But anger, a hit by Rovio, a small Finnish company, game birds is a pop-culture unlikeliest year - fads and perhaps the first to jump screens cellphone for the general public.
Birds in anger, in which the contrast of seeking birds on pigs fly eggs and is supposed to be read easily in the starting line and during other short Windows downtime - but some players have difficulty stopping. Rovio says people around the world up to 200 million minutes of play rack every day. (This means that it is aged 16 human bird - throw every hour.)
The game has inspired parodies and tributes ardent testimonials. House of birds in anger costumes were the biggest hits on Halloween. Conan O'Brien demonstrated the game in a video from YouTube promotion of her new show and a sketch of Israeli television on a Treaty of peace with birds and pigs was popular online. Justin Bieber and other celebrities have professed their love of birds anger on social networks.
Games like birds anger reaches a wide audience of players who could never consider buying an Xbox or PlayStation, but are now carrying sophisticated in their pockets - gaming machines smartphones. Developers of software, wishing to become the next Rovio create so-called for this crowd, games that are easy to learn and hard to stop playing casual games.
The trajectory of birds anger also suggests a greater shift in entertainment and the types of marks that can win the popularity. Unlike many of the most famous video games console - like the classic Super Mario Bros. Nintendo or Call of Duty series, later of Activision - birds anger as cell phone games are often made by small businesses and hook in mouth.
"There is no more than the formula," said James l. McQuivey, an analyst at Forrester Research, which examines digital entertainment. "Regardless of where it starts: a ringtone, video game, the book." It is a shooting big time. »
On cell phones, has he added, "anyone with expertise, an idea and good character encoding may hang without having to spend 100 million on film and commercialization."
Anya Richardson, a technical writer and a Publisher in Mulhall, Oklahoma, swept in the popularity of birds in anger when Roenick, 8-year old son asked a game-based birthday cake. Mrs. Richardson has spent nearly 80 hours to prepare a mixture of two floors which included hand replicas of cranky fowl play.
"His birthday is in October, but I couldn't finish the cake in November," she says.
Beloved son cake in as long as he never cut us", said Ms. Richardson. "I have spoken finally leaving him with us to get rid of it, but he kept most of the bird figures."
A picture of the cake ricocheted Web. "Requests from people who want a cast on Twitter and email," she says.
Jordan Finley, 30 years old, who works at a legal consulting firm in Los Angeles, said that he and her boyfriend are these big fans of the game that they decided to create the body full bird costume for Halloween.
"It was crazy," said Mr. Finley. "The people who recognize that it did not understand, but people who knew the game loved it." Everyone wanted to take pictures. It considers as being chased by the paparazzi or something. »
Fans of the game took the streets on Saturday for the feast of birds in anger, celebrate its first anniversary. Rovio has worked with Web Meetup.com service to help organize rallies in New York, London, Jakarta, Budapest and dozens of other cities, but fans stepped up to lead rallies. Rovio said it will create levels of birds for the top 10 cities celebrating the day of birds in anger angry.
Although the Rovio has published two dozen other mobile games, none come close to the success of birds in anger, approximately $100,000 to costs, which has been downloaded 50 million times in the last year. Version paid for iPhone costs 99 cents to the United States has helped more than 8 million dollars of revenue; Apple said last week that it was the best-selling 2010 iPhone application. The free version for phones running Google's Android software is expected to produce 1 million dollars per month in advertising revenues at the end of the year, says Rovio.
Peter Vesterbacka, head of the Rovio development of business in North America said that the game was born when a designer Rovio outlined outline plain red bird bright expression furious. "We didn't know what would be the concept of game, but we loved the birds," he said. "The game complete with the storyline was built around these birds".
Mr. Vesterbacka stated that the company took advice for complex scenarios in movies Pixar and popularity of Mario and Luigi, Super Mario Bros.. Birds anger stars express not themselves much except gurgles and grunts, but players seem to be connecting with them all the same.
"When thousands of people start dressing like your characters, you know that you are on something," said Mr. Vesterbacka.
Rovio seeks to capitalize on its success and works on versions of birds in anger for game consoles and PC, with a line of stuffed birds and pigs. She also wishes voting spin in a film or television programme for children.
Rovio is smart to make angry, birds choose said Jesse Schell, Professor at Carnegie Mellon who studied set design and entertainment technology. "You can break things and this is it," he said. "Imagine if they were cute little birds." It might be kind of strange on some, but most people would probably a little is postponed. »
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