Yesterday, Rovio announced the 1 billion downloads milestone of its immensely popular Angry Birds. They released an animated video to celebrate that. The interesting is a familiar-looking boy shows up in the end of the video playing the phenomenal physics-based puzzler. It was soon be recognized that the boy is right the Casey from Casey’s Contraptions. And today, Rovio confirmed that it has indeed acquired the rights to Casey’s Contraptions in hopes of making the game its first non-Angry Birds title.

A mildly successful iPad game released a year ago by co-developers Snappy Touch and Mystery Coconut, Casey’s Contraptions presents a modern take on the classic video game series The Incredible Machine. Casey’s Contraptions challenges players, with the young Casey as their guide, to assemble Rube Goldberg devices from everyday objects in order to arrive at simple goals.

“The gameplay is a perfect fit in our arsenal with its approachable, fun, and highly addictive take on the physics puzzler genre,” said Rovio’s VP of franchise development Ville Heijari in an interview with Gamasutra. “We are currently reworking the title to enhance it, and getting ready to reintroduce it in a true ‘expect the unexpected’ Rovio style launch to an even larger audience.”

To that end, Casey’s Contraptions has been pulled from the App Store. But you may not have to wait too long to witness the return of Casey, who appears to have grown up a bit. That’s because the game is already set to be relaunched by Rovio this summer. Let’s just hope its journey to the App Store won’t be as complicated as one of Casey’s contraptions.

via appadvice