Angry Birds for... Linux? I say: YES!

[PhantmKllr]

Chrome users rejoice! Angry Birds now in the Chrome Web Store, for free. :D

Am I the only one excited by this?

[Not unique]

Angry birds for Chromium/Chrome is BRILLIANT !!! Iv'e been waiting for something like this and am using it right now in another tab.

[Islington]

it works in firefox just fine. I dont understand why this game is so popular though.

[stmiller]

http://chrome.angrybirds.com/

[doorknob60]

*cough* http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1755843 *cough*

But yeah, great to see a major popular game ported to HTML5 :) Maybe others will follow their footsteps now and make more HTML5 games.

[PhantmKllr]

But yeah, great to see a major popular game ported to HTML5...

Not HTML 5, but WebGL. HTML 5 isn't sufficient enough to run a game with sprites that complex. Heck, not even JavaScript.

[doorknob60]

Not HTML 5, but WebGL. HTML 5 isn't sufficient enough to run a game with sprites that complex. Heck, not even JavaScript.
Well maybe I don't understand it quite right, but I thought WebGL was sorta a part of HTML5 (in the same way the <video> tags are a part of HTML5, for example). Either way, games with open standards and not Flash, that's what's good, no matter what the technical details behind it are :P

[el_koraco]

I dont understand why this game is so popular though.

Me either. Nitrome ftw!

[PhantmKllr]

Either way, games with open standards and not Flash, that's what's good, no matter what the technical details behind it are :P

I definitely agree with you there.

[krapp]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angry_birds#Other_media

What's so interesting about this tiny little game? Before the iPhone and its "App Store," no cared about these pieces of software that were barely more complex than Tetris.

[Grenage]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angry_birds#Other_media

What's so interesting about this tiny little game? Before the iPhone and its "App Store," no cared about these pieces of software that were barely more complex than Tetris.

Simple game, simple concept, cheap, works on phones. It's the intellectual equivalent of the Sun (UK trash paper), but it's quite addictive.

[speedwell68]

The Windows version of Angry Birds works perfectly under Wine 1.3.

[mips]

the windows version of angry birds works perfectly under wine 1.3.

+1

[HappinessNow]

I prefer Angry Birds Rio

[Not unique]

Not just quite addictive I'm hanging out ill for it when I go to the toilet Ha Ha, I was gutted when they said there would be a Linux version then there wasn't but this is brilliant for ALL and it runs on my old PC with on-board video card too,
Sooo addictive.

PC: Dell Optiple-GX60 32 bits Space-saving Computer
CPU: Intel Celeron 2.4 GHz CPU
RAM: 2 Gb's RAM DDR
HD: 160 Gb Western digital hard drive ATA Disk
Video: Intel Brookdale-G GE Chipset Integrated Graphics Device
Sound: on-board ICH AC'97 Audio controller

[Lucradia]

Meh, game I can never get past the first part :V

*always game over on 1-7.*

Oh well, I'll stick with RPGs, thanks <3

[snowz]

Awesome game :P

[Gerontion]

I have no idea what it is :(

[dh04000]

Hey, is there a way to download this and run it off my desktop?

[Lucradia]

I have no idea what it is :(

It's a physics timewaster.

[Grenage]

It's a physics timewaster.

All games are time-wasters, what's your point? ;)

[Lucradia]

All games are time-wasters, what's your point? ;)

I said physics. >_>

[forrestcupp]

It's just a Crush the Castle knock off. Crush the Castle has worked in Firefox for years.

Crush the Castle is an almost exact knock off of Castle Clout, though.

[dh04000]

Is this free forever?

Or only during the chrome browser/chrome OS beta of it?

[forrestcupp]

Is this free forever?

Or only during the chrome browser/chrome OS beta of it?

It's free for Android forever, so I'll bet it will be free, but ad based.

[Not unique]

It's a physics timewaster.
What?? Will we run out of phisics?
What's your point??

[JDShu]

This game is stupid. What was with the hype? Nobody else could make a similarly polished game?

[Not unique]

If that's the case why don't we have more games like this on Ubuntu/Linux, It seems every time I defend the corner my Windows using friends say "Ubuntu is rubbish there's no games or I would consider it".

[forrestcupp]

This game is stupid. What was with the hype? Nobody else could make a similarly polished game?

The hype is because it was a phone game. It's awesome for a phone, but antique for a computer.

[PhantmKllr]

It's awesome for a phone, but antique for a computer.

I couldn't agree more. Still, it's pretty addicting, no matter what platform you're on (and I still can't get the theme song out of my head).