MEDIA CONVERGENCE: Real Life Angry Birds?

I found a really interesting story after Yuwei mentioned 'real life' Angry Birds in one of our lectures.This article talks about a 12 year old boy who loved the very popular game 'Angry Birds' that much that he decided to try and create a real life version of the game in his Fathers field.

The picture below is of the young boy who has created his own real life version of the game. This is an example of media convergence, as the game which is made for iPhone and Android phones has been turned into a real life physical game for the Angry Birds Fanatic. It could also be described as 'Hyper Reality' as the boy loved the game on his iPod, that he wanted to be able to love it in real life aswell.

(http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/3895910/Lads-real-life-Angry-Birds.html)

(http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/video/virals/3895433/Schoolboys-real-life-Angry-Birds.html)

The link above takes you to a video about the young boy and his quest to make his real life version of the game.

By Abigail Weston