Angry Birds

It all started when newspapers introduced engaging games which challenged our intelligence, they meant no harm(sort of) and after centuries came digital gaming era, to me they all had one thing incommon, engage the audience and create a new breed of anti-social species.

World of gaming completely changed with the advent of smartphones phones, but this left the gamers divided in two, complex gamers with a gaming IQ of 1000 (not to insult gamers this number may be adjusted according to your kills in modern warfare 3) and simple gamers who were there just to kill time (I do not suggest their IQ to be any lower, just so you know).

Amidst of all the play boxes and stations, one needs to stay mobile, sneaky audience, seems to shut down their consoles to live a life, we need mobility. The 80’s geeks are probably laughing so hard right about now, remember when you used to pick on them for being glued to their Atari, playing ping pong or galaxy…yeah its payback time.

In between all these conflicts a new war was declared between birds and pigs, to be fair the pigs started it, all they wanted was some fried eggs for breakfast, which naturally angered birds and now they are out to take revenge on the green pigs who stole the their eggs.

It’s a battle which requires you to catapult the titular angry birds at a series of structures built by some devious pigs. Oh boy and this battle picked up big time and took angry birds on top of the charts on iTunes in 2010.

“Let me tell ya, these ain’t no ordinary finches we are talking about. These here are the Angry Birds, the ones that’s going to kick you in the ‘nads  and they’re the ones on your side. They must be from Galapadapados, or sumptin’.” – Col. Angus.

As this tweet by world famous bird expert suggests no one supported pigs but they are still holding fort and laugh at your every miss. 

Key to the addictiveness of this game is its simplicity (again not suggesting at all that it is aimed at the dim witted) just drag your finger over the catapult to aim your bird, then let go and watch it fly across the screen to the target. However, the tricky part is twofold: first, working out which bits of the pigs’ fortress you should target and second, getting your shots to land in the right places by using unique destructive powers of angry birds.

Each of 120 levels takes less than a minute to play so this makes each second wasted count. It gets too frustrating when one stray block falls in the wrong place and wrecks our otherwise perfectly executed plan. Angry Birds features hours of gameplay, challenging physics-based castle demolition, which requires simple logic to crush evil green pigs.

What boggles the mind is the amount of media the game has been able to muster up, fans all over the world have posted tons of videos for the love of Angry Birds, also to keep its big wheel going the game releases season specials such as Christmas and Halloween. Rovio a Finnish computer game developer have us cornered, our black magic phone pulls us towards it during a highly superficial brand plans or concepts are being presented or even in between red and green lights on road...ARRGH!!!! (Must shoot pigs….)

A random guy on a bus once declared “Protect global warming or play Angry Birds!”

Next up we have an alligator in a tub, fruit massacre and terrorists paradise, flight control.

Revised version published in Aurora Magazine Dawn Group (Annual issue 2011)