{"id":1115,"date":"2012-05-11T18:30:23","date_gmt":"2012-05-11T23:30:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/macgaming.net\/?p=1115"},"modified":"2012-05-11T18:30:23","modified_gmt":"2012-05-11T23:30:23","slug":"rovios-angry-birds-follow-up-amazing-alex","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/macgaming.net\/2012\/05\/11\/rovios-angry-birds-follow-up-amazing-alex\/","title":{"rendered":"Rovio&#8217;s Angry Birds Follow-Up &#8211; Amazing Alex"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The follow-up to Rovio&#8217;s Angry Birds has been announced, via Finnish website Yle.  It&#8217;s called &#8220;Amazing Alex&#8221;, and it&#8217;s based on the Casey&#8217;s Contraptions games, which Rovio recently purchased, and will be out in two months.  Like Angry Birds, it&#8217;ll be a puzzle\/strategy game, and like Angry Birds, there will probably be a Mac OS X version of Amazing Alex.<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\nThe CEO of Rovio acknowledges the pressure: &#8220;<em>The quality pressure is high. We want to maintain the high standard Angry Birds fans have come to enjoy<\/em>.&#8221;  He also maintains that it will be educational, and based on building contraptions.<\/p>\n<p>Below you can see the original game\/IP (intellectual property) that Amazing Alex will be based upon &#8211; Casey&#8217;s Contraptions:<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"590\" height=\"330\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/JlqNa9mEqNE\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The App has since been removed from the iTunes App Store, and the original Casey&#8217;s Contraptions Website now redirects to <a href=\"http:\/\/teaser.amazingalex.com\/\" title=\"Amazing Alex Teaser\">Teaser.AmazingAlex.com<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/macgaming.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/Amazing-Alex-Coming-Soon.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Amazing Alex - Coming Soon\" width=\"590\" height=\"475\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1125\" srcset=\"https:\/\/macgaming.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/Amazing-Alex-Coming-Soon.jpg 590w, https:\/\/macgaming.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/Amazing-Alex-Coming-Soon-170x136.jpg 170w, https:\/\/macgaming.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/Amazing-Alex-Coming-Soon-372x300.jpg 372w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 590px) 100vw, 590px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/yle.fi\/uutiset\/new_amazing_alex_game_chases_angry_birds\/6091544\" title=\"Yle.fi - Amazing Alex\">game informer<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The follow-up to Rovio&#8217;s Angry Birds has been announced, via Finnish website Yle. It&#8217;s called &#8220;Amazing Alex&#8221;, and it&#8217;s based &#8230; <\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more-container\"><a title=\"Rovio&#8217;s Angry Birds Follow-Up &#8211; Amazing Alex\" class=\"read-more button\" href=\"https:\/\/macgaming.net\/2012\/05\/11\/rovios-angry-birds-follow-up-amazing-alex\/#more-1115\" aria-label=\"Read more about Rovio&#8217;s Angry Birds Follow-Up &#8211; Amazing Alex\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1121,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,66,10],"tags":[126,45,46],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/macgaming.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1115"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/macgaming.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/macgaming.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/macgaming.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/macgaming.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1115"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/macgaming.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1115\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/macgaming.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1121"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/macgaming.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1115"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/macgaming.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1115"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/macgaming.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1115"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}