Angryverse/Bad Piggies (Game)

Bad Piggies is an Angry Birds spinoff game from Rovio that was released on September 27th, 2012. The game's premise is that the player is on the pigs' side instead of the birds, and would have to build vehicles to get to the eggs. The game's style is similar to Amazing Alex, Rovio's previous game, maneuvering around courses. It is currently available for iOS, Nook, Android, Kindle Fire, Mac, and PC, with Windows 8 and Windows Phone to follow in the future. The game is free on Google Play, is $2.99 for iPad (HD) and $0.99 for iPhone.

The game has been stated to follow the imagination of a single Pig with freckles, under the name Ross, whose hobbies are constructing both land and air-based vehicles, transporting him, an egg, and the king. Toons.TV has been added to the game during the Halloween update. Features in the game include Hidden Loot Crates, Custom Parts to customize vehicles, Skulls that you can find throughout the game, and most recently, the Cake Race, where you could race with other players in real time.

Promotion
On August 27, 2012, the Bad Piggies made their own Facebook and Twitter accounts and started teasing the readers that they have plans to soon reveal something. On August 30, Rovio posted a video on their YouTube featuring Red on a featureless white background, with pigs falling on top of him and the supertitle "Something PIG is coming" appearing on the screen. After eight days of secrecy, on September 4, Rovio unveiled it: a new game in which the pigs are the stars. On September 17, Yahoo! Games has revealed the gameplay for the game.

The main point is that the player builds vehicles (cars, planes, etc.) out of various materials (wood, metal, etc.) and puts Ross to ride them and tries to collect things such as stars. The following day, the TV show X-Play made a preview of the game showing more of the game. On September 27, the game was released on iOS, Android, and Macintosh, with PC releasing later the same day.

Plot
Ross, the Mechanic Pig and King Pig find a construction set along with a telescope. After finding out about the eggs' location with the telescope, King Pig tasks the Mechanic Pig with drawing a map with a paper to reach them. When he finishes doing do however, Ross turns on a fan, which rips the map off and sends its pieces flying away. King Pig then orders the two pigs to get the missing parts of the map.

Eventually, the three pigs manage to complete the map and go to the eggs' location. For King Pig's frustration however, they do not find any eggs there. They soon use the telescope again and find the eggs far away. The Mechanic Pig tries to draw another map with another paper to reach the eggs, though King Pig thinks that using a part of a box to draw the map would be better instead. When Ross is done with drawing the map on a box as King Pig advised however, it turns out that he used a TNT box for the job. The TNT box blows up and sends the pieces of the map flying away. With an infuriated King Pig, Ross and the Mechanic Pig set out to find the pieces. After doing so, they go to the eggs' suppose location, only to find that they are not there either. Ross soon after discovers that the telescope had the eggs painted on it by the Blues. An infuriated King Pig soon starts to chase after the pigs as the Blues laugh at them.

Sometime after, Ross and the Mechanic Pig were on a beach on Piggy Island, hungry because they did not have anything to eat. However, they soon find Chef Pig carrying a giant cake for King Pig, and crash onto it, sending its slices flying away. Furious over the pigs' act, Chef Pig orders the pigs to gather the slices of the cake, as otherwise King Pig will be very angry with him. After doing so, the pigs give King Pig the now complete cake, which pleasures him.

Some time later, at nighttime, King Pig, Ross and the Mechanic Pig find the birds sleeping with the eggs. Very quietly, Ross steals one of the eggs and gives it to the other two pigs. King Pig says that it would be better and faster if they carried the egg with a vehicle. After getting far enough away from the birds, King Pig tries to break the egg with a hammer, only for the latter to be broken instead. Furious because he had been fooled again, King Pig curses and chases after the two other pigs as the Blues, who were behind the prank all this time, laugh from behind.

During Halloween, Ross goes to eat some candy, though he ends up eating so much that he falls asleep. He has a dream where he builds many vehicles to carry some candy. He soon after wakes up, only for him to find some zombies and a mysterious pig in front of him, the latter of whom leave him unconscious. However, he later wakes up in his home, revealing that everything was actually a dream.

