Sunday, April 3, 2011
Angry Birds: Why are they so angry?
Angry Birds is a new app for the iphone as well as the android. People have become obsessed with this game. Anyone who owns a smart phone will have this game. WARNING this game is addicting.
Angry Birds is a puzzle based game. You take control over a flock of birds that are trying to take back eggs that have been stolen from them by a gang of evil green pigs. Each level has a wooden/ice/stone structure that is protecting the pigs. The object is to destroy the pigs. You are given a slingshot and you have to launch the birds one by one from the slingshot to either hit the pigs or do enough damage to the structure that would make it collapse and kill the pigs.
Different levels have different birds that do different things.
Before I got an android phone I didn’t really know what the big deal was about Angry Birds. I always heard people talking about it and wondering what it was. Then i decided to download the app to see what all the fuss was about. Once I started playing I couldn’t stop. Theres something about slingshotting birds to kill pigs thats addicting. I haven’t made it that far through the levels though. And I do admit that for one level I may have had to watch a “how to beat this level” youtube video. I have probably spent at least a half hour trying to beat one level. Many people probably would have given up at that point but not me.
The game Angry Birds have appeared on many different shows and talk shows. Almost all television spots are about how the game is addicting. So people have access to this super addicting game everywhere they go. They can play it in school at work or even in the waiting room at a doctors office. With smart phones and apps becoming ever more popular will the education system have to change to make sure that kids aren’t using apps like Angry Birds instead of paying attention in class.
Do smart phones reduce human interaction? Think of the people you could meet while waiting if you weren’t on your smart phone.
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Katrina's mom just heard about Angry Birds at a leadership meeting at work, & wrote a very nice note responding to your posting. However, her inept friend lost the post while trying to post it.
ReplyDeletePart of what she said was the warning she & her fellow workers were given that anything they write on media, whether e-mails or Facebook, could rise up to bite them (although they didn't use those words, you know).
Another part of what she wrote (& I lost) is how fast media change, how your generation knows so much more than hers (& forget mine!) about using media & electronics.
Katrina!
ReplyDeleteGotta love ANGRY BIRDS. So much time has been wasted in the playing, eh?
And this is a good (minus) blog effort for this semester. Clearly, you know how to use our Web 2.0 tools - I would encourage you to apply a more rigorous analysis of the same, using our "power tools" as a guide.
Keep meditating on your media, and enjoy your summer.
Get pumped for China Mojo!
Dr. W