I reviewed the app Angry Birds AR: Isle of Pigs. I had a positive experience with the app as someone who grew up playing the angry birds game on my phone. This post will explain how the game works and bring up positive features and areas of improvement for the app.
To setup the game, the user tracks a flat space from a 45 degree angle, upon which the target structures for the levels will appear. I like that a green textile pattern of pig noses appears with this. although I had some issues with the app tracking items that weren’t flat, I thought this was successful.
I noticed some hickups in functionality for the app.
At some points, the app would incorrectly read angled surfaces as horizontal. From my subjective perspective, I also thought that instead of rendering some navigation elements in 3D, the app should have just made those a pop up menu.
Although I thought some of the features of the app could be improved, for me the app successfully offers fans of Angry Birds a 3D game with the same visual style and premise. The AR technology of the game worked smoothly and I could see myself playing this again.