Angry Birds Seasons

*"It's pig popping season"*
— Tagline
***Angry Birds Seasons*** (formerly also known as ***Angry Birds Halloween*** before the Season's Greedings update), is the second game in the *Angry Birds* series. It was developed and published by Rovio Entertainment.

## History

*Angry Birds Seasons* was released as a paid app exclusively for iOS in October 2010 as ***Angry Birds Halloween***. In December 2010, the game would be updated as *Angry Birds Seasons* due to the adding of another episode, Season's Greedings, though the Halloween levels were kept in an episode called Trick or Treat. *Angry Birds Seasons* would also receive a free release on Android and Symbian devices, though with ads included in it. The game would continue receiving updates with new episodes that celebrated the seasons and festivities of the years, until 2016 with the addition of Ragnahog, an episode made to celebrate Christmas, set in a Nordic theme.

On August 23, 2011, The Mighty Eagle was released for the game on iOS devices.

*Seasons* was formerly updated on a semi-monthly basis, each update adding a themed episode stylized by an upcoming holiday and usually two Golden Eggs. (The exceptions: Easter Eggs has 11 Golden Eggs (10 in PC and Mac), Summer Pignic has 3, Wreck the Halls has 3, Winter Wonderham has 3 (7 in the Intel Golden Egg on android devices, that got removed on December 1, 2016), Arctic Eggspedition has 4, South Hamerica has 3, Ham Dunk has 3, Tropigal Paradise also has 3 and Pig Days doesn't have any) *Angry Birds Seasons* is split into seven Seasons: 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, and 2016.

Since version 3.2.0, power-ups were added in gameplay.

In April 2019, the game was unlisted in the app stores but came back and received a new update. Afterwards, it was then unlisted again in July 2019. Rovio Entertainment Corporation stated that they had removed the games for testing purposes, but never explained what the test was. Later, the statement was changed to say that the game was removed because Rovio did not want to keep updating the game, now it is only available to download in Zimbabwe.

In June 2021, it was announced by Rovio on Twitter that efforts were going to be made to bring some of the original Angry Birds games back to online stores sometime in the future, including Seasons.

## Plot

During Halloween 2010, the Angry Birds are distracted by a pig covered in a sheet to look like a ghost. The birds scream and the pigs take off with the eggs. They retrieve their eggs several more times and later come across Bubbles, the Orange Bird who helps them from Halloween 2011 and on from there. After retrieving their eggs several more times, they meet Stella, the Pink Bird who helps them during the Back to School season in 2012 and on retrieving their eggs several more times till Christmas 2016.

## Gameplay

*Angry Birds Seasons* is a puzzle video game with similar gameplay to that from previous *Angry Birds* games. In the game, the player takes control of a limited group of birds, who can be launched anywhere by the use of a slingshot. All levels have a series of pigs the player must pop by the use of their characters. These pigs normally appear sheltered inside of structures made of wood, glass, and/or stone, in addition of some additional objects, such as TNT. If the player fails to pop all the pigs in the levels, they will get a Level Failed screen, encouraging them to try again. If they manage to do so however, they will win and pass to the next level. Upon completing each level, the player will receive one, two, or three stars depending on the score received.

As with other *Angry Birds* games, *Angry Birds Seasons* is composed on several episodes; in this game, episodes are based on different holidays celebrated throughout the world. The Android version also has a "Continue Playing!" option in the main menu which takes the player to the last level they played. Most episodes have exclusive features used to celebrate the holidays they are based off; for example, Go Green, Get Lucky makes use of cauldrons filled with money, while Halloween-themed episodes often have jack-o-lanterns. Nevertheless, some episodes may have elements that were taken from past episodes, such as Ski or Squeal and Ragnahog making use of Tony, a character that first appeared in On Finn Ice.

