Bad Piggies Automotive Culture

July 4, 2014, 7:39 am

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I'm a frequent reader of automotive blogs, especially the crazier ones which end up having entire sections dedicated to big trucks, incredible aircraft, and other random items of ridiculous awesomeness thrown into the mix. Thus creatively expanded, auto-culture is all about Awesome with a Capital A!Things that roll are nothing new in the world of Bad Piggies. In fact, a certain piglet in the Angry Birds Toons episode Sneezy Does It probably heralded a trans-pork-tation revolution on Piggy Island by using himself as a wheel instead of attempting the impossible task of physically lifting the Incredible Pork King Pig. But of course, like all great inventors in history, this rolling pig innovation was way ahead of the time and never really caught on. It's probably because this method of locomotion is particularly harmful to the snout. And you know how pig society is: it's all about the size of the snout.

"Get to the chopper!"

In time, with sufficient motivation to invent the wheel (such as, faster access to cake shops, and allowing quicker getaways from Angry Bird attacks), wheeled vehicles have become commonplace on Piggy Island. The first wheeled vehicles in Bad Piggies were quite frankly, ungainly contraptions at best. With the need to traverse rough terrain from pig sty to King Pig's Office, they don't resemble anything we know on Earth. Serious engineers Experts conclude those ridiculous inventions must have been built by aliens or small children or small children given incredible intelligence by alien intervention, or something to that extent.

All Terrain Self-Levelling Hovercraft. With limited parts and no idea how stuff worked, this was my first ever machine built to cross the sandbox. It had a sprung cab for driver comfort - how thoughtful is that!?

Other more ambitious contraptions resembled the result of wondering if sticking 20 supercharged V-8 engines into a barn would be a good idea, and indeed with no emissions control laws in place on Piggy Island, it is rather difficult to resist the temptation of cramming every nook and cranny of a vehicle with power producing equipment. With personal rocket cars in fashion as daily drivers, no one cared about fuel economy until there was an oil crisis and suddenly everyone couldn't afford to put rocket fuel in their cars.Eventually though, pig society did grow weary of all the craziness of the early Industrial Revolution, and as the Pigtorian Age withdrew into the snout-stamped pages of history, there dawned a new era that emphasized practical pigineering over wasteful experimentation. It's no longer good enough to build something large and majestic, it must be good for something. The rise of capitalism also meant that it should be mass-marketable as a product; something useful in the daily life of the modern piglet. With that matching of pigineered product to interested customers, came profit.

A family of well to do Pigtorian Era Pigs.

It was somewhere along those lines that the modern automobile was born in the world of Bad Piggies, and the Pork Motor Company mass-produced a whole range of wheeled vehicles that would not be far off from what we see on the roads today.And as auto-enthusiasts love to point out, you are what you drive. Don't believe me? Check out some real life imaginary examples from Piggy Island today!

1. King Pig: "Truck Yeah!"

The King Pig is so fat large that he commutes to various government offices on a Semi Truck. The King Pig's Office often has to explain why his incredible bulk had broken the scales of a truck weighing station en route. But because he is THE King Pig, he doesn't have to pay fines for being overweight cargo!Joanna from our Facepork page has some exclusive pigtures of the King of the Road ruling the Interstate from her Big Rig!

 2. Moustache Pig: Fire Chief

The Moustache Pig - when not reviewing restaurants in the Houston area, is also the fire department's chief - he owns this Fire Truck which was involved in a dramatic rescue on the Interstate when the King Pig set a car on fire after eating too much chili.

3. Go, Pork Racer, Go!

The young piglets of today, brought up playing generations after generations of "Need for Egg: Pork Pursuit" racing games , definitely love rally "Evolutions" of common passenger cars, sporting huge wings of questionable practicality but considered uber-cool to fellow fans of the sub-culture, "Because Racecar!" Other young piglets decided to do Extreme Makeovers on whatever hand-me-downs they drove in college, to create a variety of incredible custom machines like this lifted van with an "A-Team" spoiler (OMG working independent multilink suspension!) and don't ever forget this low-rider here.As a final year project before graduating from Piggy University, aspiring engineers might even try their hand at replicating the incredible Top Gear Hovervan!

4. Rural Piglets and Illegal Moped Racing!

Piglets living in rural sectors of Piggy Island utilize mopeds as their primary mode of transport; while puny in size, these tiny 50-150cc motorcycles have proven to be incredibly hardy and capable of moving a surprisingly massive amount of cargo. Stripped-down versions of popular mopeds also prove to be quite the handful for local law enforcement, as large groups of "mat rempits" stage illegal races in the wee hours of the night.

The Conclusion

And with all that said, yes, I imagined all that in my head during a boring bout of "real life" work, it's all a figment of my imagination and pigs can't actually drive cars (although, I heard some other animals can!) and there is no such thing as an automotive culture in a sandbox game designed for junior piglets, outside of my tiny little corner of YouTube.But wait, scroll back to the middle of 2013 on the Official Bad Piggies Facepork page and you'll see this: -

"Grand Pork Auto" Artwork by Rovio

If it isn't fanart for the open-world video game "Grand Pork Auto: Andrea's Hog", I don't know what it is! It is said that the Low-Rider scene was invented when the King Pig's Incredible Bulk completely flattened the suspensions of every single production vehicle in the market, making them literally, Grounded to the Ground!

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Additional Credits: Hank Lewis (food reviewer in Houston, Texas, of HankOnFood.com), who performed on video the lines used for King Pig's misadventures, including setting a car on fire, breaking truck weighing stations and causing general mayhem on the Interstate. He also created many plush toy dioramas featuring the Moustache Pig, Mini Moustache Pig and of course the Fat Pig on his 5 year mission to eat his way across the face of the Earth.Joanna Strand, who has covered the entire United States with the King of the Road on the dash of her Big Rig!Disclaimer:The author knows absolutely nothing about actual car culture, besides having an undying adoration for anything V-8 powered, antique and American. Oh, big trucks are awesome too!Be sure to check out our Facepork Page for random insanity, and if you want to read more of my "Epig Fail" bacon journalism,  there are many more articles here in the Pigineering Section of Angry Birds Nest!Random explosions, experimental military technology and crash test piggies may be viewed in the top secret Field of Dreams Proving Grounds at Area Piggy One (51).

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Bad Piggies Weekend Challenge: Build a Shark!

July 7, 2014, 6:53 am

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"Join the Navy and see the world, they said. It will be fun, they said..."

The Bad Piggies Weekend Challenge is steadily becoming crazier and so have we adopted equally insane means to tackle them! Last week we utilized Stark Industries knowhow to develop the Sandwich, Self Assembling, Air Mobile, Mark 42, making all known food delivery technology obsolete in a frenzied flurry of self-propelled buns and rocket-boosted beef patties.Sadly, this technology will likely never see the light of day over the United States of Bacon, due to FAA restrictions on commercial drone flights.But worry not, the Pigineering Department will just sell it to the highest export bidder has strong international ties, after all, we are a worldwide community of Bad Piggies players. This week we accompanied the royal entourage to an island resort "somewhere in the Caribbean", where King Pig was cruising around in a luxury yacht that looked like it was built for a pig five sizes smaller than himself!

Sailing under the moonlight, the King Pig did not notice the ominous whop-whop of whirling ROFLcopter blades nor did he spot the towering black masts looming over the waves like the infamous fin in Jaws. Within seconds, rogue Akula-class (Russian: Shark) attack airships descended upon the hapless, overburdened royal yacht and tore it to pieces with mighty mechanical jaws!In what is to be known as the most infamous Independence Day weekend of them all, the King Pig was forced to cosplay as a fish to avoid being shark fodder while all through the night, Mayday calls filled the airwaves, reporting unidentified hunter-killer "flying sharks" indiscriminately attacking civilian shipping all along the Piglantic coastline.

