Bad Piggies Short Stories | #57

Описание: Shoutout to    / @jordana2045   for making the speech bubbles while I made the recording.
Bad Piggies is a physics-based puzzle game released by Rovio Entertainment on September 27, 2012, available on iOS, Android, Windows, and Mac—later reaching Windows Phone in April 2014.
🎯 Gameplay and Mechanics
Unlike Angry Birds, here you control the pigs—primarily Ross—to build contraptions (like carts, planes, rockets) using parts such as motors, fans, wings, ropes, balloons, TNT, and more


Over 200 levels are included, plus 9+ sandbox levels, and bonus challenges unlocked with 3-star achievements or collecting skulls .


Levels span episodes like Ground Hog Day, When Pigs Fly, Rise and Swine, Flight in the Night, and Road Hogs.
📊 Reception & Legacy
Named IGN’s Best Mobile Game of 2012, lauded as “extremely fun and very challenging” and “the best title Rovio released yet”


Received solid reviews overall, with a Metacritic score around 83/100, praised for creativity despite some design criticism for predictability


🔧 Real-World Physics & Educational Value
Analyses published in Wired connected the game’s physics to real-world principles:

Increased mass in a vehicle reduces acceleration in a predictable way.

Friction behaves realistically: wooden wheels have a coefficient ~0.128, metal wheels ~0.096, and mass doesn’t affect friction force, similar to real physics models .
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🐷 Spin-offs & Sequels
Piggy Tales, a claymation-style animated series (later CGI), premiered in April 2014 and spans four seasons through 2018. It focuses on the daily life of the Minion Pigs and related mischievous stories with no dialogue
A sequel, Bad Piggies 2, was soft-launched in 2023 but reportedly struggled due to limited content and design issues; it may have already been discontinued by 2025

✅ Why It Still Matters
The blend of creative construction and trial-and-error gameplay makes it enduringly fun—and instructive.

Its realistic physics model gives it value both as entertainment and an educational tool.

The original version remains available today, despite temporary removal from stores and later attempts at a sequel.

Need tips for level design, achieving 3-stars, or learning deeper about the physics side of Bad Piggies? I’d be happy to dive into that with you!

Bad Piggies is a 2012 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 vehicles 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.[citation needed]

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 listed again worldwide.[citation needed]

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.