Like other *Angry Birds* games, *Angry Birds Seasons* makes use of powerups, which are optional booster items the player can use to get a temporal advantage to beat the level with more ease. These powerups are limited and cannot be used if the player runs out of them; to compensate this, *Angry Birds Seasons* also makes use of Bird Coins, the game's currency, which allow the player to buy more powerups and unlock extra episodes. While Bird Coins can be obtained by collecting stars or by watching ads, the player is also encouraged to use real money to buy more Bird Coins with real money to use in gameplay.

### Objects

#### Items

* Bird Coins
* Bird Hats ***(only appearance)***
* Easter Egg ***(only appearance)***
* Eggs
* Gold Egg
* Koi Fish ***(only appearance)***
* Powerups
	+ Allaka-BAM ***(only appearance)***
	+ Homing Bird ***(only appearance)***
	+ Power Potion
	+ Shockwave
	+ Sling Scope
	+ Telebird ***(only appearance)***
* Sardine
* Slingshot

### Gimmicks and obstacles

* Balloon
* Billy
* Cloud ***(first appearance)***
* Cookie ***(only appearance)***
* Easter egg
* Ghost Brick ***(first appearance)***
* Gift ***(first appearance)***
* Gold ***(first appearance)***
* Greek pillar
* Glass
* Lava
* Metal
* Pumpkin
* Sand
* Snow ***(first appearance)***
* Stone
* TNT
* Treasure chest
* Water ***(first appearance)***
* Wood

## Characters

### Playable characters

* Angry Birds
	+ Bomb
		- Shockwave (Powerbird)
	+ Bubbles ***(first appearance)***
	+ Chuck
	+ Hal
	+ The Blues
		- Jake
		- Jay
		- Jim
	+ Matilda
	+ Red
		- Homing Bird (powerup) ***(only appearance)***
		- Telebird (Powerbird) ***(only appearance)***
	+ Stella ***(first appearance)***
	+ Terence
		- Wingman
* Playable Pig
* Tony ***(only appearance)***

### Non-playable characters

* Mighty Basketball ***(only appearance)***
* Mighty Dragon ***(only appearance)***
* Mighty Eagle
* Postman Pig ***(first appearance)***
* Prince Porky ***(cameo appearance)***
* Ruby ***(only appearance)***
* Female White Bird ***(only appearance)***

### Enemies

* Chef Pig
* Corporal Pig
* El Porkador
* Foreman Pig
* King Pig
* Mechanic Pig
* Minion Pigs
* Scarecrow Pig ***(first appearance)***

## Episodes

### Season 2010

* Trick or Treat
* Season's Greedings

### Season 2011

* Hogs and Kisses
* Go Green, Get Lucky
* Easter Eggs
* Summer Pignic
* Moon Festival
* Ham'o'ween
* Wreck the Halls

### Season 2012

* Year of the Dragon
* Cherry Blossom
* Piglantis
* Back to School
* Haunted Hogs
* Winter Wonderham

### Season 2013

* Abra-Ca-Bacon
* Arctic Eggspedition

### Season 2014

* South Hamerica
* Ham Dunk
* On Finn Ice

### Season 2015

* Ham Dunk: All-Star
* Tropigal Paradise
* Ham Dunk: The Finals
* Invasion of the Egg Snatchers
* Ski or Squeal

### Season 2016

* Fairy Hogmother
* Marie Hamtoinette
* Summer Camp
* Piggywood Studios
* Hammier Things
* Ragnahog

### Other

* Pig Days
* Power-Up Test Site
* The Pig Challenge

## Other modes

### Shop

The **Shop** allows the player to buy powerups and Powerbirds with the use of Bird Coins to use in gameplay. It is divided on four categories.

The products that appear in the Shop are as follows:

### Hats

**Hats** allows the player to give their birds Bird Hats to use in the levels. These do not affect gameplay however.

### Quests

**Quests** gives the player certain tasks to get rewards. Its modes are the follows:

#### Quests

**Quests** tasks the player with finding certain objects in the levels. They can watch an ad to be taken to that level to find the object, or dismiss the task and get another one after thirty minutes. Once they find the object, they will have to wait fifteen hours (or pay with Bird Coins) to get another quest where they will have to find another object. When the player finds three objects, they will unlock a Bird Hat.

