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ing birds with no visible legs or wings. While the picture gave no clue as to what type of game was being played, the staff liked the characters, and the team elected to design a game around them. In early 2009, physics games, such as Crush the Castle, were popular flash-based web games, so the Rovio team was inspired by these games. Iisalo and the company’s other developers had already put forward a number of ideas, all of which had been rejected by Rovio’s directors for being either too complicated, too simplistic or too boring. What would hit the spot? Iisalo knew it had to be something fun, something with a strong central character. Suddenly, an idea began to form in his head. Switching on Photoshop, the designer started sketching a flock of fat, round birds with big yellow beaks, thick eyebrows and intense, slightly crazed expressions on their faces. They had no legs to speak of, but, despite this drawback, were racing manically along the ground towards some sort of castle. During the development of Angry Birds, the staff realized the birds needed an enemy. At the time, the "swine flu" epidemic was in the news, so the staff made the birds' enemies pigs. Angry Birds was the studio's 52nd produced game and on its initial release, the game did not sell many copies. After Angry Birds was a featured app on the UK App Store in February 2010 and quickly reached No.1 there, it reached the No. 1 spot on the paid apps chart in the US App Store in the middle of 2010 and then stayed there for 275 days. Videos Used under Creative Commons: Crush the castle: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f1HWyfxMrLI Angry Birds 1-1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aS0L2mWrOAs Angry Birds Rio: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rrf6oDZuTb4 Angry Birds Star Wars: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GDx6eVA089k Angry Birds Space: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D0pDMaKHctA Mighty Hoax 1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9mqvIOmH6e4 Mighty Hoax 2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BeRRL9cfBRA Mighty Hoax 3: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4f7mjNbGsLc The Big Setup: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_UyA69j2PZQ Angry Birds Peace Treaty: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bMltvlqEM54 Angry Birds Movie: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cNduTd3I3bU Angry Birds Merch: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UTZOL-i_g5w Sounds used: Background music: "Lewis and Dekalb" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/b... Bensound.com energy intro Bensound.com dreams outro __________________ iOS Game Updates www.iosgameupdates.com Facebook: www.facebook.com/iosgameupdates Instagram: www.instagram.com/iosgameupdates Like, comment and share!