Rovio - the author of the strike Angry Birds video games - is releasing its initial new authorization given 2009.
Amazing Alex's opening will be keenly watched after the firm's progressing array racked up more than a billion downloads.
Players contingency prepare objects on shade to emanate a sequence greeting in that any square of the baffle has an outcome on other until the objective is achieved.
One researcher mentioned the definite might find it hard to repeat its formerly success.
Unlike Rovio's other games, Amazing Alex began its life outward the Finnish firm.
It was originally well known as Casey's Contraptions, a physics-based diversion in that players had to help the lead disposition giveaway his toys.
It was expelled in 2011 by Noel Llopis, a California-based eccentric diversion developer, and the Washington-headquartered games college of music Mystery Coconut.
It received certain reviews that compared the tasks entangled to the outlandish machines drawn by the cartoonist Heath Robinson and the ad-hoc inventions of the 1980s radio uncover MacGyver.
However, the pretension never became a strike and the developers sole their egghead skill rights to Rovio progressing this year, subsequent to that it was private from Apple's iOS store.
Rovio has given the graphics and gameplay a tweak and has right away re-released it on both the iOS and Android platforms.
The firm's Twitter feed fixed that versions for PCs, Macs and Windows Phone handsets would follow.
The company has attempted to produce fad is to let go by featuring a distinguished provoke in its Angry Birds Seasons diversion that it offering as a giveaway download to iPhone and iPad owners for a paltry time.
However, a mobile games researcher mentioned it was as well shortly to know if the pierce would pay off.
"It's hard to know if they can bring their assembly with them," mentioned Jack Kent from IHS Screen Digest.
"If you look at a company in the wider games business similar to Zynga, they have used core brands similar to CityVille to increase players to their next games and have had a few success in carrying out that.
"But on mobile it's not as coherent that Rovio will be able to do that, particularly from a diversion similar to Angry Birds that doesn't have the same amicable connectors - it's a unintentional diversion but you're not indispensably related around a wider amicable network."
Rovio's financial inform for 2011 suggested it generated 75.4m euros ($92.3m; 59.5m) from sales final year.
It mentioned about 30% of that total was derived from its own offshoot goods and licenses to third-parties for products inclusive toys, clothing and themed fool around parks.
Mr Kent mentioned Rovio's expertise in this area meant similar efforts were expected to follow Amazing Alex if it valid popular.
But Rovio is not only focusing its efforts on the new title.
It has told the gaming website IGN that it had teamed up with the publishing house Activision to let go its initial 3 Angry Birds titles as a bundled package is to Xbox 360, Playstation 3 and Nintendo 3DS after that this year.
It mentioned the versions for Sony and Microsoft's gadgets could be tranquil around the Move and Kinect suit sensors.
But they will face contest from other titles inclusive Wreckateer that moreover outline to underline a similar dynamic.
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