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Bad Piggies | |
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Developer(s) | Rovio Entertainment |
Producer(s) | Petri Järvilehto, Mikael Hed, Jaakko Haapasalo |
Designer(s) | Markus Tuppurainen, Peter Urbanics |
Programmer(s) | Marco Rapino, Miika Virpioja, Mauricio Hollando, Jussi Markkanen |
Composer(s) | Ilmari Hakkola |
Series | Angry Birds |
Engine | Unity[2] |
Platform(s) | Android, iOS, Windows, Mac OS X, BlackBerry 10, Windows Phone[3] |
Release | September 27, 2012–July 2019 (6 years, 9 months, 1 week and 4 days) [1] January 20, 2020 (re-release) |
Genre(s) | Puzzle |
Mode(s) | Single-player |
Bad Piggies is a side-scrolling puzzle video game developed by Rovio Entertainment, and was the company's first spin-off in the Angry Birds series. The game launched on Android, iOS, Windows, and Mac on September 27, 2012. It was released for BlackBerry 10 in October 2013 and for Windows Phone in April 2014.[4] Unlike the Angry Birds games, the player assists the pigs in building contraptions that travel on land and in air to collect pieces of a map to ultimately capture and take away the birds' eggs.[5][6] As of October 2012, Bad Piggies was the fastest-selling game on the Apple App Store,[1] and the quickest one to reach the top of the app list in just three hours.[7]
In June 2014, Rovio made Bad Piggies free-to-play, since it previously had a purchase price. Advertisements were also implemented.
Between April 2019 and July 2019, the game was removed from the Google Play Store and iOS App Store respectively. However, in early 2020, the game was relisted worldwide.
In May 2023, a sequel titled Bad Piggies 2 was soft launched on iOS and Android devices,[8] but was later discontinued at the end of October that same year.