Angry Birds Stella



Angry Birds Stella was a puzzle video game and the second spin-off from the Angry Birds series, developed by Rovio Entertainment.

This game is based on an Angry Birds character named Stella, who was first introduced in the Angry Birds Seasons level set "Back to School", which was released in August of 2012.

It begins with Stella leaving the rest of the Angry Birds flock and setting off to Golden Island to visit four other friends (Poppy, Luca, Willow, and Dahlia) for vacation. However, Gale and an army of pigs steal Stella's photo album, which leads Stella and her friends to embark on a journey to retrieve it.

History
On December 30, 2013, the first teaser image was shown in Rovio's "New Tricks" video.

Angry Birds Stella was announced on February 12, 2014. Rovio posted a picture with silhouettes of some new characters. The next day, it was published new pictures, and announcements, which is became clear that this will be a new game with new characters.

On February 14, 2014, the developers announced the Telepods for Angry Birds Stella.

Developers released concepts of the new birds and their homes. The cinematic trailer was released on July 24, 2014. Also, the demo version of the game was presented at the international festival of San Diego Comic-Con International. They released videos with meet the characters on August 2014 and the gameplay teaser was released on August 28, 2014.

Angry Birds Stella Toons was released on October 25, 2014 for exclusive premiere and premiered on November 4, 2014 with the episode A Fork in the Friendship.

The v1.1.1 update called New Pigs on the Block added the storyline that features Stella and her friends in their treehouse looking for their house' s missing items that were stolen by the pigs along with the golden queen Gale and must complete levels to retrieve the items.

Rovio has partnered with Worldreader and Room to Read, two literacy charities, to produce a series of books featuring its Angry Birds Stella characters.

In 2015, they released a comic book series based off the game. It was published by Le Lombard. The first volume was released in France on May 2015, the comic was also released in Czech, Dutch, Spanish, and German. The second volume was released on April 2017 in France.

For unknown reason, the comic series was never release in English version.

Discontinuation
On July 13, 2015, it was announced that the game would be officially discontinued to continue with Angry Birds Stella POP! and the second and final season of the animated series.

On October 18, 2016, the game was closed and removed from the app store. If you try to download the app by jailbreaking on iOS, installing it by the APK file on Android or you still have it on your device, you will get a notice and will redirect you to either Angry Birds 2 and Angry Birds POP!. However the game still continues to function normally. You will unable to sync from Facebook if you have reinstalled the app by this means, making it impossible to retrieve the save game data because Rovio account is not available and you will lose your progress when the app is uninstalled.

As the game was discontinued, there are some sprites in the game files are never made into the game and left them behind.

Gameplay
Just like the original game of the series, players use a slingshot to shoot an assortment of birds to nearby structures, with an intent to kill all the green pigs that can be either near, in, or on the structures. Bird's abilities allows you to tap and hold for a certain amount of time. You can bounce off large drums and still use the birds' ability afterwards.

The total number of stars you have collected in the game is shown in the top right corner. Earning stars is important as the extra birds in your line-up are unlocked when you achieve a certain number. Without these extra birds you do not get 10,000 point bonuses.

The game features coins that main purpose is to buy their accumulation characters. Also, the bird in the slingshot can be replaced using Telepods.

The Hammer is the only power-up. It is unlocked on Level 13. Press it at anything or any enemy to destroy the item/enemy. After using it it takes a certain amount of pigs for it to recharge or you can spend coins and use it immediately.

There is a mini-game in the credits menu where you keep the pigs up in the air. A video is shown below.

On the Mighty Eagle's eye icon, you need to scan a code from the Angry Birds Stella magazine that’s only available in the UK. You’ll unlock a game of Hide-and-Seek (on page 2), you must find Stella's friends by scanning different flowers on each pages.

Bonus Levels
The bonus levels were added in v1.1.1 update.The main feature is the possibility of the player to choose a bird of the three prepositions. Like the Angry Birds Epic after passing a level necessary to turn the roulette wheel, where you can win coins and Lost & Found items. The number of prizes is equal to the number of stars earned in a level. Also for getting stars on the bonus levels and items can earn experience points (XP). To achieve a certain level of experience opens up new Lost & Found items, pigs and boxes. You must unlock after you complete Level 18 of Branch Out, complete the tutorial levels of Luca, Willow, and Dahlia to play areas on the map.

