Somewhere in the corner of my rusty old hard disk there lay a song “99 Red Balloons” that always cheered me up through years of depression from having strived my maximum utmost to steal eggs and failing at every turn! For years on end! What’s a pig gotta do to get some fresh omelette these days?
Porcine reality aside, that song “99 Red Balloons” definitely is a good match for this weekend’s Official Bad Piggies challenge to build the pigs some Hot Air Balloons!
Bad Piggies Official Weekend Challenge 1 June 2014 – Hot Air Balloons
There have already been Angry Birds hot air balloons floating around in the tranquil skies of Earth, but a pig balloon? That’s got to be new.
Without further ado, check out the following video to see what we made for the Weekend Challenge. You may then check out the rather boring (as usual!) writeup below to see the self enforced ‘construction guidelines’ that Pigineering used for this weekend’s build.
Pigineering Construction Guidelines:
For the purpose of this exercise, care was taken to keep the contraption as simple and slow as possible in the interest of realism. It’s really easy to construct some sort of high performance dirigible-aircraft hybrid in the game so some discipline was warranted.
For controllability purposes, we felt the vehicle should have a slight negative buoyancy so that thrust from a single lift fan or bellows is sufficient to maintain cruise flight. Likewise, to impart some sort of forward motion to the balloon in lieu of actual wind, some low-powered propulsion was utilized.
Finally, due to the limitations on component design, some creative liberties were taken in a fashion appropriate to the size of the various vehicles.
The sailing’s smooth as silk and the pigs are sleeping on the flight!
We hope you enjoyed this short report on the Hot Air Balloons Weekend Challenge and hope to see you participate in the community contests on Twitter and Facebook soon!