HOLY SH!T it finally happened! Merry Christmas BlackBerry PlayBook owners! The folks from Rovio have released THREE Angry Birds titles for the BlackBerry PlayBook, which are all now available in App World.
You can take your pick of the original Angry Birds, Angry Birds Seasons and Angry Birds Rio. The cost on each one is $4.99, and I'm guessing all three will soon be topping the best sellers list in App World. If you want to take a closer look before you buy, be sure to check out our Angry Birds for BlackBerry Review.
This will definitely help out PB's image - Just look how all Android Tablets always show Angry Birds on their promos and friends always ask me if I have it on my PB...
Just right-click and choose SAVE AS... for the above link, to download the SWF file to your computer (or to your Playbook). You may have to make a notepad document and type in the following (copy and paste this in):
You have to use angle brackets (not round) for HTML, but I couldn't post it. Therefore, for the above code, replace all open round brackets "(" with open angle brackets "<" and replace all close round brackets ")" with closed angle brackets ">".
Then save the notepad document and rename it to HTML extension so you can load it up in your computer's web browser, or load it up on your playbook. Then you have to RIGHT CLICK on the "Download me" which will let you save the SWF file (otherwise it just loads if you click it).
Once it downloads the SWF, copy it to your downloads folder on your playbook (if doing it from computer). If on Playbook, it will download directly to downloads. Then to load it from your downloads folder, go into your Playbook Browser and use the following web address, instead of "http://something", to navigate the local files:
Then click on "accounts", then "1000", then "shared", then "downloads", then "angry-birds-rio.swf". Alternatively, just type the following in the address bar:
Once loaded, you can create a shortcut to your Icon screen so you can launch the game. Bring up your playbook browser menu and click on the WHITE STAR with the "GREEN +" and choose "Add to Home Screen" and name it Angry Birds Rio. Now you will have another icon app with Angry Birds Rio!
Enjoy!!! By the way, this method works for MOST Flash-based games. Pretty much anything on http://www.myhappygames.com/ can be downloaded. Just open the HTML source page for your game and look for the SWF file link that is embedded, and create a web page with a simple link to it that lets you right click and "save as..." to download the SWF file without having it load in your browser. Then you just copy it over to your playbook and play away!
I used the "Playbook Tools" by HATAX, which you download from that page. Then you just edit your BAT file as it says, after going into developer mode on your playbook.
I also downloaded a bunch of other apps and installed them using this method. It works beautifully!!! There are a bunch of BAR files you can install here:
Also if RIM can show that people will pay higher prices for stuff on the playbook, then more developers will be interested in supporting the platform. I support $5 games.
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