Haunted Hogs

Haunted Hogs
Overview
Game
Release date	October 23, 2012
Statistics
Episode number	14
Number of levels	30
New features	Ghost Bricks Scarecrow Pigs
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Haunted Hogs is the fourteenth episode of Angry Birds Seasons, and is the third Halloween-themed episode and the fifth episode of the Season 2012 package. It was released on October 23, 2012, for iOS and PC. It marks the second birthday/anniversary of Angry Birds Seasons. It was first revealed on the Game Center leaderboards and was reported by AngryBirdsNest on October 18, 2012.

This is the third Halloween based episode in Seasons in three consecutive years and is also first in the series overall to have entirely new pig variants; Scarecrow Pigs and Frankenstein Pigs.

The jack-o'-lanterns (3000 points each) from Trick or Treat and the Exploding black Jack-o'-lanterns from Ham'o'ween return in this episode. This is the first Halloween episode not to feature the Ghost Pig. However, when the V 3.2.0 update was released, the ghost pig can be seen standing still like the other pigs instead of flying (Like in Ham 'O' Ween or Trick or Treat) in Haunted Hogs's new Mighty Eagle bonus level, which is one of the four new bonus levels for Haunted Hogs (and Winter Wonderham) that can be unlocked by collecting 10 feathers.

Unlike other episodes, objects do not fly by in the background for the title screen. In addition, a beaten-up Scarecrow Pig appears when a level is failed, unlike previous episodes that have a normal pig when failing a level. This happens again in Winter Wonderham, which shows a normal pig eating a candy cane when failing a level. It also happens in Abra-Ca-Bacon which shows Foreman Pig wearing a top hat, a red bow tie, and a wand.

It is also one of the two episodes to include four new levels upon the addition of power-ups in Angry Birds Seasons, the other being Winter Wonderham. There are 3 levels that can be unlocked by collecting a certain number of stars, plus 1 level for collecting 10 feathers by using the Mighty Eagle. Interestingly, this feature can also be used in Angry Birds Rio, which was the first Angry Birds Game that this feature came to be.

With this update, Seasons has more levels than in Angry Birds Classic, not counting the King Pig levels.

Storyline

The following is from The World of Angry Birds Official Guide, as told by the Mighty Eagle:

P-HAM-TON MANOR
  It was Red 's worst nightmare. As Ham'o'ween came around again, King Pig swept in and spirited the eggs away to a haunted house in a spooky otherworldly realm. Could the Flock get them back before they fell foul of things that go oink in the night?

New Features

• Ghost Bricks that allow birds to go inside them. They can hardly be destroyed.
• New Scarecrow variations of the pigs.
• New costumes and items.

Trivia

• The music resembles The Addams Family theme song.
• Before the episode colors were removed upon the release of Arctic Eggspedition, the representative color used in Haunted Hogs is purple, but it was blue on iPad and became unused before the update
• The music for the Trick or Treat theme is in C minor.
• Haunted Hogs could be using a reference to the term "Haunted House" since the level takes place in a haunted house.
• This is the third Angry Birds episode to take place indoors, the first and second being Smuggler's Den and Smuggler's Plane from Angry Birds Rio.
• On the loading screen, the number 13 is printed on the door, which is often considered an unlucky number. The environment, including the trees with no leaves, are similar to, if not the same of the first Halloween episode, Trick or Treat, implying that the haunted house may be located within the forest depicted in that episode. In addition, there is a pig dressed as Chuck, with yellow paint and crudely made feathers, eyes and a beak, but this pig does not appear in-game, similar to the Octopus Pig seen in the loading screen for Piglantis.
• Both Haunted Hogs and the Angry Birds Friends Halloween Tournament 2012 have the same theme song.
• Chronicler Pig makes a cameo in a painting featured in the first level.
  • Prisoner Pig also makes a cameo in a panting.
• The bat that is unlocked after getting 3 stars is available as a personalization sticker on The Mighty League in Angry Birds Classic.
• An error in the update sometimes causes the pictures on the wall's eye(s) to remain shut and stop blinking.
• This is the first time that haunted parody paintings appear, the second is Angry Birds Friends's Rise of The Werepigs Tournament.
  • The painting of the skinny pig with arms is a reference to the painting The Scream by Edvard Munch.
  • The painting of the pig with a body, [[[Wikipedia:tunic|tunic]] and hair is a reference to the restoration of the painting of Ecce homo by Elías García Martínez.
• In the Wii U version of Angry Birds Trilogy, this episode and Ham'o'ween both reuse the ambience from Trick or Treat.
• Twelve bell chimes can be heard in the ambience, indicating that it is midnight. 
• A remix of Haunted Hogs' theme is heard in Angry Birds Reloaded in a Halloween update.

Gallery

Loading screen

PC

iOS and Android

Bottom of the level select menu

App icon

End photo

Associated logo

Sprite sheet of new elements introduced in the episode

Scarecrow Pig sprites

Ghost Blocks, one with a pig inside

Title screen background

Level environment

Unused episode icon in the iPad version

Old Episode Icon of Haunted Hogs (Android and iOS)

The Sheet Ghost unlocked after completing the episode

The Sheet Ghost unlocked after attaining every star the episode

See also

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