Lost and Found
The inventory consists of a large number of Lost & Found items belonging to Stella, Poppy, Luca, Dahlia, and Willow. The inventory has become available in the game not once, but only after one of the updates. According to the cutscenes, the pigs entered the treehouse and stole all of their belongings. To get them, you need to pass one of the bonus levels. Once you beat the level, the player will be offered to scroll the wheel with prizes, which are often exposed to the inventory items.

If a player is lucky and got the item from your inventory, the game automatically runs a small scene. You can see how many items you found. Then can happen two options will be offered to the player to find the same thing, but a newer and quality (can be repeated up to five times), or as the player gets a bonus. Each found items significantly add points to the player's level of experience. More points can be obtained by finding the number of similar items and improving the existing maximum. Lost & Found items can be viewed by clicking on the button with the image of Luca's Toy Robot in the lower right corner.

Album
Main Article: Album The scrapbook/scrapbook allows you to access the characters, costumes, and boxes you have unlocked. At the very beginning of the game, it shows that the scrapbook with photos are stolen by Gale together with the pigs from Stella's treehouse, and then it was dropped from the airship on one of the flowers. You must get the scrapbook at Level 5.

Episodes / Chapters
There are only two episodes in the game.

Achievements
Main Article: Angry Birds Stella/Achievements

Gallery
Main Article: Angry Birds Stella/Gallery

Soundtrack
See Angry Birds Stella/Soundtrack.

Reception
The game has received generally mixed reviews with a Metacritic score of 67/100 based on 8 reviews. Pocket Gamer UK said, "It's Angry Birds. If you care about that any more then you'll probably find something to enjoy. Just watch out for the timers." Some reviewers have praised the game for its introduction of new characters and return to the original style of gameplay.

Angry Birds Stella POP!
Main Article: Angry Birds POP! A game from Stella series was originally called Angry Birds Stella POP!, which is a bubble shooter game, was soft launched for iOS in Canada on December 22, 2014 and released worldwide for iOS and Android on March 12, 2015.

On July 6, 2015 (v1.8.0 update), the game changed its name from Angry Birds Stella POP! to Angry Birds POP!.

Trivia

 * Angry Birds Stella is the first main game in the series as a whole where the playable Birds are not given alternative names named after their color or an attribute to the character.
 * The following reasons of why Angry Birds Stella is a unique game.
 * There is only one returning playable Bird.
 * It is the only Angry Birds Game or Spinoff where Red does not appear directly.
 * It is the only game where the villain is female.
 * It is the only game where the flock has only 1 male member.
 * It is the only game where the main character is female.
 * It is one of the only games to have its own Comic-Con Panel.
 * It is the only game where the main villain does not appear in the final level.
 * This is the first game where the main villain is a bird, as well as the first depiction of infighting amongst the birds.
 * This is the only game where all of the birds sport unique eye colors, with none of them ever having black eyes (light blue, dark blue, green, brown, orange, and yellow). In fact, the only characters with black eyes are the pigs.
 * In the in-game files, the game is referred to as "Purple" and "PURPLE_BIRD" on multiple occasions, possibly referring to Gale.
 * Each of the birds abilities are similar to those from previous games.
 * Stella's ability is similar to Red's ability from Red's Mighty Feathers.
 * Poppy's is similar to Matilda.
 * Luca's is similar to the Blues.
 * Willow's is similar to Hal.
 * Dahlia's is similar to Bomb.
 * Gale's is similar to Mighty Eagle.
 * This game used to have a Facebook glitch. You didn't have to connect Facebook to play the game or you couldn't play the game anymore. You had to uninstall the game and reinstall it. Makes you lose all progress because Rovio Account is not available in this game.
 * Some of Lost & Found items has references:
 * You can see Red and King Pig as Luca's toys, inside a car, referencing to Angry Birds Go!.
 * The old loading screen of Angry Birds can be seen as a logo on the Game Console, near the television.
 * The unused posters are referencing to:
 * Red's poster - Michael Jackson's Thriller
 * The Blues' poster - One Direction
 * Chuck's poster - ???
 * Matilda's poster - Daft Punk
 * Bomb's poster - The Notorious Big