King Pig in hiding, disguised as a fish in Angry Birds Toons.

The King Pig, addressing the nation the following morning, vowed to hunt down and bring to justice those responsible for this "indiscriminate act of terror"...

To Be Continued...

This article was inspired by various current, past, and near-historical affairs. And of course various obvious references to well known movies. A working prototype of the shark attack can be viewed in the Serenity Barn Swallow video we made some time back. I just scaled down the 'mouth' part for the surprisingly agile flying shark attack simulation.Check out the incredible Bad Piggies Weekend Challenge hosted by Rovio Social Media Crew here on Facebook! Be sure to check out all the awesome Community entries here on Facepork!Pigineering is the original Bad Piggies "Facepork" fanpage, founded after a chance meeting between the Angry Birds team and yours truly sometime in September 2012. Be sure to like our Facepork page and visit the top secret Field of Dreams Proving Grounds at Area Piggy One (51) to see the latest pork secret experimental wonder-machines before Angry Birds invade our lands pop us for 5,000 points!

"I don't see how we can rig THAT for silent running."

Bad Piggies Weekend Challenge: Roller Coaster!

July 12, 2014, 9:58 am

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The Bad Piggies Weekend Challenge is back with all its rolly polly, jalopy goodness! Your mission, should you choose to accept it, is to be Piggy Island's first Roller Coaster Tycoon! That's right, with the Industrial Revolution comes amazing new theme parks for the enjoyment of all piglets, so forget about pushing cardboard boxes down steep slopes, build something modern that pulls 5Gs as it loops the loop! You'll feel like you're in the Danger Zone, buddy!

Build a ... WHAT!?

But wait, you say, there are no roller coaster tracks on any of the sandbox maps! How do you ever build a track? But then, there ain't no time to second-guess yourself, 'cos this message will self-destruct in ten seconds!

The Inspiration

Back in the early days of motorized trans-pork-tation, articulated vehicles were a practical means of trans-porking cargo across mud and ice alike. I've had the luxury of riding in an articulated tracked Armored Personnel Carrier (like this one here) once and it everything about it was definitely awesome!I would imagine that from an external point of view, watching such a contraption go up and down rough terrain would remind me of a roller coaster, albeit a really slow one. Due to technology limitations in Bad Piggies, that's pretty much all you can build if you insist on having your roller coaster remain, as the Toyota ad put it, Grounded to the Ground.

This is how we steal eggs get groceries in Piggy Island!

But as we see in the Pigineering Department's illustrious short history, you have to do like the Romans do in Rome. That means, if you're on Piggy Island, you have to think Pig. The sky is apparently not the limit, and Titan rockets are used to fetch eggs from the "grocery store", so there's nothing overkill about overkill!Without further ado, here's what we came up with - a sky-train that literally flies on rails - stable in a level flight - but with the tendency to pitch up dramatically once its stability augmentation system is turned off.

The Aerodynamics

But how does it work? Simple - if you've built planes and rocket ships in Kerbal Space Program (or alternatively, are familiar with aerospace engineering), you might have encountered such terms as Center of Lift and the Center of Gravity. You might also have caught sight of such aerodynamic principles being widely discussed in modern aircraft design, where virtually all advanced fighter aircraft are designed to be inherently unstable for the sake of agility.In simple terms, placing the Center of Lift (CL) far ahead of the Center of Gravity (CG) in this contraption results in a natural and automatic pitch-up behavior. In normal flight, this pitch-up behavior is counteracted by the huge ROFLcopter rotor up front acting as a stabilizer. The rotor's thrust is located above the ship's CG, and this forces the nose back down. Bear in mind, the huge spinning rotor also creates significant gyroscopic force, so it's all very slow and predictable.Add that to the differing stall speeds between fabric and metal wings, the nose section acting like a movable canard, providing control authority as on the Eurofighter Typhoon, and you have a Bad Piggies creation that's as complex as the real life aircraft and machines that inspire it.This interesting relationship between various unstable components ends up creating a stable, predictable flight path, and the aircraft never goes out of control unless (i) you pitch the nose up by using the small propeller on the nose,(ii), you disable the stability augmentation system (rotor), and (iii) airspeed diminishes to the point where no aerodynamic lift is being generated.

Nose mounted thruster rotates vehicle in a loop once wings are stalled. Vehicle then automatically recovers to level flight after stall recovery.

This thing will then loop the loop on your command, and automatically recover from said loop provided you have enough altitude to space. You could even fly backwards, in a limited fashion, and have a never ending roller coaster track in the sky.

The Point of All This

I could go on all day talking about the flight stability of the contraption being imparted by a series of mutually compensating mechanisms, forging order out of a chaos of junkyard parts, I'll prefer to leave the schematics right here for your bacon-dynamic experimentation pleasure in case you wanted to see if it were really possible to use Bad Piggies as an exercise in basic aerodynamic theory. Try it. It's simple to setup incredible machines, test them, fix them, and perfecting them is endlessly rewarding.

It's really a sky-train design with the CG way aft and CL way forwards making the contraption inherently unstable.

King Pig's "Roller Coaster" executing its looping maneuver as shown in the above video works similarly to how the Russian Su-27 Flankers execute their famous Pugachev's Cobra and other physics-defying aerobatics - the pilot may activate functions which disable the Angle of Attack limiter, allowing the aircraft to pitch up dramatically beyond normal parameters.To me, it's kind of splendid how Rovio has managed to create a deceptively simple game that has limitless potential, but also sad in that those who appreciate such are in the minority. Yes, I get it, game design is all about instant gratification, fast-paced progress and over the top graphics these days...But I like the old days, where games you bought came with manuals that looked like operating instructions for a real fighter aircraft. And you spent months if not years (or even decades) appreciating what was in that game. Bad Piggies of course doesn't come with such things, nor does it pretend to be anywhere close to a 'serious' physics simulator. But true creativity is about re-purposing the most unexpected thing to create something extraordinary in your own special way.That's why, at least for me, Bad Piggies hits the right spot, and will definitely be one of those games that I'll be playing for years, if not decades. It deserves to be recognized as a classic, even if it can't hold a candle to the popularity of Angry Birds. Because to me, whatever I create and spend time with in the Field of Dreams kind of ends up having a 'soul', a machine soul, with individual characteristics and unique operating parameters. It's what makes the hundreds of hours I've spent playing Bad Piggies just about priceless.

We hope you've gained some insight as to what makes the Bad Piggies player tick. It's all about appreciation for art in motion and having some measure of attention to detail!

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The author has played Bad Piggies since 27 September 2012 and founded Pigineering with pork-mission from the King Pig Office (Rovio). Approximately 99% of said play-time was in the Field of Dreams. The author knows nothing about "real engineering" or "aerodynamics" besides crashing paper planes. This is bacon-dynamics - it sounds like aerodynamics and is tastier!

Say hi on my Facepork page and view about a hundred videos of bacon-dynamic expression on YouBacon. Nothing says Freedom louder than bacon-dynamic self-expression!

