Timberman Hits Number One Spot On Play Store And Is As Frustratingly Addictive As Flappy Bird

Remember Flappy Bird?

Of course you do. Well, people are already calling Timberman the next Flappy Bird.

In Timberman, players embrace their inner lumberjacks and chop down trees while avoiding falling branches. The game is animated in an 8-bit art style and has quickly reached the top of the Google Play Store.

Just like all good Android games, the gameplay is easy to learn and difficult to master. Getting good at this game requires as much dexterity, skill, and quick thinking as Flappy Bird.

Unlike Flappy Bird, there’s a game beyond the game. As you chop down more trees, you can unlock new characters.

Timberman is free to download but will display advertisements during gameplay. You can pay a 99 cent fee to unlock the ad-free version of the game.

Surprisingly, Timberman works on Android 2.2 and up.

You should probably download Timberman today before the developer goes crazy and pulls it from the Google Play Store because he’s sick of making $50,000 per day (right Dong Nguyen?).

I don’t like this new trend of calling every difficult Android app “the next Flappy Bird”, but here we are. You can download Timberman today from the Google Play Store by clicking here.

Google Play Store Finally Lets You Flag Apps As Inappropriate

Anyone can submit an app to the Google Play Store.

Your app doesn’t go through an approval process before it’s available for anyone to download. And, as long as your app doesn’t explicitly violate Google’s terms of service policy, it can stay up there for a surprisingly long time.

Now, things might change.

Today, Google finally added a “Flag As Inappropriate” button to the Google Play Store. This button lets you flag malicious or inappropriate apps.

It seems crazy that Google waited so long to add this link to its flagship app store. Previously, the only way to report a bad app was to login to the Android app and report it on your mobile device.

Unfortunately, the “Flag As Inappropriate” button isn’t perfect. After clicking that button, you’re taken to a page on Google Support. That page describes different reasons why you would flag an app.

After a few more clicks, you can finally find a submission form where you explain why that app is bad.

How many users are going to bother walking through those steps to basically do Google’s job for them?

Today, every online service from Twitter to YouTube seems to have a “Flag As Inappropriate” button which make it easy for users to report inappropriate behavior. On the Google Play Store, for whatever reason, Google doesn’t seem to be taking the same approach.

In any case, this is a good step in the right direction for Google – but it’s not going to clean up the messy Google Play Store overnight.