Some time later, King Pig finds that he is missing one statue in his palace, so Ross heads to El Porkado to find a golden statue for him. He succeeds, finding a giant golden pig statue which he takes back to the palace. This leaves King Pig dumbfounded while Ross is satisfied about the work.

Gameplay
Bad Piggies is a puzzle game, where the player needs to build a vehicle with a limited set of parts they are granted. The player has a "board" where they will be able to assemble the parts.

The main objective of Bad Piggies is to build a vehicle to take Ross to the goal of the level. If the player fails to get to the goal, they can always restart to return to the starting point of the level, where they will be able to test the vehicle again or create a new one. Finishing the level will grant the player a certain amount of stars, which will depend on their process and vehicle. To get stars, the player may have to do some tasks such as getting star boxes, not using a specific parts, etc.

Physics apply to the vehicle (weight, force, and aerodynamics) which the player may compensate or use to benefit the chances of getting to the goal, whilst operating the various parts to get to it. For example, lighter parts like wood will be light in weight, though the material itself will be very vulnerable to crashes. Likewise, heavier parts will be heavier in weight, though they will also be less prone to damage.

Episodes

 * 1) Ground Hog Day - 45 levels
 * 2) Rise and Swine - 45 levels
 * 3) When Pigs Fly - 45 levels
 * 4) Flight in the Night - 45 levels
 * 5) Tusk 'til Dawn - 30 levels
 * 6) The Road to El Porkado - 45 levels
 * 7) Road Hogs - 8 levels


 * Specials
 * Sandbox - Split into 10 parts
 * Field of Dreams - Building level (40 Stars)
 * Little Pig Adventures - Building level (40 Stars)
 * Cake Race - Race against clock and opponent to get to the cake.

Resources
There are the resources in Bad Piggies:

Snout Coins
Main article: Coins

Snout Coins are the resources to buy in-game stuffs like:


 * Unlocking Sandboxes, especially the Little Pig Adventure sandbox.
 * Power-ups (Super Glue, Magnet, etc.)
 * Wooden Loot Crates
 * Rush the time to open a crate (Cake Race)
 * Buying the remaining nuts

They can be earned by doing these:


 * Playing levels and earning stars (1 coin each star).
 * Watching a video (give 50 coins and double the player's coin rewards throughout the game for 30 minutes)
 * by feeding King Pig in Dessert Mode
 * In-game purchases

XP
XP (Experience Points) is a feature in Bad Piggies that can be used to earn rewards (Wheel of Fortune) when the player level up. They can be earned by Playing levels and earning stars (20 XP each star), Winning Cake Race mode (100 XP), in Dessert Mode (2 XP each King Pig burps for coins, nuts, or power-ups), using new custom parts (depending on type of common (1-star), rare (2-star), or epic (3-star) parts), craft new custom parts, and getting hidden loot crates (the rarer the crates, the bigger XP earned.)

Nuts
Nuts are the in-game resources that can be used to craft new custom parts.

They can be earned by King Pig in Dessert Mode or in the Hidden Loot Crates.

Secret items / Secret Custom Parts
Secret items, or secret Custom Parts, can be found throughout the game. There are 3 known secret items.

There probably might be a hidden 2-star item but none have been seen yet.


 * 1) A 3-star Pineapple. This is quite hard to get and is located in The Road to El Porkado 6-12. Tap it 3 times. It replaces an Egg.
 * 2) A 1-star Blobfish. It's in the main menu. Tap it once. It replaces a Pumpkin.
 * 3) A 3 star outfit for Ross. It is in the Find the Statues sandbox. In it Ross wears a white top hat and golden glasses. It is west of the starting area - tap a diver's helmet at a pile of gold.

Platforms
Bad Piggies is available on multiple platforms, including:


 * iOS (4.3 or later)
 * Android (2.3 and up)
 * PC
 * Mac
 * Windows 8
 * Windows Phone
 * Kindle Fire
 * Blackberry
 * OS X (10.6.6)