Angry Birds Case Study

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Register to read the introduction… On Apple devices Angry Birds lite has so far been downloaded more than 20 million times from the app store and the paid version more than 7 million times – making it the most purchased iPhone app of all time. On the iPad alone more than 200,000 people have already downloaded the paid for version of the app. Because of the success of Angry Birds on the screen, the franchise is now creeping into other markets. For example, more than two million cuddly toy versions of the now infamous birds have now been sold.

Game Maker Studio
GameMaker:Studio is designed to be a one-stop tool for single and small teams of game developers. GameMaker includes all the tools that you are used to and would expect : sprite editor, timelines, paths, an extensive room editor and it's own programming language, GML.
Export Modules GameMaker:Studio offers cross platform porting of your games and projects. The base version of GameMaker:Studio allows you to export to Windows and MacOS with add-on modules available for Html5, iOS, and Android with more platforms being made available in the future.

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