A few weeks ago I started building something I kept wishing existed, and now it’s actually live: https://flappy.hive-roshambo.com/
It’s called Flappy Hive, basically a daily Flappy Bird-style game that runs in the browser and connects directly to Hive.
The idea is intentionally simple. Every day, everyone gets the exact same pipe pattern, generated from a shared daily seed that resets at midnight UTC. You can play as many times as you want, mess up as much as you want, and when you finally get a run you feel good about, you can choose to publish that score on-chain. No tokens, no assets, no “figure this system out first” barrier. You just play.
I built this partly out of curiosity, and partly because I kept coming back to the same kind of experience.
Games like Wordle and Hivewords have this really nice rhythm to them — you open them, play a round, maybe think about it a bit after, and then come back the next day. There’s no pressure, no complexity, just a small daily moment that somehow sticks.
On Hive, I was hoping to find something with that same feel. Something lightweight, but still engaging enough to make you want to return tomorrow. I tried a few things, but nothing quite clicked in that specific way for me.
So eventually, instead of continuing to search, I decided to experiment and build my own take on that idea.
What surprised me is how much depth shows up from such a small twist.
Because everyone is playing the same layout each day, it feels fair in a very direct way. If someone beats you, they just played it better. And when you publish a score, the full replay gets stored on-chain. Anyone can open it and watch exactly how you played, flap by flap. It turns the leaderboard into something a bit more alive, because you’re not just comparing scores, you’re comparing runs.
The daily reset helps more than I expected too. It clears everything at midnight, so there’s always a clean slate waiting. No long-term domination, no “I can’t catch up anyway” feeling. Just a new day, new pipes, new chance to do better.
There’s also this small decision point that ended up being my favorite part: when to publish. You can lock in your score early and hope it holds, or keep pushing for something better and risk running out of time. It adds a tiny bit of tension that makes each run feel like it matters more than it probably should.
And yeah, I added streaks. Publish at least one score a day and it ticks up. Miss a day and it resets. I remember enjoying wordle and Hivewords so much I’m already at the point where I don’t want to break my streaks.
Regarding devices, my goal is for this game to works pretty much anywhere. Desktop, mobile browser, no install. If you’re on mobile you can just log in with Hive Keychain and play. It only ever asks for posting authority, so nothing sensitive is involved.
If you don’t have a Hive account, you can still open the game, try a practice mode with random pipes, and watch other people’s replays. So at the very least, you can see what it’s about without committing to anything.
If you feel like trying it, just jump in, play a few runs, and see how far you get. And if you do publish a score, feel free to drop your replay link somewhere.
I think it will be lot of fun watching how other people approach the same pattern.
This is very much a solo project and still evolving. If something feels off, confusing, or just not fun on your device, I’d really like to hear about it. More than anything, I’m trying to figure out what makes something like this worth coming back to every day.
Anyway, that’s Flappy Hive.
Now I should probably go make sure no one beats my score before midnight 😄