ThrowbackThursday: Bad Piggies Space Program

July 16, 2014, 10:15 am

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It's Throwback Thursday tomorrow and for this week's special "repork" we bring you some long-promised but never posted news of the Bacon Space Program, where pigs aim for the stars in a mostly-futile bid to boldly go where no snout has oinked before, a million pounds of liquid hydrogen powered puns most definitely intended.The desire to escape Piggy Island and its hostile environment is nothing new. In fact, there might be more than a few valid reasons: -

• Escape Angry Bird attacks;
• Seek out new animal friends, like sheep. Sheep look like walking pillows and don't attack pigs. Sheep are cool, especially Shaun!;
• Not liking the Royal Fatness present government;
• Discover, track & mine Near-Egg-Objects (i.e., Eggsteroids) in the interest of expanding gluttony horizons.
• Fat Pig ate all the food, so for the sake of future generations we have to hide our food on Mars where the Fat Pig's voracious appetite can't create another a-pork-calyptic wasteland.
• To boldly go, where no snout has oinked before.
• Curiosity may be fatal to cats, but not pigs. You've never seen anyone say, "Curiosity killed a pig" do you? It must be safe for pigs to go aimlessly blasting around the Solar System then.
• Everything space related is awesome. Seriously, who doesn't like soaring into the heavens on a pillar of fire!
• The skin of a green pig is rich in chlorophyll and thus Bad Piggies are capable of photosynthesis. A large, fat pig with its own internal atmosphere should be (in my wildest dreams) capable of self-sustained life in deep space, utilizing flatulence as a propulsive mechanism. Every flatulence has an equal and opposite reaction to all bystanders and a particularly pungent one could have the same effect on space-time as a warp drive.
• Steal Angry Birds' eggs by way of aero-ballistic insertion, diving vertically upon the Angry Birds' Nests whist riding a missile "Dr. Strangelove" style.

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Corporal Pig applies Vertical Envelopment strategy upon the 'Nest.

• • •As you can see, there are many reasons why we invest so much in this money wasting scandal grand venture to put bacon and egg permanently into space cuisine.This article about the Bacon Space Program is definitely long overdue, considering we pigs have been secretly working on building Star Destroyers in the dead of night, which is like the most awesome excuse ever for a piglet to tell to a furious Moustache Pig after reporting to class late the next morning.But that's alright, because the Bacon Space Program, despite its years of existence and billions of dollars of wasted money invested, has not managed to put a single thing into orbit. I'm serious, we're not even at Sputnik 1 in the space race chronology. In the meantime, NASA is currently demonstrating the capability to roam as far as Curiosity can go.• • •

Boldly Stealing Eggs, Where No Snout Has Oinked Before!

• • •It has been discussed that the vast gulf of progress between the two space agencies could be compared to a simple difference in developmental philosophy: NASA invests in large scale, next-generation technology that despite the initial development risks, manage to pay vast dividends in the long run. Space-derived technologies had made possible a great number of today's modern conveniences.Our Bacon Space Program, on the other hand, relies on duct-taping a great many primitive components together and hope they all play nice as a system. Duct tape and super glue fixes all things, right?• • •

"Prepare for LUNCH!" hollered the Corporal Pig, as he set alight the fuze to the mighty PORK CHOP tactical ballis-pig missile, proudly made by the lowest bidder.

• • •As history proves, the answer is a resounding "no". Bolting together many small rocket engines onto the same vehicle stage is not a particularly sound engineering strategy, as the failed Russian N-1 moon rocket program would show. No matter how good those little fireworks rockets are individually or in small numbers, one cannot ride with the Valkyries (how's this for mood music!) on an insanely complex assembly of low powered rockets that's bound to fall apart in an uncontrollable spectacle of external combustion.• • • • • •What the Bad Piggies Space Program sorely needed from the get-go was a type of liquid fuelled rocket engine. Liquid fuelled rockets have the tendency to be heavier than a solid rocket stage but they burn as long as you have fuel and oxidizer left in the tanks. And you could fill the majority of a vehicle with liquid propellants! Having a liquid engine and companion fuel tank components in Bad Piggies would have easily solved the glaring issue of having to separate multiple stages of expended solid boosters within the span of a few seconds.Many pigineers have shook their heads at the primitive, Victorian-era levels of technology utilized in our poor man's pig's excuse of a "space program", and stormed out of Mission Control in disgust, vowing to go back to the "honest productive labour" of attempting to steal eggs from Angry Birds' Nests in a Starship Troopers style en masse display of conventional beak to snout combat. That's their loss.• • • • • •For you see, the inability to make Bad Piggies parts work like larger scale versions of the same object in real life, does not stop the enterprising pigineer from reinventing an equivalent of a larger scaled object with true to life capability using different parts.Those puny fireworks won't get a vehicle far, but with their insane power to mass ratio, they're great for imparting a great boost of speed for the first crucial seconds of a rocket's flight skywards. That's what solid rocket boosters do on real rocket ships. They give a short boost to the vehicle for the first minute or minutes from launch, enabling the liquid fuelled core to fly faster and reach further out into the upper atmosphere before stage separation.To simulate the presence of a sustainer engine that keeps said rocket going up, up and away, we utilised the simple combination of the tried and true American V-8 engine driving an airplane propeller. It may not look particularly realistic or proper, but the new "hybrid" rockets have far greater range and payload than the early ballistic missile experiments.• • •

Schematics of the "Bacon 9R" Rocket.

• • •Interestingly, such hybrid aircraft/rocket setups were themselves quite significant in the early Jet Age of Earth. There were quite a number of rocket-boosted jet aircraft that were utilized for speed and altitude record attempts, starting from the aptly named Douglas Skyrocket. While such a concept for a 21st Century fighter aircraft may sound preposterous in an age where hover-capable stealth fighter jets are a reality, remember in the 1950s, jet propulsion was still in relative infancy and turbojet engines of the period tended to be slow to accelerate and had relatively limited thrust.The addition of a rocket motor to produce a burst of high impulse power is thus a logical workaround to technological limitations, just like how on Piggy Island, the wacky V-8 powered "sustainer engine" is a major step forward in our quest to explore what lies above and beyond. While many of the above-featured fictional Bad Piggies spacecraft were built in 2013, the more recent "Bacon 9R" re-usable first stage was designed similarly to the "Alpha Launcher" utilized in our International Space Station module launch parody here:• • •

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The End

Next week in Bad Piggies "Bacon Space Program", we construct a replica of the famously controversial "Moonraker" Space Shuttle mid-air launch and discuss the future of King Pig's Galactic Empire!The author of this article is not a real rocket scientist, astronaut or engineer. In fact, the author knows absolutely nothing about real space programs but is very good at conjuring up enough relevant nonsense to convince Corporal Pig to divert his prized ballistic missile funding towards commencing construction of a Death Star in the year 2016 peaceful exploration of the cosmos.Visit our Facepork Page, Subscribe to YouSnout and check out Trotter for random updates!In the meantime we note Objective No. 2 of the Bacon Space Program (Quote: To seek out new animal friends) had been completed, with reference to Angry Birds Toons: The Truce.

The Sheep says "Meeeeeh!" to the Inter-Farm Pig-Sheep Alliance Against Angry Bird Aggression.

Bad Piggies Weekend Challenge: Gym Body!

July 19, 2014, 7:13 am

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"Bridge to Navigation - are you sure we landed on the right planet!?"

Listen up Piggies, for this Weekend's Challenge you're gonna have to pump some pig iron, because it's time for the annual Piggy Island MANHUNT!That's right, it's the sizzling hot time of the year where large round pigs magically transform soft blubber into abs of steel as they cosplay as human bodybuilders! I know the poster said "Gym Body" but with all the competition around town, which one of you ladies are going to be impressed with merely keeping the fats in check? You might as well audition to be a Spartan Warrior in Hollywood or something!And speaking of that 300-spec six pack you can easily build one in Bad Piggies by stacking up diesel engines in a metal frame. And if you want to make him look more manly, there's always the option of good old American V8s in the chest slots. Remember, it's not about balance - Pig Engineering is all about overkill! Just be sure to get all those carburetors in sync * and he'll be rocking some serious firepower on the beach, baby!* Better get your vacuum gauge and lots of patience ready, for there will be many, many little carburetors!Now, fitness ain't about gaining mass - that hard bod is only useful if it can get something done! With all that horsepower & torque pigpower and porque on tap you could easily make your hunk fly, smash buildings or even work some smooth moves like a MMA pro fighter - it's all up to your imagination (and what's important in fitness to you) so don't just take a screenshot of the build page and call it a day!

