Everywhere you look, there’s an Angry Birds game, Angry Birds toys and clothing. It’s a phenomenon that breeds copy cat versions. Not of birds, but other animals, particularly of the barnyard variety.
Bad Piggies vs. Angry Birds
My family and friends don’t consider me a gamer, but I know my way around the various Angry Bird games on my iPhone, so I recognize the value in the saying, ‘imitation is the best form of flattery.’
The makers of Angry Birds have extended the franchise to include Bad Piggies, a great yet oddly familiar app for the Mac.
These are not the little piggies stuck on the end of your foot. Bad Piggies are after eggs.
You help by flying, crawling, rolling, spinning, crashing and doing everything you can to get the Piggies to the eggs.
Your task is to help create a flying machine for the Piggies and help guide them on their journey to the destination.
Navigating and playing are simple enough to get started, but the dozens of levels increase the challenge.
You might think that Bad Piggies is child’s play. Well, it is, but adults will find it more challenging than expected.
That’s the Angry Birds way, I guess.
Bad Piggies has 84 different levels, so it’s not a game you’re likely to master in minutes.
Unless you’re 10.
As you play Bad Piggies you can collect stars for better performance and three stars unlocks 21 additional levels.
Your creativity to create flying machines starts in the sandbox, but Bad Piggies has five levels there.
Then, there’s a special, very secret, and crazy difficult sandbox level which you can get to but only after collecting all the skulls.
Each flying machine can be built with nearly three dozen objects; motors, wings, bottle rockets, umbrellas, and so on. Bad Piggies is fun and carries on the Angry Birds tradition to barnyard animals. It’s also far less expensive than typical Mac games, so it makes a great gift.