Angry Birds Popularity Factors Study - Help Needed :)
  • Hello fellow Angry Birds fanatics!

    I'm currently writing my Master of Arts thesis about why is Angry Birds so popular and what makes it the perfect casual game. I need you to take a short anonymous survey verifying some of my findings :)

    The survey's address is: http://szort.witek.org/ab-survey

    I would really appreciate it if some of you could spare a few minutes and help me out. If you have some friends or relatives who also enjoy playing the game - their input would also be very welcome.

    If you have any doubts or questions - ask.

    Witek
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  • Slim and BL -- Have you checked this out? Is it legit. Should people (especially younger ones) be filling out survey?
  • Seems harmless. No personal information.
  • OK I filled it out. Hope it is really harmless. I've been hounded for too many years by super-paranoid (with good reason) IT people.
  • Done! @mvnla2 , the only questions you have to answer are 5-16.
  • Yeah the "potentialy sentitive" questions aren't mandatory :) The data is just for statistics.

    Thanks for the response so far! :)
  • One of the best things you could do for your thesis is to read ALL the comments / posts on this site, if you haven't already (including all the old posts in the forum -- could take days). Also, you should join the leaderboards, so you would get some first-hand experience of what it's really about. I'm not sure your questions really got to the heart of why this game is so popular : )
  • @mvnla2: Reading through forums was the original idea but I have deadlines to meet and have been asked to quantify the results. Also, English is not my primary language, I'm writing in Polish, so everything would have to be translated... There is a chapter about player communities though :)
  • Good luck. Your English is excellent! Wasn't suggesting that you quote ABN posts in your thesis, just read them for background, of course, that might be of limited use if you can't quote them... Shouldn't you be able to quote them in English?
  • Thank you for your submissions :) I currently have 17 recorded responses and I'm hoping there are more to come :)
  • I sent you some comments, which should show up in you inbox on this site (under your profile).
  • Is there a date after which answering this survey will no longer help?
  • Did the survey. A painless process.
  • Done and done! Hope it helps!
  • Thanks everyone :)

    @mvnla2: I'm not sure yet, but I will let you know in advance.
  • I was finally able to complete the survey as well.
  • Good luck. I hope you get enough meaningful data for your thesis. Would make for an interesting read, just not in Polish! Perhaps a member of AB Nest.com could hook you up with someone from Rovio? Just a thought. Aloha.
  • @surfcow: I don't think my thesis is THAT interesting :) It's just a rundown of some of the game's qualities that in my opinion are responsible for making the game such a hit. But I will let you all know what comes out of this survey.

    I tried contacting Rovio twice, asking for some statistical data about sales and stuff (the plan was to corelate updates to the game with sales numbers) but have been pushed to the PR departament and nothing came out of it.
  • Oooh and thank you for promoting this discussion, I was wondering where that surge in responses came from :) Now I know :)
  • Most welcome. Let me know when it's closed and we will close this as well.
  • Done...but would've love to have had a couple of open-ended questions to give opinions on.
  • Hi and thanks for completing the survey :) I thought it has been forgotten.
  • Have you been contacted by PFloyd (see forum called "school project on angry birds")? I suggested he / she contact you for help. PFloyd is doing a group project English paper on the popularity of AB. I would guess it is at the junior-high or high-school level. They may be too shy to contact you directly, so maybe you could initiate the contact? ABN has recently been changed so that you can't send a private message unless you are "friends." So you would need to ask BL or Slim to send message for you.
    How is your thesis going, BTW?
  • Hi mvlna2, I'll contact them and do my best to help, thank you for the heads-up.

    As for my thesis... well... I'm still working on it, although I stalled because I have so much other work. But I intend to wrap it up by the end of the month.
  • @heathen I tried sending you a PM but I guess that't not how it works around these parts... You can contact me at super at witek dot org if you want to elaborate :)

    @mvnla2 I gave them my e-mail so they can contact me directly :)
  • @Witek -- Just this week the site changed so you can only PM people who are your "friends;" this was done in response to a spam attach on members using PMs. The concept of "friends" is also fairly new; see Community on pull-down menu at top.
  • @Witek -- What do you mean by contact me "at super"?
  • he means "super" @witek.org. Just don't use the quotes. Anti spam technique to get an email out there. Slim does it a lot too.
  • I plead jet lag for stupidity : )
  • done.. Hope you can still use the data
  • Thank you all, I just hit 50 responses :) Keep 'em coming :)
  • Done. :) When is your thesis due? :)
  • Thanks :) I have time untill the end of this year but I plan to turn it in by the end of the month :)
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