Maintaining AngryBirdsNest.com is definitely a team effort and without the support of the amazing Angry Birds community (read: you) none of this would be possible, so from all of us, “Thank you”. Also, a BIG thanks to Rovio for giving us permission to do what we do.
Bird Leader
I created AngryBirdsNest.com in the summer of 2010 as a way to give back to the Angry Birds community while helping myself conquer this amazingly addictive game. My then 3-year-old son and I played A LOT of Angry Birds and back then there really wasn’t an easy way to get help or share strategies. Having a background in web development and video games, I thought I’d approach Rovio and ask them if I could create a fan site. To my surprise, they agreed and even provided some of the very assets (artwork, etc.) you see today. I guess the rest is history. While I don’t respond to as many comments as I used to, I am still actively involved on the site on a daily basis.
Be sure to check out ABN on Twitter, Facebook, Google+, and YouTube! You can also Follow Me (personally) on Twitter
SweetP
Watch out Mad Max, SweetP is our resident road warrior! Born in Hawaii, she is the only person to have ever ridden a motorcycle non-stop all the way across the Pacific Ocean to California. When she finally hit land she was so exhausted that she just couldn’t go on, so this is where she has been ever since. Wait?! I think I forgot the part about the sharks. Oh well, moving on … When SweetP is not tearing up the road, or out on the links, she’s probably helping a fellow flinger on the Nest or attending to the daily Angry Birds Challenge. Like Mad Max before her, that’s just how she rolls! And we thank her for it.
Mighty Red
Silence falls over the stadium and the arena rumbles as Mighty Red enters. The respect has been earned and the crowd knows it. Few, if any, Nesters have played as many Angry Birds games as the MIGHTY — Mighty Red. He’s completed every objective, 3-starred every level, and mastered every rank. The diamond tiers can barely hold him. He’s a God among us. Yeah, as I said, the respect has been earned.
Bernersenn
You’re the man now dog! Hailing from the south of Netherlands, @bernersenn, is an adventurous spirit who is always looking for a challenge (Angry Birds or otherwise). As his name and avatar imply, he loves Bernese Mountain Dogs — which in Swiss-German translates to … wait for it … Bernersenn. In addition to being an avid flinger and Nester @bernersenn is also one of the nicest people you’ll ever meet. We are all lucky to have him as part of the team!
… and a special thanks to everyone else who contributes to the Nest on a regular basis! This is what a community is all about. Go TEAM!
Huge THANKS to our Past Admins
AMslimfordy
The man, the myth, the legend. In addition to being one of our main contributors, Slim is also the chief moderator. He single handily responds to hundreds of comments each week, helping thousands of Angry Birds players along the way. It doesn’t stop there though. He has superpowers! Shhhhh… One such power gives him super news-sleuthing ability. Another allows him to store vast amounts of Angry Birds data in his cerebral cortex. Yet another allows him to understand something called “number theory”. Yeah, who knew. I just don’t want to get on his bad side.
sal9
Sal comes to us from the world of game modding. Yes, he’s l33t, so be careful. Exactly how his background in modding translates into an amazing ability to fling our cute feather friends we may never know, but we’re not ones to complain. In addition to being a top flinger Sal is also a gifted graphic designer. If you haven’t already, definitely check out the awesome Angry Birds backgrounds he has been nice enough to share with the ABN community (yes, showering us with gifts can help you become a moderator). These are just two of Sal9’s nine talents. The other seven are: shaving, chewing gum, breaking bottles over his head, smiling, putting lots of straws together to make one really big straw, tic-tac-toe, and last, but not least, jogging backwards.
E-Star
If you need an honest answer that comes with a free smile E-Star (E*) is your gal. Permanently happy, and a gadget geek at heart, E-Star has taught herself how to play Angry Birds on two iPads simultaneously, all while teaching young children that pigs really are green. Seriously, who knew?! When she is not mentoring our future world leaders on the benefits of having an asterisk in their pseudonym, she can be found annihilating pigs in Angry Birds Seasons (of course capturing every second on HD video). While breaks are rare for E*, she does occasionally jump up, put her game face on, then run around her iPad while doing the ‘Vogeltjesdans’.
