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tomason
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I’m 46 years old and run a business. I’ve had a lot of life experiences (three serious careers, been all over the world, etc.) and everywhere you will go, the attitude about anything brightly colored and particularly animated items are always chucked in the bin of childish material. Rovio has furthered this child-related image with the endless marketing (which is a great $ idea) and with the animated cartoons, all of which build the brand and make money like mad while giving the uninitiated an unfortunate false impression of the game itself.

Ostensibly, Angry Birds is a pass-the-time game created with nothing too massive for the adult mind to donate significant portions of time nor thought… initially. What the designers actually produced (from my point of view and in my opinion) is an ingenious game that employs all laws of probability and of physics (as well as a provision for the “luck” factor). Those are pretty difficult concepts to get right from a design and development standpoint. This is why it is so appealing as a game for intelligent adults… IT’S COMPLEX.

So the short answer to the “is it childish” question from me would be as follows:
The game is playable and enjoyable for the wisest of all ages, but the cartoons are for the kids.

Adults that don’t like the game and claim it to be unpleasant will also be confounded by the physical world and how things move around in general. So, like a chimp, instead of enjoying it – they will get mad at it , screech at it, and potentially throw some excrement at it but never ever play it again and then dismiss it as “childish”. Sour grapes!