The Angry Birds Story

How the Angry Bird story unfolded.....

The story of Angry Bird started long back in the year 2003 with their award winning game King of Cabbage World. The developers of the game became winners there in (www.assembly.org) Hartwell Arena in Helsinki, Finland.  - ASSEMBLY is a four day computer festival, in which thousands of people and their computers spend a long weekend meeting friends, playing games, surfing on the net, talking on IRC and enjoying the great productions from the demoscene. The idea is to be there with or without your computer and enjoy the great atmosphere of being with like minded people. ASSEMBLY is for everybody who enjoys doing just a bit more with their computer: be it tweaking your hardware, making web pages, playing games, etc... 

"In 2003, three students from Helsinki University of Technology (currently Aalto University School of Science and Technology), Niklas Hed, Jarno Väkeväinen, and Kim Dikert participated in a mobile game development competition at the Assembly demo party sponsored by Nokia and HP. A victory with a real-time multiplayer game called “King of the Cabbage World” compelled the trio to set up their own company, Relude. King of the Cabbage World was sold to Sumea (now Digital Chocolate), and renamed to Mole War, which became the first commercial real-time multiplayer mobile game in the world." In January 2005, Relude received its first round of investment from a business angel, and the company changed its name to Rovio Mobile. In December 2009 Rovio released Angry Birds, a catapult-puzzle game for the iPhone. Angry Birds has since been downloaded over 42 million times, with paid downloads accounting for more than 25% of total downloads, making it one of the most sold games in the App Store. Today all the name fame and celebrity status what they achieved is due to one and only person who relentlessly encouraged and walk with them long path for the past 8 years and still, the one and only Peter Vesterbacka. 

Peter Vesterbacka is responsible for driving the mobile innovation and instrumental in creating valuable services around mobility through his creation of an ecosystem of 700 + companies around the globe and giving opportunity to new generation companies and providing a level playing ground for all prospective players in the ecosystem. Angry birds is only one of his major stories out of so many other amazing other stories which he has been churning out for past 2 decades silently along the globe.

Location: Helsinki, Finland

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