"I grant thee the power... of FLIGHT!"

Now I know y'all now want to see some bacon in motion but even Scotty has to take a vacation from changing the laws of physics sometime! Why don't you lend the Pigineering Department a hand and post some glorious physiques (PIG physiques only, mind you!) in the comments below & on my Facepork page?

Weekend Challenge: The Transforming Octopus!

July 28, 2014, 12:02 pm

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Build a what!?

Let me start off with this little bit of motivational speaking, in the style of all things Ambitious but Rubbish.As crazy as this Weekend Challenge is, which is somehow build an octopus from a little pile of Lego, a few tubes of Krazy Glue and a few crated engines from General Motors, I didn't think it was crazy enough. If the challenge involved attempting a moonshot, you might as well make it completely impossible for your crew and yourself by redefining your terms of participation in the Weekend Challenge. Just so you can make such grand sweeping statements like "Don't Call me Shirley" "We did it not because it was easy, but because it was hard". Face it, refreshing the Bad Piggies Facebook Page for a dozen times a minute and 'ambushing' the Weekend Challenge announcement with an immediate image post is something everyone can do. But what about waiting patiently for the topic, taking a nap and coming back tomorrow with donut tanks filled to the brim and internal brain spaces cleared of any boring household chores unwanted distractions?That's right, the first five minutes of you coming out of good ol' uninterrupted sleep delivers the best kind of creative environment baconly possible. If you're like me, you might even dream of fictional re-imagined 60s' rocket ships made possible by modern technology and how to cram the most amount of combustion chambers into the smallest possible cylindrical volume without the barest bit of respect to thermodynamic efficiency.But you didn't come here to hear me rant and rave about whatever invaded my mind, now ten minutes after waking from my nap and unwelcome distractions such as "honey, where's my dinner" start to rear their ugly head. No, you wanted to hear what I had planned for the Weekend Challenge and how to make the entire Pigineering Crew mutiny and abandon ship to play Angry Birds Epic.So what did I have in mind that was so terrible?

This contraption is more than meets the eye...

I wanted to build a transforming contraption. As in seriously, plot out a desired final form, work backwards slowly by trial and error to fold, rotate, transmute, de-evolve said result back into its component parts until it looked like nothing more than a single-celled organism looking as forlorn as like you told it there's a zillion years of painful evolution before he could be an eagle or a lion.And then you play it back, like five hundred times over the course of a few hours, scrapping the prototype along the way until you had an "eureka!" moment where at least one component managed to transform itself correctly amid an ocean of epig failure.

Bad Piggies with tentacles! Run! Run far away!

But as the saying goes, epig failure is the mother of success, so eventually King Pig's cranky old music box encountered the Allspark and transformed into an enormous mecha-octopus in front of everyones' gaping eyes, affixed in fear upon the monstrous contraption towering above the city hoping humanity didn't make the mistake of decommissioning the Jaeger Program just yet.Piglets and Gentlehogs, allow me to present the most insane contraption of them all, the progenitor of all things Transformers and Bad Piggies - Orion Octohogx!• • •

Name our first Bad Piggies Transformer in the comments box!

• • • Engineer's Notes:To get the animation for the octopus working right, I went to a supermarket that had an awesome Japanese produce section and played with a gigantic octopus tentacle. Seriously, it was huge.Visit our Facepork Page for more bacon-infused insanity and be sure to check out our YouSnout Videos for more tales of epig failure.

Bad Piggies Weekend Challenge – Pork to the Future!

August 3, 2014, 9:19 am

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OMG! Are those Legionaries of the Bacon Empire!?

Desperate times call for desperate housewives measures, and as Corporal Pig devises crazy "wonder weapons" to turn the tide of war, professor pigs at the Pork Propulsion Labs of the National Piggy Space Administration develop and test new technologies that have until recently, only existed in pulp fiction. But this week's contraption definitely didn't exist in your 1932 edition of Amazing Stories of Super Science, because we're going Back to the Future!Everyone knows engaging a flux capacitor at a velocity of 88 miles an hour will result in temporal displacement. But as you know it's not the idea, but the execution that counts.

Fire trails after successful temporal displacement... or is it roast pork?

It's too easy to put a flux capacitor on a rocket and reach 88 MPH in just over a second, but can its passenger survive the immense G forces? Is the rocket pig-rated? Did you inform the military of your rocket launch in advance so Corporal Pig doesn't reply with massive nuclear retaliation? It's all too complicated to comprehend for a lay-piggy like myself and with the urgent need to cook up a storm, tend to sheep and practise Good Housekeeping all at once, I decided on a vastly more elegant and simple solution.Why not hook up a car with the flux capacitor to a locomotive and run it down a one-way track at full tilt?! Images of runaway trains may be very this moment passing through your mind, but if Spartans sought glorious death in battle, then porcine scientists seek no greater honor than selfless sacrifice in the name of SCIENCE!Hurry up and launch that contraption before the Health and Safety guys see it! May the odds of survival ever be in your favor!

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88mph achieved. Activating flux capacitor!

Engineer's notes:You may notice the Bad Piggies game engine's collision detection may be temporarily disabled by high velocity impacts, thus, objects are able to penetrate the terrain boundaries. It can lead to interesting proposals such as to build drilling rigs to access underground egg deposits.I wouldn't call them glitches. They're hilarious 'unintended features' that can be used for creative storytelling, like this instance of a freak "lightning storm in space" causing disruptions to air travel.With the upcoming 2nd anniversary for the launch of Bad Piggies on September 27, be sure to stop by our Facepork page for more ridiculous bacon-themed mayhem. Bacon consumption is not required for participation.

Workout Wednesday: Bad Piggies Fitness Workout!

August 6, 2014, 8:05 am

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Before I begin, let me state that the following article has no precedent in the history of Piggy Island. Never before have so many piglets owed so much to the efforts of one pig to transform Pig Society now and forever.Last weekend's fitness frenzy resulted in a number of pigs participating in what seemed to be a series of Spartan-esque workouts led by the Corporal Pig, transforming Flabby Green Blobs into Pig Iron in two days flat!

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If push-ups, Shaolin Kung Fu cartwheels, free climbing and smashing King Pig's dining table to pieces bench presses are not enough then check out this supplemental exercise created by Mahdi Prs! It's certainly as intensive and mindset-changing as it looks! We call that exercise... the Brain Damage! No kidding...Three hundred of King Pig's finest then paraded forth to the mountain pass at Pigini Beach of their own accord, presumably to defend our great bacon nation against an invading horde of "more than a million" Angry Birds led by the Mighty Eagle while the rest of us mere mortal piglets concentrate on feasting and sleeping off the weekend before the impending doom of Monday struck us all down with endless torrents of blue-hued boredom.As the three hundred passed outlying towns and villages, the sight of such pristinely pig, Greek physiques garnered immense attention from the peasantry, for none have caught sight of such magnificence what with a regiment of towering men clad in glistening steel, powered by fifty diesel engines per muscle strand (sic). Here, we see the King Pig, Smooth Cheeks the Large, Eater of the 100x100 Burger and Devourer of Pillows, Great Leader of the Expeditionary Force pose for the cameras in a rare impromptu press conference in King Pig's natural habitat - a beach party! (Source: Government Press)

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Pig Muscle July 2014 special edition - FREE, for the contribution of just ONE EGG! What are you waiting for!?

