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Markus Tuppurainen

Markus Tuppurainen

Markus Tuppurainen was a lead designer at Rovio Inc, a company known for creating video games like Flatout, Flatout 2,Bad piggies and more.He

was born and raised in Finland.He went

to the EVTEK Institute of Art and Design and got a bachelor's degree on Game and Graphic Design.He then later

got a job at Rovio as a lead designer and created games like Flatout, Flatout 2, Bad Piggies and the most popular Angry Birds series.He came up with

Angry Birds a little after Flatout 2 got released. The game got half

finish before the team decided to scrap the project because they thought the game was too bad for release. A few months after

Flatout 2's release the game was getting bad reviews by critics and was selling very poorly that the company was not making any profit out of the game and the company was also very close to bankruptcy. The company needed some

ways to recover so they decided to complete Angry Birds and released the half finished version as a free version and it got millions of downloads so they decided to release the full version for one dollar on the app store and in minutes it was the number one paid app and it earned the company 200 million dollars in 2012.

Months after Angry Birds' release the company released Bad Piggies and Angry Birds seasons.After

those games were released Markus decided to part ways with rovio and founded his own company Eyewear Game which make computer games, mobile games, even console games. [undefined]

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