds hm I I don't know is that bad I

don't know why is there a

square m that's the same [ __ ] thing

oh okay that actually helped it that's

okay okay actually close but can you

remove the square around the bird

starting to get proper mad now get rid

of the

square okay progress okay now get rid of

the horizontal lines you're [ __ ]

joking this piece of [ __ ] thinks he's

funny he got rid of these lines no

obviously not what I'm talking about bro

not those ones the ones around the

bird almost there the still horizontal

lines

though yes yes yes oh my God okay great

now can you have the game moved to the

next game State assume the bird is

falling ah for [ __ ] sake where's the

top pipe gone okay it's back but it's

[ __ ] again the top and bottom pipes

are misaligned

now okay you changed nothing whatever

let's just try to play the game proceed

to the next game State okay that kind of

did something it moved down I think I

don't know what changed actually okay

now next game state but I

flapped oh okay that did go up have the

pipes move left every game

State I think it moved the bird okay

whatever let's keep going okay next

state

next

next

next the pipes aren't

moving they still aren't moving what

what are we do move the pipes

left next

frame next

frame next

frame move the [ __ ]

pipes this game sucks all right you know

what no you can't you can't [ __ ] do

it CH is not a game engine whatever [ __ ]

moving on

Jesus

Premier Pro is a game engine this piece

of [ __ ] is why it takes me four [ __ ]

months to make a video it's got

everything you need except for the

ability to Not Crash all the [ __ ]

time okay here's the play create a new

premier pro project add a bird add a

wall drag the bird into the timeline

boom and you're probably thinking I know

what this guy's going to do the bird's

probably going to move around here in

the video preview um and the pipes will

come from here and stuff but n no no no

no no that's some [ __ ] [ __ ] all we need

is this bad boy right here yeah yeah

yeah yeah yeah don't believe me watch

this boom

bird now we just need to make like 4,000

lanes and by using keyboard shortcuts we

can move our boy up and down okay bird

done okay it's pipe time it's pip pip

FIP it's p time it's p time got to get

that [ __ ] P time

yeah all right are you seeing my vision

now are you seeing my genius okay so we

can move the bird up and down but what

about moving it through the pipes I

found a hotkey that moves the selected

clip to the playhead which the playhead

is like this line here which is

basically what the preview screen is

showing like where in the video we are I

don't know if you use editing software

whatever you figure it out so when you

play this video it moves through the

pipes and if we are constantly moving

this clip to the playhead it'll follow

it mix up some up and down movement and

we got the most annoying version of

flappy bird I've ever experienced but

technically we're getting close and God

that [ __ ] sound is going to get old

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quick all right let's actually get some

gravity and flapping happening up until

this point it's just been moving like up

and down periodically which is not

Flappy birad this is it on a longer

course I've tried everything to make

this actually not look like [ __ ] but the

main problem is just this snapping to

the play head is very inconsistent uh so

it's always just going to look like [ __ ]

if we keep using that we can just move

the bird to the right using hot keys so

it doesn't follow the playhead which is

smoother but there's a small

problem oh he just kind of leaves huh

okay yeah that's not IDE deal morale was

low I had hit rock bottom was Premier

Pro not a game engine after all were all

the haters right but then I had an

epiphany if you can't move the bird

through the pipes then move the pipes

through the

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bird yeah this didn't work at all if you

have the pipe selected then you can't

move the bird like you can't have two

separate versions of things selected so

it's no longer Flappy Bird it's just

bird which is not as fun morale was low

I had hit rock bottom was Premier Pro

not if you can't flap the bird then flap

the

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P this is so [ __ ]

stupid oh and it looks so

Jank if we speed it up and track the

footage so it looks like the birds

moving and not the pipes then we got it

it's Flappy Bird no still good we

haven't been fully cut off yet so we're

still good okay yeah now we're dead now

we're dead that's

fair Premier Pro is a gaming engine it's

a [ __ ] one but it is a gaming engine

also here it is like zoomed out and

tracked I don't know if that's better or

worse than the zoomed in I don't know

but whatever here it is you're

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PowerPoint that should be possible Excel

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