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This is not a good game. It's much harder to control the fraction and keep it from impacting the obstacles (or the edges) than Flappy Bird, and there's no explanation that you can safely touch fractions of the same value. And given that the score increases by powers of two, I have no idea why it's divided by three at all.

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It's probably because thirds rhymes with bird.

"Hey, what if we designed our entire core game mechanic around a pun?"

From the README:

> # This is a terrible game

And the github title:

> a pun

https://github.com/tef/flappythirds

> This is not a good game.

And neither was Flappy Bird.

I feel like there's some sort of lesson here somewhere.

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