Agri Birds



Agri Birds was a canceled farming simulator and visual novel game. The trailer was uploaded on Angry Birds' YouTube channel for 2015's April Fools Day.The game was first thought to be an April Fool's joke due to the date and nature until a former Rovio employee confirmed that Agri Birds was indeed in development but dropped despite having a lot of concept art drawn for it. They left over the storyboard for the Agri Birds second trailer that was planned to launch it as an actual game, but it got cancelled.

The game ended up being an early concept for the designs in Angry Birds Evolution with the concept of evolving and caricature of birds, preferring to create new birds instead of using the core flock, that was later added. That was being developed since the release of the trailer or before.

Characters

 * Red: A grumpy dwarf bird that lives on his farm, who has some anger issues.
 * Chuck: An old and cheerful fisher bird that lives on the farm. He is good with emotional support.
 * Bomb: A fat bird that wants to get fit, but also eats ice cream since it's his favorite.
 * Matilda: A muscular farmer who protects her vegetable garden from moles by shooting with her shotgun.
 * Sasha Lynx: A feminine version of Hal that seems to be pretty fashionable. Their gender is quite ambiguous as they have a masculine voice in the trailer.
 * Stella: A strong athlete with quite skinny legs. She has a crush on Gale.
 * Gale: Mighty Bagel's daughter that doesn't seems to care about her father's plans. She has a crush on Stella.
 * Mighty Bagel: A pun on Mighty Eagle and villainous version of him that he wants to take over the land of the birds' farm.
 * The Blues - They are crazy birds that invade the farm and fool around. The other birds are fine with their presence. Only one of them has legs.
 * The Pigs: They appeared for a while in the farm gameplay as actual pigs. However, some concept art shows that they might have been related with Mighty Bagel.

Trivia

 * This game was an early parody of The Angry Birds Movie and used the new Angry Birds font for the second time. This game served as an inspiration for the Angry Birds Classic episode, Piggy Farm.
 * The game's UI and sound effects are reused from Angry Birds Stella.
 * The game had Stella and Gale in a romantic relationship, being the first time the franchise has shown a relationship between characters of the same gender.
 * There exists promotional art for Angry Birds Seasons: Hogs and Kisses where Matilda, with her old design, is standing alongside another Matilda but with a pink bow and cheekmarks to look more feminine. However, the developers claimed it to be an oversight.
 * The concept art depicts Sasha Lynx wearing a loose top and hot pants. This might be because of their design in the trailer being too suggestive.
 * This was the first and only time Mighty Eagle was portrayed as a villain.
 * This game, Bad Piggies, Cryptobirdies, and Flip the Bird are the only games in the Angry Birds series without the words Angry Birds in its title.
 * The title is a mix of "Agriculture" and Angry Birds.
 * Agri Birds is a pun on Angry Birds.
 * The ending part of the first trailer uses as part of the soundtrack from the Angry Birds Toons episode Fired Up,, more specifically the part where Chuck stops the Light Beam from a magnifying glass with a blanket.
 * One of the game's elements involves being surviving in an old farmhouse at night with The Blues attacking is reference to the horror game series, Five Nights at Freddy's.