Angry Birds (video game) was being played, the staff liked the characters, and the team elected to design a game around them. In early 2009, physics games, such as "Crush the Castle", were popular flash-based web games, so the Rovio team was inspired by these games. During the development of "Angry Birds", the staff realized the birds needed an enemy. At the time, the "swine flu" epidemic was in the news, so the staff made the birds' enemies pigs. Angry Birds was the studio's 52nd produced game and on its initial release, the game did not sell many copies. After Angry Birds was a
Angry Video Game Nerd: The Movie into the film. Though this process was more time consuming than using CGI, Rolfe believed that the use of scale models would help add to the film’s intended B movie feel. The game's review featured in the end credits was later released as a stand-alone episode of "The Angry Video Game Nerd" web series, featuring the game under its proper title rather than the "Eee Tee" spoof used in the film, which was used to avoid legal dispute from copyright holders of the film the video game is based on. The film's score was composed by Bear McCreary, who had