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And with that one single centerfold appearance in a never-before-seen Pig Fitness publication, the King Pig had changed Piggy Island's perceptions of its government as a whole.Will the King Pig be hailed as the great leader of a piggy fitness revolution, motivating our green couch potatoes to go out and do something, anything, or will he be universally mocked into the next Great Depression by legions of laughing piglets?Only time will tell us how this new pork-paganda effort from the King Pig Office will fare, but one thing is certain. This particular Weekend Challenge was totally ridiculous, but we adore the awesome Bad Piggies Social Media team from Rovio that much more for always giving us something fun to do (and make fun of!) each week.And on that note, please do check out the rest of the Bodybuilding Pigs on the Official Bad Piggies Facebook Page, because they're awesome fun! You may have to login to Facebook to view all the glorious hunks of bacon in the comments section of this image!Check back later this week for some fun new Bad Piggies developments such as underground mining and whatever Rovio thinks of for the next Weekend Challenge. I may not do the next installment of the Bacon Space Program this soon as I want to stay away from rocket and aircraft related topics for a while. In the meantime I've already put in my suggestion for a motorcycle building challenge because as they say, Two Wheels Bad, and that means Good for Piggies!It may sound a bit off topic talking about motorcycles in a pig fitness article, but to me, nothing's better after a good workout than a nice cruise on country roads. Never fails to make me feel that much more appreciative about life in general.

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I haven't built a proper Hog for my green Hogs, so I'll make do with these fun little Malaysian mopeds!

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Bad Piggies Weekend Challenge – Build a Motorcycle!

August 10, 2014, 7:38 am

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You know, we've been pushing for this topic for more than a month!

Everyone loves Hogs, so for a while now I've been pushing for Motorcycles as a topic for the Bad Piggies Weekend Challenge! Now you can build a Hog for your Hog, and Hog while you Hog!Building a motorcycle in Bad Piggies is pretty simple, because all you need is two wheels and anything in between them can be anything you imagine. To avoid making your piggy bike look like a squared-off pickup truck, simply experiment with assembling parts at an angle. With some practise you can end up with a plausibly realistic suspension setup with functional swing-arm and some self-balancing ability so long as engine torque is applied.

Simulated Asian mopeds utilized for dispatch and cargo hauling purposes.

While it can be challenging to create a bike with the "correct" mid-engine, rear wheel drive layout, no one says you can't create an all wheel drive or even front wheel drive motorcycle. The capability to power the front wheel of a motorcycle is not mechanically impossible, although rarely seen on production models save for some unique examples meant for heavy duty off-road use.Now that you have a bacon powered motorcycle, all you have to do is find a use for it. Try using the old sandbox levels as a sort of MotoX course, or create multiple small vehicles in Field of Dreams and practise your mad overtaking skills!

And you thought lane-splitting was bad?

If you add wings to your motorcycle you can even do some pretty spectacular wheelies! The small airplane tail parts are relatively light and work nicely to add stability when your front wheel is pointed skywards, similar to how clever management of weight balance and throttle modulation (with no small amount of skill!) can sustain a wheelie in real life.Now that you have enough inspiration to break the rules of reinvent motorcycle design, have at it and post your own examples below and on the Pigineering Facepork page!

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Bad Piggies Weekend Challenge – Build a Birthday Cake!

August 17, 2014, 8:34 pm

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While our earlier Friday Fave attempt didn't make the grade in the eyes of the King Pig (maybe he doesn't like us calling him fat?), there was ample consolation this weekend in the form of the following Weekend Challenge!

Don't forget Bad Piggies' 2nd Birthday on September 27 2014!

Who doesn't like cake? Absolutely no one. Cake is the solution to all the world's problems. Cake satisfies hunger, puts a smile on everyone's face, and is available in approximately ten zillion shapes and sizes. Cake can also solve many economic and political problems in the world today, should humans have the desire to be more fun and practise our proven culture of Eating and Sleeping (tm).I mean, why resort to violence to solve problems when you could "Let Them Eat Cake" instead? I promise you, a cake-wielding government figurehead like our friend here the Royal Fatness wouldn't have any problems being re-elected for life. Governments of the World - don't be El Cheapo and give out some free cake to the hardworking populace!

King Pig wields a cake in Angry Birds Epic! Screenshot by DH Kim

With the effectiveness of a cake-driven strategy easily proven at birthday parties, it's now time to adapt the cake to the needs of our great bacon nation. If our citizens desire to eat and sleep all day and complain that needing to get up and walk to the grocery store is exhausting, we shall endeavour to bring cake to the waiting mouth of the hungry piglet, wherever he may be. Vamos vamos mi tarta! 

Cake too big to handle? Call 1800 TOW-A-CAKE.

Road-going cakes appear splendid for deliveries to piggies living in civilized lands built up areas, while for dispatches to more remote rural settlements, we adapted the Russian Aerosani technology for a hover-cake capable of sliding across the vast Siberian tundra at high speeds, structural integrity not guaranteed. For yet more remote locations only accessible by ROFLcopter, we also submitted an unsolicited proposal for a jumbo-sized flying cake (barely) capable of vertical takeoff and landing, although during flight testing it disintegrated as soon as it reached the ground and its contents were immediately devoured by the natives. What savages! Someone needs to teach them some table manners! And use some proper cutlery already!

Cake of Aerial Fright en route to a transatlant-pig customer.

No matter, the needs of the many outweighed the importance of that one cake. What are you waiting for? Aren't you raiding nearby refrigerators and grocery stores for cake already?

Author's Notes:Last year I spammed enough posts about cakes and bacon and eventually the Baconery replied with this massive bacony monument to culinary awesomeness!

BACON CAKE OMG! Put that in my face right meow!

Bad Piggies Weekend Challenge Recap: BACON Construction Vehicles! Share Your Creations

August 25, 2014, 11:19 am

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You'd think with the ridiculously unstable, top heavy structures featured in every single level of Angry Birds, the pigs have nothing in the way of architectural talent, right?With International Bacon Day just round the corner, we need to set the record straight on this one, for the full might of the Bad Piggies' engineering talent are being put to the test this Weekend Challenge!

Bacon Construction Vehicles!

We were proven quite wrong in Angry Birds Toons last year when the King Pig summoned his personal army of Bacon Construction Vehicles to construct the world's piggest sandcastle of all time.Only serious, highly developed civilizations would invest so much men pigs and materiel into the construction of enormous porcine engineering vehicles and we are pleased to note the Bad Piggies do not disappoint with their aspirations to be Master Builders, which is why we have consistently reused the above image again and again to prove an often overlooked point that pigs are not as fat and lazy as they seem. Well, actually, piggies are indeed fat and lazy, but like all great peoples, the Bad Piggies have from time to time bravely rose up to answer the call of breakfast and just a few days ago, fought valiantly over a last slice of cake in the manner resembling the beautifully civilized Pigtorian Age... except with sharp tails, not pistols.But enough of reminiscing about our gentle-pig-ly past and on to the subject of the Weekend Challenge. King Pig's mission, should you choose to accept it, definitely requires a hard hat and and boring lectures on safety regulations, because OMG! Bacon Construction Vehicles! Need I say more?

"What is Pigger than a Digger" - Rovio

"Driver! Demolish that slum and retrieve the egg!" "Boss, there's a pumpkin still living in the apartment!"

