Angry Birds Journey



Angry Birds Journey (previously known as Angry Birds Casual) is a slingshot puzzle game developed by Rovio Entertainment. It is the twenty-fourth game in the expanded mainline series, and the eleventh mobile game to use the slingshot gameplay style. Despite this, the game's mechanics base itself on the more recent tile-matching games, such as Angry Birds Match and Angry Birds Dream Blast. The birds act more like moves to the player, with the characters being provided in a random sequence. In addition to pigs, the birds' goal was originally to only free encaged hatchlings, who sometimes have missions tied to them (getting their containers to the bottom of the stage or to the top), but when rebranded to Journey, the main goal changed back to popping Pigs (however some levels still have the goals of freeing hatchlings). Also, the levels are not replayable, thus meaning that the stars are removed.

History
Journey was soft-launched as Angry Birds Casual in the US, Finland, Poland and Sweden on Apple's App Store in March of 2020. It was pulled from the App Store in December of that year, due to the game getting rebranded as Angry Birds Journey, which would release in the same set of regions, along with Denmark and Canada, on January 14th, 2021. The new version of the game was set in a different, more tribal location, featured more pigs in the levels, and introduced the plot of a Minion Pig stealing an ancient egg that Red had found. On December 9th, 2021, it was confirmed on the official Angry Birds Facebook pages that the game would be made available worldwide soon.

Gameplay
The game is a slingshot game, in which the players have to drag the rubber of the slingshot with the bird and aim it at the target, which are Caged Hatchlings. There are various unlockable characters and are again in "cute" style, and they have their original abilities (except for Red). There are sections for each level just like in Angry Birds 2. Each level has quests, like the Match games, such as freeing Hatchlings on jam, popping pigs, etc. The game is based off of a lot of Angry Birds Dream Blast features and graphics. The birds now have abilities that activate on contact with touching blocks these and cannot be activated by tapping. There is also an Anger Meter that fills up by breaking blocks which, once filled, will make the next bird bigger and stronger when the player uses the Anger Meter ability. In each level, there are "Moves," which are flings of the slingshot. Each fling costs one move. Each move gives a random bird, and if you run out of moves, you lose the level. You have to pay 950 coins if you run out of birds. There is the Sun Bar, where you fill it with Sun Tokens to get the Sun chest while your first and second rewards are 40 and 60 coins. The Sun Chest has 140 coins, infinite lives for 30 minutes and a powerup. The Star Chest is unlocked when you get 20 stars to open it. It contains a new profile picture, 420 coins and a new puzzle piece to add to the background.

Checkpoints
Similar to Angry Birds 2, each level is divided into several stages, now called "checkpoints". Each level consists of three to five checkpoints. At each checkpoint the player has to clear all the goals of that checkpoint in order to proceed to the next checkpoint. The player wins the level after clearing all goals of the final checkpoint.

Each checkpoint has one to three types of goals the player must collect. See the section below.

Goals
There are several types of goals to be collected by players during gameplay.

Chapters
There are total of 5 chapters in Angry Birds Journey, each split up into two episodes.
 * 1) Ancient Ruins
 * 2) Crystal Clouds
 * 3) Starry Desert
 * 4) Sleepy Meadows
 * 5) Sacred Springs

After the main chapters, there is a bonus chapter:
 * Gaia’s Challenge

Characters
(In order of appearance in the levels)

Birds

 * Main
 * Chuck
 * Bomb
 * Silver
 * Stella
 * Red
 * Hatchlings


 * Others
 * Unnamed Female Mechanic
 * Judge Peckinpah

Pigs

 * Minion Pigs
 * Helmet Pig

Others

 * Gaia

Gallery
For gallery, see Angry Birds Journey/Gallery.

Trivia
"AK: Do not delete the folder (StreamingAssets) of this file. The folder is required in the Wwise Unity Integration to avoid DirectoryNotFoundException on Unity Editor for Windows when there is no such a folder in the active Unity project."It is noted that there wasn't a folder called "StreamingAssets" anywhere in the same folder as the text file.
 * The "Angry Birds Journey - Stolen Egg" trailer was the Gold Winner for the "Game Advertising & Design – Digital AD (Single)" category at the NYX Game awards in November 2021.
 * In version 2.0 of the APK, in the string path (com.rovio.abcasual\assets) is a text file called "desc.txt", which says the following:


 * If you pre-registered the game before the global launch, you can claim 2 special edition profile photos or Golden Red and Ruby Stella plus 24 hours of infinite lives. However, there was only a 7 day period to collect these items.