Kelani
Despite the Hawaiian name, @Kelani hails from the Appalachian Mountains of North Carolina. In addition to being a Master Flinger, Kelani is a jack of all trades who knows so much random trivia that people in The Bloated Pig simply call him, “Keloogle”. He’s also a musician / composer that plays the keyboard, guitar, trumpet, and vibraphone (Google it!). As a young child he thought to himself, “Why stop there?”, so he’s also a competitive chess player and has been an extra in a number of Hollywood blockbusters, including: Dawson’s Creek, Carrie II: The Rage and The Patriot. When Kelani isn’t laser focused on Angry Birds, hacking Linux, or building something with a rudimentary lathe, you’ll probably see him munching on Mentos. He’s so addicted that @e-star likes sending him surprise packages of varieties that are only available in the Netherlands. There’s something else I’ll have to Google!
FujiToast
You all know the name, but what you may not know is that FujiToast doesn’t like toast. Not one bit. All joking aside, FujiToast has been our go-to walkthrough creator for almost a year now. He’s probably helped more people pass Angry Birds levels than anyone else. Inadvertently, he’s probably saved countless lives and marriages by reducing stress and the time people sit in front of their iPhone (sorry Android users). Not only does FujiToast create awesome walkthroughs, but he also writes articles, creates taffy on the weekends, and routinely saves baby seals from poachers.
Thanks for an amazing website!
Hats off to you all guys :)
Thank You for this website again.
Thanks for your wonderful backgrounds and thank youfor the website! I might have only one full chapter with 3 stars if I did not know about this place
Thank you for this wonderful website and community
Thanks ABNCrew for making AB more than just another game!..
Best angry birds web page ever… Awsome work, you guys. Keep it up! :-D
Awesome work guys.
How do you capture the walkthroughs??
Thanks for the behind the scenes peek. You guys do a great job!
Thanks for the brief intro to the ABN crew! I love being part of the nest, chirping away with my fellow crazy birders. The community adds so much more enjoyment to the game!!,
Thank-you to a great fan site.
Much appreciated from the other side of the globe, Singapore
Really COOL!!! Thanks for your help and fast response!! I must go and play!!
How do you post a pic? How do you find your rank for badges? I come to the site daily (sometimes more than that), it looks like I’m loged in.
You could post your desired picture in a image-sharing site, then link it here.
Mouse over your profile pic. to see the number of points you have. You’re actually 5 points away from being Deputized. Congrats!
Thanks for the help!!!! Have a great day. :)
Thanks again for your help. I needed to log out & login before I received my 5 points.
You’ll also find more info about rankings and points here => Badges and Ranking
THE BEST FAN SITE ON THE INTER WEB
What did the drowning number theorist say?
log log log log log
Very nice, haha. The only mathematical joke I really know is:
Yo mama’s so fat, she contradicts Whitney’s Embedding Theorem.
I don’t get it… haha
A human being is a 2-dimensional (Hausdorff, second-countable) manifold. Whitney therefore says a human being can be smoothly embedded in 4-dimensional space.
The joke is that “yo mama” would be so large that she could not be smoothly embedded into 4-space. HA, burned
Slim, how ’bout this one:
Yo mama so fat, she’s got more chins then a Hong Kong phone book. lol.
Have you guys ever heard of the “find x” joke? http://i44.tinypic.com/a2f7zq.jpg
*SMH* Yeah, I’ve seen that a few times.
I prefer the proof that 1=2: Confuse your parents
The ‘1=2’ joke is actually wrong because cancelling x-x on both sides actually is (x+x)(x-x)/(x-x) which is (x+x)(x-x)/0 which is undefined. This leads to 1=2. Various algebraic identities can also be used to prove 1=3, 2=4, 1=6 etc.
Yes, I know that. But most people forget that you aren’t allowed to divide by 0 and claim that “proof” to be true.
I think y’all need to work on some new jokes. :-)
My g/f has Rio on PC, she has completed first four main stages and we had an internet outage last night, then when we got internet back, all the main stages are locked except the first one with each one having to be completed but it shows 3 stars already. We have tried reinstalling the game a few times already with our key and the same result. Is there another place to download Rio or how do we fix this issue. We all know that it is time consuming to just get that far, please help!!
I need a little more information from you before I can properly help.
1) Where did you download the app from?
2) So all levels are locked (except 1-1), but the pre-existing score is still there?
This is what we got to d/l the game in our email: You can download the game from: {direct link}. Please follow the installation instructions here http://shop.angrybirds.com/pages/pc-installation-guide.
