Angry Birds

The Logo of the game.

Angry Birds is a series of puzzle video games developed by Rovio Entertainment from Finland. In the game, the player uses a slingshot to launch birds. The goal is to use them to shoot pigs that are on different buildings.

The Angry Birds series has over a dozen games. A spin off game, in which you play as the pigs, was also released called Bad Piggies on September 27, 2012.

Gameplay

The player uses a slingshot to launch the birds at the pigs that are standing on buildings made of blocks. Each level gives the player a line of birds; the bird sitting on the slingshot is launched when the player pulls the bird back. The bird behind it jumps up, and it is the next bird to be launched.

When a bird is launched, it can hit the buildings and make the blocks break. This can make the pigs fall and disappear. The bird can also hit the pig itself to destroy it. The player has to destroy all the pigs in the map to unlock another level.

Rovio Mobile has supported their games with many free updates that add more features and levels. In each game, there are themed groups of levels. Every group has a simple story: the pigs stole the birds’ eggs, so the birds try to get them back. Each story ends with the birds getting the eggs back.

Characters

There are several kinds of birds and pig enemies in the game series. The birds are round, and do not have wings or feet. The pigs also have no feet. The pigs are all green. In the animated series and books, the characters have different personalities.

The Flock (main birds)

• Red is the angry leader of the flock. He likes taking care of the eggs. He does nothing but does make various battle cries when tapped and does great at popping pigs. In Angry Birds 2, his scream can push structures down.
• The Blues (Jay, Jake, and Jim) are blue birds who are triplets. They love playing games and pulling pranks on others. In the games, they seem to appear as one bird. When the screen is tapped, they split into three smaller birds. They work best against glass. There is a cartoon based on them called Angry Birds Blues.
• Chuck is a yellow bird with a triangle body. He moves and acts fast, but he is very prideful. Chuck picks up speed and distance when tapped. His power works best against wood.
• Bomb is a black bird that looks like a round bomb. When he feels strong emotions like anger, he explodes. In the games, he explodes when tapped or shortly upon impact. His explosions work the best against stone.
• Matilda is a white bird who is sweet and friendly. She likes gardening and acts like a mother to the flock. In the games, she drops an egg bomb that explodes on impact when tapped and damages wood and stone the most.
• Hal is a green toucan with a long beak. He is friendly and calm. Because of his beak, he comes back like a boomerang when tapped and damages wood and glass the most.
• Terence is a large, dark red bird. He does not move or talk much, and mostly growls. He has no special abilities when tapped, but is heavy and destroys materials with ease.
• Bubbles is an orange bird who was introduced in Angry Birds Seasons in the "Ham'o'Ween" update. He has lots of energy and loves eating candy on Halloween. He inflates to a huge size like a balloon when tapped or upon impact, then deflates a little later. He works best against wood.
• Stella is a pink bird who was introduced in Angry Birds Seasons in the "Back to School" update. She is cheerful and bubbly, but she can get angry when somebody lets her down. In the old games, when tapped, she makes a bubble around her, and lifts up objects like blocks and pigs. The bubbles last for about 3 seconds. She had her own game and animated cartoon called Angry Birds Stella. In that game, she bounces off walls to attack.
• Silver is a gray falcon who was introduced in Angry Birds 2 in 2015. She was raised by the pigs as a young bird. In the game, she loops in the sky and dives downwards. However, in The Angry Birds Movie 2, Silver is Chuck's sister who loves inventing.
• Melody is a beige potoo introduced in Angry Birds 2 in 2022. She is calm and loves singing jazz music. She inhales nearby objects and spits them out.

Stella's flock

• Poppy is a light yellow cockatiel. She loves playing her drums and pulling pranks.
• Luca is a light blue scrub jay and the only boy in Stella's flock. He is also the youngest bird, and he does not like to follow the rules.
• Willow is a western crowned pigeon who wears a striped cap. She loves painting but is a bit shy.
• Dahlia is a tan owl. She loves doing experiments and inventing.
• Gale is a purple bird who used to be Stella's friend. She left Stella's flock after she found a crown, and is seen as a queen by the pigs of Golden Island. In the Angry Birds Stella cartoon, she tries to search for the Golden Egg with the pigs.

