Just One More Game ...Angry Birds, Farmville and Other Hyperaddictive ‘Stupid Games’
By SAM ANDERSON Published: April 4, 2012 New York Times
"In 2009, 25 years after the invention of Tetris, a nearly bankrupt Finnish company called Rovio hit upon a similarly perfect fusion of game and device: Angry Birds. The game involves launching peevish birds at green pigs hiding inside flimsy structures. Its basic mechanism — using your index finger to pull back a slingshot, over and over and over and over and over and over and over — was the perfect use of the new technology of the touch screen: simple enough to lure a suddenly immense new market of casual gamers, satisfying enough to hook them."
Craig Stern Chicago: Actually, what Rovio did was clone Crush the Castle, a free Flash game that was released 5 months before Angry Birds. Like so many games that succeed on the mobile platform, it was a shameless clone of a Flash developer's actual original work. The thought that they should be credited in the New York Times with achieving a "perfect fusion of game and device" makes me slightly nauseous.
Martin Lubell Wooster, OH, USA from Xavier Lubell, Age 10: Like in Angry Birds “launching peevish birds at green pigs hiding inside flimsy structures using your index finger to pull back a slingshot, over and over and over.” What you should have said is pigs have stolen all the angry birds’ eggs and they must fight back the evil pigs.
By SAM ANDERSON Published: April 4, 2012 New York Times
"In 2009, 25 years after the invention of Tetris, a nearly bankrupt Finnish company called Rovio hit upon a similarly perfect fusion of game and device: Angry Birds. The game involves launching peevish birds at green pigs hiding inside flimsy structures. Its basic mechanism — using your index finger to pull back a slingshot, over and over and over and over and over and over and over — was the perfect use of the new technology of the touch screen: simple enough to lure a suddenly immense new market of casual gamers, satisfying enough to hook them."
Craig Stern Chicago: Actually, what Rovio did was clone Crush the Castle, a free Flash game that was released 5 months before Angry Birds. Like so many games that succeed on the mobile platform, it was a shameless clone of a Flash developer's actual original work. The thought that they should be credited in the New York Times with achieving a "perfect fusion of game and device" makes me slightly nauseous.
Martin Lubell Wooster, OH, USA from Xavier Lubell, Age 10: Like in Angry Birds “launching peevish birds at green pigs hiding inside flimsy structures using your index finger to pull back a slingshot, over and over and over.” What you should have said is pigs have stolen all the angry birds’ eggs and they must fight back the evil pigs.
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