For our Weekend Challenge entry, the conventional excavator design was utilized to good effect to produce a passably realistic shape, albeit with wheels for simplicity and speed in lieu of proper caterpillar tracks. Additionally, with no small amount of Bacon-Dynamic engineering talent, the hydraulic arms of the digger are definitely functional, although I was not able to obtain enough striking velocity on the ground to actually "dig" the entire bucket to penetrate the ground (by virtue of inadvertently breaking the game engine's physics). You're certainly welcome to try and post the result in our Facepork page!For the excavator's primary tool, the bucket, a metal wing object was utilized as it sticks out at just the correct perpendicular angle from the base of the arm to function as such. Diggers are also regularly seen in construction sites and roadworks equipped with powerful hydraulic jackhammers - this is simulated in our Bad Piggies Excavator by the ROFLcopter rotor which in addition to supplying torque to move the primary arm, also serves as a claw to move and break objects with. To counter the massive torque of such a large hydraulic arm, King Pig was told to sit on the engine deck to prevent the whole vehicle from toppling, while a massive shock absorber assembly was mounted on the movable arm right where you'd expect the mighty hydraulic pistons to be on a real digger.The piece de resistance of our design is not just in simulating the digger's equipment, but also the range of motion you'd expect from watching decades of bright yellow JCBs toil around your neighborhood. After all, the Pigineering Department prides itself on its ability to deliver not just look-alikes of real world machinery, but a defining feature of what I post on YouTube is that said machinery should be able to function in a manner identical to its real life counterpart as well. With the exception of flying aircraft carriers, of course - they don't exist (yet).Watch the video below to view a simulated demolition scenario, where a block of slum apartments is demolished to make way for a new highway across the Field of Dreams.

Check out that awesome articulation!

Author's Notes:Construction sites and all their massive machinery are so full of awesome. However it is a pity that people don't give builders the respect they deserve where the author presently resides, and such jobs are typically outsourced to low-wage labor from developing nations.Well, that's why the author chose to study pork-hanical engineering! :)Visit www.pigineering.com for more egg-xamples of random pig engineering and epig failure with every click. Remember, we "Never Fail to Fail!"

Bad Piggies Weekend Challenge Recap – Build a Fire Truck!

September 2, 2014, 12:47 pm

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Last weekend we were not able to send out the fire truck in time and by the time we put down our donuts, the entire Pig City was in ruins and the aroma of bacon filled the air, for it was International Bacon Day last Saturday!

Save the Bacon!

Indulging in the finest pig tradition of Eating and Sleeping, I was on the wrong side of the border fence to be able to post this article on time as animals of the Sheep-Pig-Cat Alliance was reviewing the King Pig's most evil of plans unveiled in sunny Malaysia, but nevertheless, Rovio was kind enough to pick a Weekend Challenge machine that the Pigineering Department wouldn't feel left out, for we had somehow created a working fire bacon truck a full year ago!

As you can see, the Pigineering Department always strives to create not just show-worthy but functional objects to showcase the art and science of bacon-dynamics; our fire truck features not just working water-cannon on a swivelling arm to direct streams of cooling soda to just the right parts of sizzling bacon (regardless of it being Canadian, British or American bacon) while remaining compact enough to fit in a burning prop of your favourite disaster scene!Now I will ask you, devout followers of Bacon - what does your fire-rescue vehicle look like, and who did you save with it? Comment below...

Bad Piggies Weekend Challenge Recap – Build a UFO!

September 14, 2014, 8:43 am

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Piggy Island's favorite porcine physician, Dr. Pork, recently discussed a case of "UFO ingestion" in his medical journal, although he admitted passing out from an overdose from medication consumed soon after attending to the patient in question and was unable to provide further details.

A case of "ingestion of foreign object".

As a result, Rovio tasked the community with investigating the UFO phenomenon by constructing replicas of alien vessels such as Space Invaders and flying saucers. Valuable aerodynamic and propulsion system research data was then forwarded to the Piggy Island Space Administration's Pork Propulsion Laboratories for use in general advanced aerospace studies. Classified sources also state the multinational extraterrestrial combat unit X-COM had expressed interest in obtaining suitable prototypes for trials in their Firestorm project.

"Distinct metallic crunch, with an aftertaste of Elerium-115!"

With not one but two resulting Piggy Toons episodes proving the existence of UFOs on Piggy Island, piglets around the world are highly entertained by the thought of eating alien spacecraft and floating off into space. And now, you can build them too and maybe create a 'UFO defence' storyline on top of that!

While most piglets are concerned with mythical flying saucers and alien abductions (note: do not eat alien spacecraft!), last year we also set out to prove that the ability to detect, classify and engage vessels of extraterrestrial origin is beneficial for all pig-kind!In this video, various Bad Piggies contraptions based in Russia defend the Motherland from an incursion of 'eggsteroids' from outer space following the Chelyabinsk meteor event.But let's not forget that Rovio games are all about having fun and not getting overly serious about the defense of Earth because we have the fabulous X-COM games for that! Here's a couple of simple yet awesome little "UFO" themed contraptions, first, the prolific E.T. bicycle scene by our Facebook/Twitter fan Milton, and a screenshot of the previous Space Invader by yours truly.

P.T. Fly Home!

Good retrogaming fun!

Author's Note:While we're having fun with taking Rovio's Weekend Challenge initiative, let's not forget there are many other Bad Piggies fans out there doing their part to keep this unique and highly creative game alive, despite it being 'dead' as in, no updates are expected for this title in future as Rovio's development teams do what they do best in line with their corporate vision - creating the next generation of mobile entertainment.Check out the Bad Piggies' official Facebook page here, the home of Friday Faves, Weekend Challenges, and many other random items of awesomeness.

Bad Piggies Toilet Simulator 2014 – The Sequel

September 20, 2014, 7:50 am

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We are proud to present a sequel to our award-winning (yeah right!) hit of earlier this year, the Bad Piggies Toilet Simulator 2014.Porcine hygiene is of paramount imporktance now that a (bird?) flu outbreak has run amok amid the crowded streets of Pig City, and furthermore the high population density found in modern high-rise pig stys is not helping matters.

Typical rush hour in Pig City depicts high pork-pulation density.

With Dr. Pork's endless stream of patients testing his patience, maximum pun intended, the Pigineering Department was called in to assist "in any way baconly possible".We decided to tackle the problem at its source and developed an industrial strength washing machine for use in the royal grounds, after the palace staff commented that they had severe issues with keeping His Royal Fatness clean between endless episodes of childish drama now entering its second season in Angry Birds Toons.

Now that the King Pig is back to his natural sheen of bright green, we hope the rest of Piggy Island's porcine population will follow suit, although street-level examples leave much to be desired in terms of toilet etiquette...

Fat Pig - Y U DO DIS!?

The above Pigture was contributed by Hank Lewis of HankOnFood.com!

Bad Piggies Will Turn 2 Soon! But First, A Tribute…

September 20, 2014, 8:01 am

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As you are well aware, 27th September is a day that will live in infamy in the minds of all beings avian and furious, for on that fateful day the Bad Piggies took the app stores by storm! Against all odds, cute little puny green piglets boldly went where no pig had oinked before, stealing eggs and crashing cakes worldwide in a super-pig-sonic display of total sizzling bacon annihilation.

Go Green! Play Pigs! Resistance against the Awesomeness of Bacon is Futile!