Once installed, click “Activate Full Version” button, and enter the activation key into the pop-up dialog. Note that the key is case sensitive.
If you have any questions, please see Frequently Asked Questions here http://shop.angrybirds.com/pages/pc-faq.
Sorry, not 1-1, the main stages menu at the beginning, the other ones are locked even though smugglers den is complete. We did purchase the game and have the key in our email.
OK, so you got your app from download.angrybirds.com and you have your activation key. That’s a good start. Just so we don’t spam over this page, I’m gonna write you an email and we can communicate from there. I have a few other questions before we can work towards an actual resolution.
This site and you guys are the VERY BEST! Thanks for all the fabulous tips and help you have provides all of us crazies.
Without this website, I wouldn’t be so great at angry birds! Thanks so much!
Welcome! Enjoy, everyone is very helpful! :)
this website is awesome! keep up the great work!
This site is amazing! Without you guys i would had a lot of trouble with Go Green, Get Lucky. Those Irish pigs are a lot tougher then the normal ones! (Sorry if i offend anyone.)
I am like FugiToast, I am going to start making computer products and the small business is going to be called banana even though aim allergic to bananas.
I like this site just how I like Angry Birds.Big THANKS to Bird Leader end to everyone who help all the fans.
Does Fujitoast really save baby seals?(because i know everything about slim and BL are true)
I’m guessing not.
Whatever is written here is true! Even I didnt believe it at first ;)
This side is wery nice. Thanks for the great side. :)
Thanks for the site and all the work you’ve all put into it. When I first started playing I googled for help/info but didn’t find this site or anything useful! As I kept playing, I wanted some information about the Golden Eggs so did another search but this time entered “Angry Birds Golden Eggs” and fortunately this site came up as the first entry.
I don’t know if you know this but if you just google “Angry Birds”, this site doesn’t come up until the 4th page! I don’t know about everyone else but I rarely look at more than 2 pages when searching for anything.
Since you are sanctioned by Rovio, couldn’t you get them to link you as a helpful site etc.on their webpage? The only thing they have at present is a note to say look at YouTube. This site is a lot more helpful than YouTube.
No, that’s Google’s search algorithm. Very unfortunate that we’re on the 4th page, but we are pretty high if you add basically any word to “Angry Birds”.
Enjoy the site :)
If I search AMslimfordy, on google, I gt this site. Just did it to get here to post what I was gonna say.
I found this interesting so I tried it.
The Nest came up on the third Google page, so you all are getting some traction ;-)
You guys really help. I don’t know what to do about AB whiteout you. I really want to tip one of you in any way you ask.
You guys are AWESOME!!! I’m so glad I found this site. It has helped me countless times. Thank you for taking valuable time out of your busy day to keep this up and running.
You all know how much I love this site…thanks! And thanks for the history above…its pretty cool to know how it all began…fuji doesnt even like cinnamon toast? Anyway great to know a few fun facts about Founding Feathers:)
Temporary avatar change. I feel it is necessary. That was exhausting. Over 10 GB worth of video used to finally get the feather in Danger Zone 5.
Videos will be online tomorrow.
And who knows how many eagles… :) Finished that one just now… phew!
It’s April 10. Then I was commenting. Why it always say:
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hi!!
what do you use to record the walkthrough videos?
please respond ASAP!
thanks a ton!
:D
On iOS, video capture requires a jailbroken device.
what about pc?
There are hundreds of recorders for PC.
One tip, from personal experience, I wouldn’t recommend CamStudio (at least the free version). I use it, but need an extra piece of software to convert the files. I’m thinking about changing! :)
Oh boy do I second that one. CamStudio is Hulk-ish, and not in the awesome-green-unstopable-force kinda way, but in the bulky, slow, kills everything it touches sort of way.
I’m using HyperCam right now. It’s a bit minimalistic, but it’s OK.
unrelated.
how come some users’ @ username is different than their username (without the @)
Not quite right. @ is precisely the person’s username. The “other name” that normally appears is the person’s nickname.
Members are not required to have their username and nickname match, though it is preferred for simplicity.
I use a couple things to get recorded video in 720p60. First I use an HDMI cable to connect that to a video conversion box and that goes into another box with a flash drive, which I then transfer onto my computer, edit it, resize/correct aspect ratio, then compress it and voilá!