Angry Birds Developers Create New Gaming App 'Best Fiends'
Former "Angry Birds" game makers have joined a startup to create a new game involving an adventure of slugs and bugs.
The game, called "Best Fiends," is due in October and will be free on mobile devices, according to USA Today.
Former Rovio executives Andrew Stalbow and Petri Järvilehto, under the new startup Seriously, created the game, which involves fending off insects and bugs released by the Slugs of Doom.
"This is a story that I have wanted to tell for a long time," Järvilehto said in an email interview with USA Today. "For a few years, our neighborhood in Finland has been under an infestation of 'Spanish slugs.' So the conflict of small critters defending and fighting against invading slugs was something that was literally close to home."
The game will also feel a little like J.R.R. Tolkein's "Lord of the Rings" because there is a "Mount Boom" where secrets await, Järvilehto said.
The startup intends on gaining the attention of players who made Angry Birds so popular.They even launched a website Tuesday which provides a first look into the world of Minutia, according to PC Magazine.
"With content consumption on smartphones and tablets exploding, we believe the next generation of entertainment brands will be built first on mobile, and we want to be at the forefront of that shift," Seriously CEO Stalbow said in a statement.
Seriously has future plans to head to Hollywood too, with animated shorts, original music, limited-edition artwork, a brand book, and stickers for messenger apps all in the works.
This is all possible with their collective expertise, which includes members of Disney, Remedy and Fox, as well as the composer of Despicable Me, Hector Pereira, according to USA Today.
"We've been working hard to attract the world's best talent to work with us," Stalbow said. "We want to differentiate ourselves by building something that feels Hollywood-level creative and original. Collectively, we have been influenced by a number of properties that we've all worked on such as The Simpsons, Max Payne and, of course, Angry Birds. We've taken everything we've learned along the way and are trying to crystallize it."
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