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 Birds Blast Island Angry Birds Blast Island Angry Birds Blast Island is a free-to-play tile-matching puzzle video game that was soft-launched in select countries and regions on February 1, 2018 and is slated for wide release later this year. The game is a direct sequel to the original "Angry Birds Blast!" released in December 2016. The game is being developed by MYBO Games and is being published by Rovio Entertainment. The game has since been in soft launch in select regions and territories such as Asia since early February 2018. The release date and whether or not the amount of territory the soft