Angry Birds developer gets all Flappy with its latest mobile release

In a time before Flappy Bird, developers were mostly afraid to make difficult games. Now, the developer of Angry Birds is expecting you to die so often in its latest release that it is calling it “Retry.”

Rovio, the Finnish studio responsible for the world-famous slingshot-flinging fowls, just debuted its latest mobile game. Retry has nothing to do with Angry Birds — although it is similar to that other avian-based game, Flappy Bird. It features a small propeller plane that can only perform loops. Players must guide the erratic aircraft through an 8-bit-style world filled with obstacles without touching them … and you’re going to touch them. Retry is out now in Canada, Finland, and Poland as part of a soft launch, and Rovio intends to release it worldwide soon on “app stores.”