Other birds

• Mighty Eagle is a large bald eagle who lives in his cave. He is old and wise, but does not like being disturbed. He can appear by launching a can of sardines with the slingshot. When it hits the ground, he will cause an earthquake to defeat the pigs. In the original game, he must be purchased in-game for 99 cents to be used. He can be used for an unlimited number of times, except in Angry Birds Friends. In The Angry Birds Movie 2, he had an ex-wife named Zeta.
• Zeta is the main villain of The Angry Birds Movie 2 and the leader of Eagle Island. She is a purple eagle to tries to destroy Bird Island and Piggy Island.
• Ice Bird is an alien bird made of ice who appears in Angry Birds Space. He explodes and everything near him freezes to ice. This makes it easier for The Blues to destroy them.
• Tony is Terence's cousin from Helsinki, Finland. They look almost the same, except Tony is light blue and has thicker feathers. He first appears in Angry Birds Seasons.
• Jo is a turquoise and black bird-of-paradise who loves dancing. They are non-binary, and appeared quickly in Angry Birds 2 for LGBTQ Pride Month in 2023.
• Ruby (then called Girl Bird or Female Red Bird) is a red bird who first appeared in the "Hogs and Kisses" update as Red's girlfriend. In 2024, a fan version where she is Red's younger sister became official in Angry Birds Friends. She is almost as angry as Red.

Pigs

• King Pig is the leader of the pigs of Piggy Island. He is a greedy, large pig who loves food. His goal is to get and eat the eggs of the Angry Birds.
• Leonard is King Pig's father, who first appeared in The Angry Birds Movie. He is also called King Mudbeard because of his beard. He is playable in Angry Birds 2.
• Foreman Pig is an old pig with a mustache. He is very bossy and wants work to be done quickly. He leads the pigs in building the structures.
• Corporal Pig is a pig with a helmet. He is very angry and tries to train the Minion Pigs.
• Chef Pig is King Pig's royal cook. He has a long, twirly mustache and a chef hat. He secretly wants to be the king instead of King Pig.
• The Minion Pigs are the many smaller pigs who live in Piggy Island. King Pig rules them all. Minion Pigs love having fun, but King Pig commands them to steal the eggs.
  • Ross is a Minion Pig with freckles. In Bad Piggies, the player helps him build vehicles to steal the eggs.
  • Big Bork is a large pig in Angry Birds Space who loves eating food. He is the boss of the "Utopia" episode.
• Professor Pig is an old pig who is very smart. He does not like the birds and pigs fighting.
• Chronicler Pig is a pig who wears glasses and a judge wig. He is a historian and a judge.

Games

The first version of this game was released in December 2009 for Apple’s mobile operating system iOS (iPhone, iPad, iPod Touch). That release was a huge success so they decided to make versions for other mobile platforms (Maemo, webOS, Android, Symbian, Series 40 and Windows Phone). They also made versions even for computer operating systems (Mac OS, Windows) and gaming consoles (PlayStation, Xbox 360). There is also a version for Google’s social network Google Plus.

Because so many people liked this game, Rovio Mobile released new Angry Birds games: Angry Birds Seasons, Angry Birds Rio and Angry Birds Magic. The new games share the same goal as the first game. In Angry Birds Seasons, there are levels inspired by holidays or seasons. Angry Birds Rio is set in Rio de Janeiro and instead of pigs and wingless birds, there are monkeys and birds from the movie Rio.

Angry Birds Magic is a special edition of the game for Nokia; for more levels, you have to use NFC.