#### Challenges

**Challenges** gives the player tasks that can only be completed by playing The Pig Challenge. Once a challenge is completed, the player will get eggs wearing crows.

#### Episodes

**Episodes** is similar to Challenges, except that the tasks are completed by playing main levels.

#### Progress

In **Progress**, the player can claim rewards by collecting eggs in Challenges and Episodes. The rewards are the following:

## Music

*Main article: Angry Birds Seasons (Original Game Soundtrack)*
In 2018, all music tracks from *Angry Birds Seasons* would be released in the form of ***Angry Birds Seasons (Original Game Soundtrack)***.

*Angry Birds Seasons* is the first *Angry Birds* game to have songs in its soundtrack. There are a total of four songs released for the game: "Peace Song 2011", "Peace Song 2012: Fly Me Home Tonight", "Peace Song 2013: Ode to Snow", and "Peace Song 2014: Santamental Me".

## Reception

Both *Angry Birds Seasons* and *Angry Birds Halloween* received generally positive reviews both by critics and fan alike. In Metacritic, it holds a user score of 6.9 for the iOS version based on twenty-two ratings; a 4.3 score for the *HD* version of the game released on the same platform based on nineteen ratings; and a score of 7.8 based on twenty-two ratings for the PC version.

Reviewing the *Halloween* version of the game, one reviewer at *Slide to Play* said that the game was hard, and that they "wondered why the game was not an in-app purchase for the original game". When the game was updated to *Angry Birds Seasons* in December, he said that he liked the idea of the Season's Greetings levels being like an advent calendar, with one level being added per day. He concluded saying that the game was a "Must Have" and that people who liked the original *Angry Birds* will be "pleased with *Angry Birds Seasons*". Similarly, Chris Buffa from *Modojo* rated the game 5/5 and wrote that "*Angry Birds Seasons* is both addictive and challenging, and you'd be crazy not to pony up the cash and download it ASAP".

## Trivia

* Halloween, Christmas and Valentine's Day are the only three holidays to be represented in *Angry Birds Seasons* more than once. The summer holiday has appeared more than once, but it is in completely different settings from a picnic to Atlantis, to a continent, a volcano island and then a camp, while Spring events also differ (Go Green, Get Lucky, Easter Eggs, Cherry Blossom, Abra-ca-Bacon and finally Marie Hamtoinette).
* In February 2011, Rovio released a set of five Angry Birds Valentine's Day cards on Facebook which could be shared to your friends. The next year, Rovio would release another set of Valentine's Day cards on Facebook, these ones being different than the 2011 ones. There were also cards for Lunar New Year, St. Patrick's Day, Easter, Halloween and Christmas in the same year.
	+ Season 2013 is the shortest season that has 2 episodes, Abra-Ca-Bacon and Arctic Eggspedition.
	+ Since Haunted Hogs, every "Level Failed" screen has a different screen. The only exceptions are South Hamerica (with Ham Dunk's) and Fairy Hogmother (with Marie Hamtoinette's). Pig Days' Level Failed screen shares the same one as the level's background the level has.
	+ The Ham Dunk update was the last version to have an icon featuring the updated versions of the classic designs. Starting with On Finn Ice, the designs from *Angry Birds Toons* would be used instead.
		- However, Marie Hamtoinette, Summer Camp and the two Piggywood Studios updates would have the designs from the *Angry Birds Movie* on the app icons.
	+ The Arctic Eggspedition update was the last one to feature the updated classic designs in the splash screen. Starting with South Hamerica, they would have their designs from *Angry Birds Toons* on the loading screens, however only Marie Hamtoinette, Summer Camp and the Piggywood Studios updates would use the designs from *The Angry Birds Movie*.

## Gallery

*For the gallery, see Angry Birds Seasons/Gallery.*