The game idea has potential but needs a bit of polish. It's very difficult to smash the birds.
Here's a small suggestion on my part: Make it so that you have to time the smash with the beats of the music and make the birds move less randomly. Also having to type smash gets kinda boring, it would be fun if you used arrows and made random combos that you had to do. I can see this becoming a very satisfying game!
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I agree with all of that except for the part of adding more interactions. At some point it just becomes a rhythm game like any other but with a flappy bird theme. By using this one specific word, the mechanic is tied in. The whole game is kept short, its intentionally disposable. It's a microgame. You experience it, you are surprised by it, it ends, you go on with life.
But timing things up with the music and making the pipes work better, you're definitely correct on.
Thank you for playing and the feedback!