Levels

Angry Birds

Level Pack	Levels	Release Date
1. Poached Eggs	1-1 to 1-21 2-1 to 2-21 3-1 to 3-21	December 11, 2009
2. Mighty Hoax	4-1 to 4-21 5-1 to 5-21	February 10, 2010
3. Danger Above	6-1 to 6-15 7-1 to 7-15 8-1 to 8-15	April 25, 2010
4. The Big Setup	9-1 to 9-15 10-1 to 10-15 11-1 to 11-15	June 23, 2010
5. Ham 'Em High	12-1 to 12-15 13-1 to 13-15 14-1 to 14-15	December 20, 2010
6. Mine and Dine	15-1 to 15-15 16-1 to 16-15 17-1 to 17-15	June 22, 2011
7. Birdday Party	18-1 to 18-15 19-1 to 19-15	December 11, 2011
8. Surf And Turf	20-1 to 20-15 21-1 to 21-15 22-1 to 22-15	March 20, 2012 August 2, 2012 October 9, 2012
9. Bad Piggies		July 3, 2013 September 16, 2013
10. Reds Mighty Feathers

Angry Birds Seasons

Level Pack	Levels	Release Date
1. Trick or Treat	1-1 to 1-15 2-1 to 2-15 3-1 to 3-15	October 2010
2. Season's Greedings	1-1 to 1-25	December 2010
3. Hogs and Kisses	1-1 to 1-15	February 2011
4. Go Green, Get Lucky	1-1 to 1-15	March 2011
5. Easter Eggs	1-1 to 1-15	April 2011
6. Summer Pignic	1-1 to 1-30	June 2011
7. Mooncake Festival	1-1 to 1-15 2-1 to 2-15	September 2011
8. Ham'o'ween	1-1 to 1-15 2-1 to 2-15	October 2011
9. Wreck the Halls	1-1 to 1-25	December 2011
10. Year of the Dragon	1-1 to 1-15	January 2012
11. Cherry Blossom	1-1 to 1-15	March 2012
12. Piglantis	1-1 to 1-15 2-1 to 2-15	June 2012
13. Back to School	1-1 to 1-20	August 2012
14. Haunted Hogs	1-1 to 1-30	October, 2012
15. Winter Wonderham	1-1 to 1-25	December 2012
16. Abra-Ca-Bacon	1-1 to 1-15 2-1 to 2-15	May 2013

Angry Birds Rio

Level Pack	Levels	Release Date
1. Smugglers' Den	1-1 to 1-15 2-1 to 2-15	March 2011
2. Jungle Escape	3-1 to 3-15 4-1 to 4-15	March 2011
3. Beach Volley	5-1 to 5-15 6-1 to 6-15	May 2011
4. Carnival Upheaval	7-1 to 7-15 8-1 to 8-15	June 2011
5. Airfield Chase	9-1 to 9-15 10-1 to 10-15	August 2011
6. Smugglers' Plane	11-1 to 11-15 12-1 to 12-15	November 2011
7. Market Mayhem	13-1 to 13-15 14-1 to 14-15	March 2013
8. Golden Beachball (Bonus Episode)	1-1 to 1-15	August 2011

Angry Birds Space

Level Pack	Levels	Release Date
Pig Bang	1-1 to 1-30	March 2012
Cold Cuts	2-1 to 2-30	March 2012
Fry Me to the Moon	3-1 to 3-10	April 2012
Utopia	4-1 to 4-30	May 2012
Red Planet	5-1 to 5-30	August 2012
Pig Dipper	6-1 to 6-30	January 2013
Eggsteroids	E-1 to E-14	March 2012
Danger Zone	D-1 to D-30	March 2012

Reception

From December 2009 to November 2011 people downloaded more than 500 million copies of this game. It is the number one game in 79 countries. People played 266 billion levels and shot 400 billion birds. They played 200,000 years of Angry Birds in total and 300 million minutes daily.

Removal

In early 2019, the original Angry Birds game, Angry Birds Seasons, Angry Birds Rio, the two Angry Birds Star Wars games, and others were removed. This caused mass outrage among the fanbase. Rovio responded that the reason was because newer devices could not play the older games.

On March 31st 2022, a remade version of the original called Rovio Classics: Angry Birds was released for the App Store and Google Play. The Android version was removed in February 2023.

Related pages

• Angry Birds Space
• Angry Birds Go!
• Angry Birds Epic
• Bad Piggies
• Amazing Alex