Angry Birds Volcano (aka Angry Birds Tyrkisk Peber) is a co-marketing promotion with Rovio Mobile and Fazer Confectionery Ltd. In Finland. The promotion involves an exclusive, themed mini-game version of Angry Birds, similar to Angry Birds Vuela Tazos and Angry Birds in The Hunt For The Golden Pistachio where players require codes from product purchases to play the game. Volcano was the first promotion of this kind.
- The Website for the promotion is located at:
- The homepage for Fazer with links to the game are at:
- The game is also linked in the Angry Birds Chrome game at:
The site contains a brief description of the promotion in English:
Angry Birds are having an adventure in the fiery Tyrkisk Peber Volcano world. Search for the secret codes to open the hidden levels from Tyrkisk Peber Volcano package (EAN code), Fazer and Angry Birds Facebook pages and on YouTube with the keyword Volcano.
Game
Codes to unlock the last three levels:
- Level 4 - 532337-191967
- Level 5 - 229652-722979
- Level 6 - 6416453036352
Levels
- Level 1 - 1
- Level 2 - 2
- Level 3 - 3
- Level 4 - 4
- Level 5 - 5
- Level 6 - 6
Reception
The game promotion won an award by Sub TV for “Most Interesting New Competition.”
40,000 people have played the game and the video received over 3.5 million views on Youtube.com as of February 7, 2012.[1]
Tyrkisk Peber
Tyrkisk Peber is Danish for "Turkish Pepper” and is a strong liquorice and pepper candy, made by the Finnish company Fazer. It was originally invented by Per Fjelsten of the Danish company Perelly in 1976. The company was later obtained by Fazer.[2]
The game site contains a brief description of the Volcano candy, translated here from Finnish to English by Google Translate:
TURKISH PEPPER VOLCANO
Completely new type of soft candy, Turkish Pepper Volcano contains taste buds burning lava. The pouch has two challenging flavors: spicy soft licorice (brown) and a sharp burning liquorice (black). The three-flame of the product. Do you dare to try? Turkish Pepper is anything but tame and reserved ....
Commercial
An animated commercial for the promotion was released and can be seen here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DmaBxp_-nHk
Trivia
- The Boomerang Bird, Orange Bird, Pink Bird, Big Brother Bird, and King Pig don't appear in the game.
- This game uses sprites from the Angry Birds Chrome.
- The game features three new object types:
- The TPV Explosive
- The TPV Stone
- The Fazer Box.
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