In order to celebrate the Chinese mid-autumn festival, Angry Birds released their seventh game in the Seasons series, Mooncake Festival. Released in September 2011, the game showed more promise than previous updates simply because it came with additional levels when compared to Seasons Greedings, Hogs and Kisses, Go Green Get Lucky, Easter Eggs and Summer Pignic.

Game Developments

As mentioned, the main change was that against the majority of other season games (you can find links to play the seasons packs online @ chrome birds), Mooncake Festival had double the amount of levels. This game had 30 levels and three additional ones that could be unlocked by liking the game on Facebook.

As with all the Season games, Mooncake Festival changed its background and the music as well in order to make it more oriental. This meant that there was now a rather relaxing background with slow passing clouds through rolling hills. Furthermore, the music was given an oriental twist. In addition, the objects that you had to overcome and the items used as defence by the green pigs had changed. These pigs now held paper fans and wore straw hats, which both acted as a defence.

As the first country-specific game in Seasons, Angry Birds decided to change the Golden Eggs to Golden Moon cakes. These Golden Mooncakes serve the same purpose as the Golden Eggs in previous games, which means that as well as the 33 levels, there are eight pieces of Mooncake, which when collected unlock another bonus level.

The addition of Mooncake Festival further increased the popularity of the series all across the world. The reception of the game was mostly positive as players liked the structure of the majority of the levels, which clearly showed that developers had put some level of thought into producing the new characteristics for this game.