Angry Birds

What is ANGRY BIRDS?   

      

       Angry Birds  is originally, a puzzle video game by Finland-based Rovio Mobile. Released for Apple's iOS in December 2009. Angry Birds inspired primarily by a sketch of wingless birds. Since that time, 12 million copies of game purchased from Apple's Application Store.

       In order to destroy all the pigs on the playfield, the players need to use the slingshot to launch birds at pigs. As players go through the game, new birds with their own special abilities appear. Bored with destroying only pigs, Rovio Mobile supported Angry Birds with numerous free updates, even the stand-alone holiday and promotional versions of the game. From a level to another, from pigs to monkeys. From playfield to beaches.


     As a result for it's successful combination of addictive gameplay, comical style and low price, Angry Birds finally being created for Personal Computers and gaming consoles. The popularity of this game keeps on rising until there's a long-term plans for feature film or television series.


   Surprisingly, 250 million downloads across all platforms and including both regular and special editions, the game has been called "one of the most mainstream games out right now", "one of the great runway hits of 2010", and "largest mobile application success the world has seen so far".

Who is the designer?

   Jaakko Lisalo, the senior game designer came up with a proposal in the form of a stimulated screenshot featuring some angry-looking birds with no visible legs or wings. *Logical thinking, no wonder those birds needed a slingshot. haha

Development

    As the concept of Angry Birds was developed, the staff realized, the birds needed enemy. At that time,the "swine flu" epidemic was in the news, so the staff made the birds enemies pigs. The game mechanics were inspired by petrary physics games that have been released over the year, including another 2009 release, Crush the Castle . 

    

      Rovio partnered with distributor Chillingo(electronic arts; publisher,marketer and distributor) to publish the game to Apple's Application Store. As Rovio writes a new version of this game, they have encountered a major problem, nearly 30 types of Android phones could not run the game. Why? Because the new combination of software version, processor speed and even user interfaces was larger than that for the earlier Apple iOS version. A month later Rovio began designing a simpler version for these other devices.

Release of Angry Birds

 

     Single episode of "Poached Eggs" containing 3 themed chapters with 21 levels, released in February 2010 the new version "Mighty Hoax" with 2 chapters with 21 levels, April 2010 "Golden Eggs" , "Danger Above", "The Big Set Up". December 2010, "Ham 'em High", introducing the mighty Eagle to be used once in every hour to complete levels that you could not complete. AWESOME! 

  

      "Bad Piggy Bank" and the sixth episode is "Mine and Dine". I have never heard of most of their episodes. I started playing angry birds few months ago and people all over the world had been playing for years. How excited to see those birds fighting those monkeys, but God, they were "ancient" enemies already! 

  

* go and download angry birds now! I saw angry birds dolls and etc somewhere in Times Square Kuala Lumpur last few weeks. :) Go get yours! Have a good time people! Thank you for reading~ Hugs!