Each year on September 27, the Pigineering Department will gather Tributes from the outlying districts and sent them forth to the great Capitol of Rovio-land not to participate in the Annual Hunger Games but to garner just enough fan-made awesomeness to try and persuade the game-makers that a sequel to our favourite sandbox game might be a good idea for those of us who enjoy honing our skills in mechanical engineering while everyone else gets distracted by transforming things and Pink Angry Birds of Cuteness +5 depending on whether they are boys or girls.Last year's Tribute was a short video depicting the evolution of bacon technology from push-cart to Star Destroyer - a completely "epig" quantum leap in porcine engineering egg-cellence spearheaded by our completely random, totally international crew of desperate house-pigs and swashbuckling Master Builders who shed their Lego bricked comfort zones and replaced them plastic bricks with fire-breathing monsters of V-8 fury - and I don't mean the vegetable juice either!

I am sure there are many other great contraptions and pigineers out there vying for the limelight but unfortunately there is only one winner in the Hunger Games so much space in one article in which to contain all the world's awesomeness. Why not nominate your own community / your channel / your Bad Piggies creations / yourself in the comments section? Come on, don't be shy, there are no Birds around this comment box, right? :)

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Bad Piggies Weekend Challenge RECAP – Build a Pirate Ship

September 21, 2014, 4:22 pm

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It's like Pirates of the Caribbean, only Pigger.

To coincide with the launch of Plunder Pirates this week and Talk Like a Pirate Day, Rovio Community has issued a directive that Piggy Island's shipbuilding industry is to provide support to the privateers of Pork Royale.As Porcine Politicians debate over who is to blame for such an absurd association that is sure to doom our great bacon nation's good international standing (yeah right), a variety of indigenous commerce raiding vessels have just appeared out of nowhere hours ago on the popular social media site Facepork.In the meantime, we have received reports that the King Pig's Imperial Yacht has just sent out a distress call in the Caribbean. While military forces struggle to mount a trans-Piglantic rescue operation, local news sources have furnished dramatic footage of two pirate sloops boarding the unarmed Imperial vessel in succession.

Aside from the abovementioned tragic disappearance of the King Pig, the Imperial Navy would appreciate the Bad Piggies Community's continued efforts to document and post photographs and videos of suspected pirate vessels to aid the efforts of Combined Task Force 150 currently performing maritime security operations in the Indian Ocean. In other words, let your creativity roam free and post whatever makes you go ARRRRRR!!!!!

Imperial Navy Patrol Vessel "Outer Haven II " (built by Alfiandi) in pursuit of a pirate vessel in the Rovio Sea.

Happy 2nd Birthday Bad Piggies!

September 27, 2014, 8:03 am

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Two long years of fun and excellent community collaboration!

What's so important about 27th September 2014? You don't get fireworks, or huge presents or food festivals, but just two short years ago, the King Pig's Office released a surprise puzzle game that took app stores (iOS / Google Play) around the world by storm!Never before have the Bad Piggies attempted to break out of cover to make a run for the publishing office to try and get the world's attention, because they'd inevitably get popped by a hundred million Angry Birds fans!But try they did, and with perhaps some application of stealth roflcopter technology or maybe just being inspired by ninja movies, they managed to slip through the frontlines undetected to deliver their message of peace, love, and endless demands for food to the world at large.With this strategy of global bacon outreach, it is ironic that the Pigineering Department (Facebook / Twitter) has kept itself secluded from most of the world and instead work on generating its own identity and produce practical (or silly, or silly and practical like a double-decker couch) machinery under contract from the King Pig's Office.Just like iconic small scale British automobile companies which, as Jeremy Clarkson humorously states, "work out of a small shed in Leicestershire", we do have a bit of a cult following and some very close friends, who from time to time come by and make sure I get a ticket to the Capitol to participate in the Annual Hunger Games so that I may gorge upon its opulent culinary charms...

In return for the Capitol's generous contributions to my small outlying District, I have prepared the above small but valuable tribute to the King Pig's Office, documenting our continued and whole-hearted efforts to try and satisfy the insatiable appetite of His Majesty the King Pig, Royal Fatness of the Bacon Empire and Protector of All Snoutlings, giving him whatever he may desire from the far corners of the world. Along the way, our part-time pizza delivery drivers and unlicensed bacon pilots face many occupational hazards, both from the environment and being permanently cursed with a 100 percent chance of pure Epig Failure!This video was co-authored with Hank Lewis of HankOnFood.com, a Houston, Texas restaurant review blog.Speaking of fails, it's not really our way to point fingers and pass blame, since accidents inevitably do happen in the best of times, and having a forgiving nature is part and parcel of being a civilized piglet. Unlike other animals, we don't get angry and smash things up when things don't go our way.We'll just hit the replay button and soldier on, keeping calm and drinking tea as we cruise into the sunset, Bad Piggies style!Should the Bad Piggies ever release an update for this future classic, or create an even better sequel, I'm sure they'll know we're ready to aim for the Moon on their behalf. And if we miss, we'll just end up amongst the stars!

Why is the Moon green!? That's no Moon, it's the Fat Pig!

Engineer's Notes: Some of the contraptions you see in our YouTube Channel required literally, hundreds upon hundreds of retries before they worked right! You have to be both a master builder and a micromanager to command all the ridiculously complex multi-vehicle setups.But unlike the Joint Strike Fighter project... we didn't consume a trillion dollars out of the defence budget :)

Bad Piggies Weekend Challenge – Trampoline!

October 4, 2014, 2:18 pm

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Yeah, they told us to build a trampoline. We took... creative liberties to explain why one was needed!

The King Pig has put on so much weight this year that no amount of Photoshop and mechanized workouts can mask the obvious fact that he is losing the Battle of the Bulge!In secret, the King's advisors devised a rather interesting if not outright hilarious weight loss plan for the "Royal Fatness", modelled on none other than hard-sell tactics typical in certain wellness related businesses that a number of well-to-do humans often frequent.By giving King Pig a coupon for a FREE trial of a new weight loss solution to try out, he will walk right into the waiting trap, be unable to opt out of the package, and become a new fitter, less lazy, and overall more attractive government figurehead!Or so we hope. Will the below-shown weight loss "strategy" be efficient for the ever-lazy King Pig? Let us know below!

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Writer's Note: Based on a true story! If it's too good to be true, don't sign up for it :)

Bad Piggies Weekend Challenge RECAP – Build a Throne! (With an iOS8 Fix)

October 12, 2014, 6:37 pm

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How would the King Pig fare in the Game of Thrones?

Good news! The Bad Piggies dev team has fixed the game late last week, hopefully solving the iOS8 issues that have been affecting iPork users around the world.You do know what an iPork is, do you? It's like an iPad, only Pigger :)

"What's New in Version 1.5.4 We have now added support for iOS 8."

Rovio gave the community a challenge last weekend, to enter the King Pig into the Game of Thrones.Most of the Weekend Challenge entries to date would likely involve building a great big chair for the large, round and green Bacon Royalty to rule from, but Rovio didn't state what kind of throne was desired.You could build a self-propelled throne, a flying throne (maybe a lawn chair, to save cost), or even a completely different type of throne made out of porcelain!You could even try and explain the science involved in controlling such an unwieldy thing as a flying throne with a fat pig on it, like so!

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The choice is up to you, maybe, after devouring too much chili and beans, a Porcelain Throne would be most suitable for the Royal Fatness? Why don't you share some of your thrones below?

Bad Piggies Weekend Challenge RECAP – You See? I Saw!

October 19, 2014, 9:59 am

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You "See" what I did last night?
Oh yeah - I "Saw" what you did the other day.
Hahahaha! See Saw, geddit?

This Weekend Challenge, trade in your Yee Haw for a See Saw for the King Pig desires a new addition to his Royal Playground! Vámonos amigos, El Puerco is not known for his patience!As you can see from the wee little demonstration video below, we decided to go with full metal construction and multiple redundant ground tethers for good reason - the King Pig's incredible bulk would break anything lesser!

