MetaFilter posts tagged with angrybirds

The Physics of Bad Piggies

Artw — Mon, 07 Jan 2013 06:30:37 -0800

The physics of Bad Piggies: Scale, mass, scale again, balloons and friction.

"Paintings created by performing routine tasks on multi-touch hand held computing devices."

the man of twists and turns — Tue, 18 Dec 2012 07:03:25 -0800

The Winning Swipe For Every Level Of Angry Birds Angry Birds All Levels is a work by Evan Roth, part of his Multi Touch, which "comments on the rise of casual gaming, identity and our relationship with mobile devices." It is on display at the Science Gallery in Dublin.

How do you draw schadenfreude?

delmoi — Fri, 04 May 2012 13:45:56 -0800

The Popularity of Draw Something crashes, just few weeks after being purchased by purchased by Zynga for $200 million, leading to one acrimonious resignation of a developer who didn't want to give up the rights to his personal project, a game called puzzle game called Connectrode (The ensuing twitter fight resulted in a callout of OMGPOP's CEO by Notch. This on the heals of Angry Birds maker Rovio turning down $2.25 billion to get bought out by them. ZNGA is down 43% since march 5th, and 12.3% since its IPO in December.

Just One More Game.

Stagger Lee — Wed, 04 Apr 2012 12:57:19 -0800

Angry Birds, Farmville and Other Hyperaddictive ‘Stupid Games.' Does what it says on the box: plus, cute space ship graphics and exploding comments. Hopefully you can view this without registering or paying. Apologies in advance for anyone who can't.

"One small fling for a bird, one quantum leap for birdkind."

obscurator — Thu, 22 Mar 2012 08:38:59 -0800

"A space station is a serious place. We're doing serious research." Rovio and NASA further explore the classic avain-porcine rivalry (and microgravity) through a Space Act Agreement. Angry Birds: Space is launching today.

How Google (and Rovio) Ported Angry Birds to HTML5

jenkinsEar — Wed, 28 Dec 2011 11:19:11 -0800

Joel Webber, a Google engineer who created the Google Web Toolkit and is working on the new Dart language, gave an incredibly detailed hour and a half talk about how Angry Birds was ported to HTML5 for the Chrome app store.

From Piggi Hedron to Mario DeNiro

oneswellfoop — Thu, 27 Oct 2011 14:11:17 -0800

Alfred Hitchcock's Angry Birds and other movies-based-on-video-games the way they should be done (Duck Hunt & Donkey Kong) from the G4 people. (SL3Videos, NSFW language, gore)

Theme Park Piracy

finite — Fri, 16 Sep 2011 16:57:33 -0800

An unauthorized Angry Birds theme park has opened in China. There is also a Blizzard-themed park called Joyland.

If you have work to do today, please consider doing that work before installing Angry Birds.

East Manitoba Regional Junior Kabaddi Champion '94 — Wed, 11 May 2011 11:41:40 -0800

Angry Birds beta, free for Google Chrome. Previously. Conan.

Angry Birds Middle East Mashup

artlung — Wed, 30 Mar 2011 07:12:37 -0800

Russian designer Egor Zhgun (LiveJournal) remixes pop culture and politics, to humorous effect. His latest is a mashup of "Who's Afraid of the Big Bad Wolf?"; the game Angry Birds; and current Middle Eastern politics into an animated political cartoon: Three Big Pigs.
via Eathan Zuckerman and Cartoon Brew

Angry Birds

AceRock — Thu, 10 Mar 2011 08:13:17 -0800

How Rovio made Angry Birds a winner. Also, a "cognitive teardown" of the Angry Birds user experience.

Angry Birds, the SLYT.

CunningLinguist — Wed, 24 Nov 2010 06:11:48 -0800

Angry Birds, the Peace Treaty

Release the pigs!

Artw — Fri, 15 Oct 2010 14:12:43 -0800

Angry Birds, the iPhone gaming sensation (and possible movie), is now available on Android for free in ad supported form. Not got a fancy phone? Maybe you can play the home game.