We’ve been hearing about how Angry Birds was coming to Android, and how it was delayed.

I don’t know if they are trying to make up for it, but Rovio is offering Angry Birds to Android, for free. There is a catch, as it is ad-supported.

So, what is next, Angry Birds for WP7 for free?

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If you’ve yet to play Angry Birds, I’m willing to bet you’ve at least glimpsed its icon floating on the App Store’s charts. For good reason, too; it’s an addictive game. The basic formula is a bunch of angry birds, a slingshot, and the egg-stealing pigs and their castles. The goal of this little physics game is to demolish each and every one of the aforementioned castles—but does Angry Birds actually follow the rules of physics?

Apparently one of Wired’s writers, Rhet Allain, just couldn’t stop thinking about the posibilities:

But what about the physics? Do the birds have a constant vertical acceleration? Do they have constant horizontal velocity? Let’s find out, shall we? Oh, why would I do this? Why can’t I just play the dumb game and move on. That is not how I roll. I will analyze this, and you can’t stop me.

Long story short: he took one of the developer’s walkthrough videos and decided to analyze it using a program called Tracker Video Analysis. He used the program to determine path of the bird’s flight, and then used that data to graph the bird’s horizontal and vertical movement separately. (In projectile motion, you typically separate horizontal and vertical components.)

His discovery? Angry Birds considers only the force of gravity on the bird—once you fire the bird from the slingshot; the app doesn’t calculate air resistance or anything like that. And assuming that gravity in Angry Birds is equal to Earth’s gravity, the slingshot is five feet tall and the red bird is a little over two feet. Jeez…talk about a large bird!

The physics that Mr. Allain used actually felt quite familiar—since I essentially had to do the same thing in a physics lab last week. Bounce a golf ball, take a video, then measure its path with a computer and use projectile motion equations — he only difference was that we were trying to determine gravity, whereas he assumed gravity was -9.8 meters per second and instead tried to determine the size of different Angry Birds elements. Of course, the other difference between Angry Birds and my physics lab was that, you know, Angry Birds is artificial, and thus the equations that Wired derived worked a lot better than our sad attempts.

So, if you were desperately wondering—the Angry Birds slingshot is more than twice your height and the birds themselves are giant and vicious. Now I’d like to see him calculate the height of those pig castles.

[Via Wired]

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Angry Birds

iPhone App – Designed for the iPhone, compatible with the iPad

Our Rating: :: GREAT
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Released: 2009-12-11 :: Category: Games / Action

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Angry Birds is currently one of the most popular iPhone games and now it has made its way to Android. Angry Birds has hit 1 million downloads on Android. Currently it hits over 100,000 downloads per day on the Android operating system. Rovio, the company behind Angry Birds, hopes to hit 100 million downloads across multiple platforms including the iPad, Android, webOS, PC, Mac, Nintendo DS, the Wii, the PlayStation, Xbox, and the PSP. [UberGizmo]

Last month we reported that Angry Birds creators wanted to push their success a bit further by turning the famous birds into a movie and toys. While the movie still seems like a stretch to me, I never doubted we’d see some Angry Birds toys hit the shelves. It seems it’s now just a matter of time.

Some guy was walking the streets of NY when he saw a woman carrying a box of Angry Birds plush toys. He snapped a picture and asked her more about the toys. Apparently they will be in stores early 2011… Read More

Thanks to the addition of mobile application stores like Apple’s App Store and Google’s Android Marketplace, consumers have access to a whole slew of innovative games for the respective platforms. In fact, it’s these app stores that give Android and iOS the fuel they need to succeed in the mobile gaming industry.

One of the more popular games featured on the App Store for the iPad, iPod touch and iPhone is Angry Birds. To date, over 6.5 million copies of the game have been sold which is quite a chunk of change in the pockets of Rovio, the game’s developer.

However, while Angry Birds has been available on iOS for quite some time, Rovio has brought it to both the Nokia N900 and Google’s Android with the latter version currently in beta. Luckily, Android users won’t have to wait too much longer for the final release of Angry Birds as it was announced today that said release will be out in a few weeks.

via phandroid

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