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Did you make a See Saw for a Yee Haw last weekend? Our fan HankOnFood.com surely did (and don't call me Shirley), and he has a much simpler and overall less "Vorsprung Durch Technik" solution to creating a teeter totter!

A teeter totter that can also be used as transporkation? Someone patent this thing!

 If you missed out on the Weekend Challenge, we don't blame you. Maybe were you busy tracking Hambo's epig Indiana Jones style tomb raiding, fridge busting adventure?Oink out in the comments below!

Bad Piggies Weekend Challenge RECAP – Build a Racecar!

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Minion takes the lead as the King Pig pulls into the amusement park to pick up a balloon!

It's almost the first anniversary of Piggy Island's premier race series Angry Birds GO! and the King Pig is now soliciting crowd-sourced ideas for a next-generation race car! Guard those eggs well or they'll be Gone in Sixty Seconds!While the Bad Piggies Facebook community was busy modifying the formula of ham for increased culinary perfection and devising new forms of synthetic bacon to fuel their collective appetites, we decided to turn the contest up to eleven by watching the most awesome racing anime ever created on Earth - Redline (wiki).Redline features over the top animation and enough aural and visual awesomeness to cause the average human brain to implode spontaneously during the first 15 minutes of the film. Survivors will likely re-watch the entire movie repeatedly, according to fan commentary.

Over the top car design! Can you win by blocking the whole track and lobbing missiles at competitors?

Such a level of complete and utter insanity makes Redline the perfect inspiration for our little weekend racecar experiment compiled in one easy video below for your amusement.Which car is best suited for the King Pig? Comment below...

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Bad Piggies Weekend Challenge – Earthmover!

November 19, 2014, 12:55 pm

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Bacon Construction Vehicles - Roll Out!

The King Pig is not pleased at the recent delays in "redeveloping" Golden Island. He has commissioned a new series of pigger and better construction machinery. The Bad Piggies community immediately swung into action (link) but the Pigineering Department held back until the last minute to reveal their greatest example of bacon-industrial superiority yet - the Air-Mobile Engineering Vehicle!The AMEV is part excavator, part bulldozer and part aircraft. Watch the video below for a demonstration of Piggy Island's first functional heavy duty earthmoving equipment!

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Engineer's Note:The Bad Piggies have asked for an Excavator before. View our entry here.

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Oinks Not Dead! Rovio Teases New Bad Piggies Update or Game

February 24, 2015, 8:14 am

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This morning Rovio and the Bad Piggies team shocked the world by Tweeting an image that says, "Oinks Not Dead". Below is the full Tweet:

OiNk! Big things in store for Bad Piggies this year, folks. It begins very soon – with something little... pic.twitter.com/A6o6Sxz1ju

— Bad Piggies (@BadPiggies) February 23, 2015

It's entirely possible this is a completely new game (with a new name) and not an update to Bad Piggies. When we know more we'll be sure to share it here.So what do you all think it is? Leave a comment below.

The Next PIG Game

Thanks to @bad-piggies-2 for sharing this video below that talks about "The next PIG game".

Bad Piggies Updated with Little Pig Adventures Sandbox Level & New Gearbox Part

February 26, 2015, 6:31 am

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Prince Porky and Mechanic Pig are back in a new Bad Piggies update that includes a new Sandbox level, "Little Pig Adventures", as well as a new Gearbox part. Bad Piggies v1.6.0 is now available for iOS and Android via Google Play and the Amazon App Store.This update includes:

• A GIANT new Sandbox level: Little Pig Adventures. This level is similar to Field of Dreams in that it has 40 boxes to obtain (walkthroughs).
• Gearbox Part: "Ever wish you could put your contraptions in reverse? The pigs now have the technology. Add the gearbox to your contraptions to travel to the right AND left!" I have yet to find this part in the inventory. If you've found it please leave a comment below and let us know where to obtain it.
• Quickly switch between three different contraptions. Tap the compass icon to the right of the pause button and you'll see three icons labeled: 1, 2, and 3. Tap these to switch between the different versions of your contraptions.
• You are now prompted to enter your birthday and sex before you're allowed to continue into the app. Presumably this is to tailor the ads, but I could be wrong. I sort of hope it is, as in recent weeks I've seen a number of ads that are definitely not appropriate for young kids. If you share a device, you might consider entering a young age.

From Rovio's blog post:

Since it's launch in 2012, Bad Piggies has reached over 100 million downloads – thanks to the big part played by a strong community of avid pigineers! To celebrate, the piggies are back with something new. The new update includes a huge sandbox level, Little Pig Adventure, and a new part – the gearbox. Players can use the gearbox in their contraptions to travel in reverse. It sounds simple yes – but for the pigs, it's groundbreaking technology.Can you harness the power of the gearbox to create the ultimate flying/rolling/crashing machine and steer the pigs safely to their destination?The new Little Pig Adventure sandbox pushes players' engineering skills to the limit with new parts to collect, slippery icy surfaces, a huge play area to navigate, and new achievements. Collect all starboxes, and add some new parts to your collection!

Read the complete post here.Congratulations to the Piggies for 100 Million downloads, and congrats to our very own Pigineers on the name drop, as well! Hope we can convince @les-toreadors and the rest of the Pigineering crew to start building some amazing new contraptions! If you guys haven't seen the amazing videos Pigineering produces they're definitely worth checking out.

Helpful Links

• Check out our walkthroughs for Bad Piggies! The newest levels will be online soon.
• Our Complete Hidden Skulls Guide is there for you!
• Need help in those massive Sandbox levels? Some of the boxes are tricky, so our Complete Sandbox Guide is a good reference.
• Got a need for speed? OurRoad Hogs walkthroughs can make you go faster!

Based on hints given by Rovio on their social media pages, this is the just the start of things to come for the Bad Piggies in 2015.  Are you excited for the new sandbox level?  Are you clamoring for more piggy action?  Do you have a sudden craving for eggs?  Add your squeals, oinks and thoughts in the comments below.

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Bad Piggies The Road To El Porkado Update Now Available

August 20, 2015, 8:34 am

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Oink! The Bad Piggies are going on a new adventure in The Road To El Porkado - Update now to v1.7.0 to get 15 new levels, new parts, ancient pigs, secret treasures and more ...

Bad Piggies Prepare for Colonization of Mars with Powered Descent Rocket

September 30, 2015, 9:10 am

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The Bad Piggies have heard the news! There is water on MARS! The race to porkonize the Red Planet is now in full swing. In this classified video they reveal their first prototype of a powered descent rocket. Will they succeed? Probably not.

Bad Piggies The Road To El Porkado Continues with a New Update!

October 20, 2015, 6:21 am

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Oink! The Road to El Porkado continues with the discovery of a the Giant Golden Pig statue! Bad Piggies received an Update v1.8.0 adding 15 new levels, 2 new Sandbox levels and more ...

Bad Piggies The Road To El Porkado Comes to an End with a New Update!

January 25, 2016, 10:11 am

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Oink! With the latest Bad Piggies update (v1.9.0) The Road to El Porkado comes to an end. The update includes the final 15 levels and one new sandbox!

Bad Piggies New Update Adds Custom Contraptions!

June 3, 2016, 8:35 am

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Oink! Bad Piggies received a Major Update! Unleash your Creativity with Custom Contraptions!

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Bad Piggies 2.2.0 Update Adds Cake Race and Cloud Sync via FB

December 1, 2016, 6:37 am

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Bad Piggies has received a new game mode called "Cake Race" in the 2.2.0 update. Also, you can now save your progress in the Cloud by connecting the game to Facebook. Update out now on iOS and Android.