| Bad Piggies | |
|---|---|
 The app icon of Bad Piggies | |
| Developer(s) | Rovio Entertainment |
| Publisher(s) | Rovio Entertainment |
| Producer(s) | Petri Järvilehto, Mikael Hed, Jaakko Haapasalo |
| Designer(s) | Markus Tuppurainen, Peter Urbanics |
| Programmer(s) | Marco Rapino, Miika Virpioja, Mauricio Hollando, Jussi Markkanen |
| Composer(s) | Ilmari Hakkola |
| Series | Angry Birds |
| Engine | Unity[2] |
| Platform(s) | Android, iOS, Windows, Mac OS X, BlackBerry 10, Windows Phone[3] |
| Release | September 27, 2012 - July 2019 (6 years, 9 months, 3 weeks and 5 days) [1] January 20, 2020 (rerelease) |
| Genre(s) | Puzzle |
Bad Piggies is a puzzle video game developed by Rovio Entertainment, and was the company's first spin-off of Angry Birds. The game launched on Android, iOS, Windows, and Mac on September 27, 2012. It was released for BlackBerry 10 in October 2013 and for Windows Phone in April 2014.[4] Unlike the Angry Birds games, the player assists the pigs in building contraptions that travel on land and in air to collect pieces of a map to ultimately capture and take away the Angry Birds' eggs.[5][6] As of October 2012, Bad Piggies was the fastest-selling game on the Apple App Store,[1] and the quickest one to reach the top of the app list in just three hours.[7]
In June 2014, Rovio made Bad Piggies free-to-play, since it previously had a purchase price. Advertisements were also implemented.
Between April 2019 and July 2019, the game was removed from the Google Play Store and App Store respectively. However, in early 2020, the game was added back worldwide.
In May 2023, a sequel titled Bad Piggies 2 was soft launched on iOS and Android devices,[8] but was later discontinued at the end of October that same year.
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- ^ "Bad Piggies Finally Sets Up Home on Windows Phone". Windows Gamers b. 2014-04-14. Archived from the original on 2014-04-16. Retrieved 2014-04-16.
- ^ "After 'Angry Birds' success, Rovio to launch 'Bad Piggies'". The Australian. September 5, 2012. Retrieved 10 September 2012.
- ^ Dredge, Stuart (26 September 2012). "Bad piggies review". TheGuardian.com. Retrieved 2012-09-26.
- ^ Mallory, Jordan. "Bad Piggies is Rovio's quickest selling #1 game, free content update coming soon". Joystiq. Archived from the original on 4 October 2012. Retrieved 3 October 2012.
- ^ "Bad Piggies 2 comes to selected countries in iOS-exclusive soft launch". Pocket Gamer. 9 May 2023. Retrieved 24 February 2024.