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Video: Butterfly Garden fly, fly away
Gamertag Radio received the latest scoop on Autonomous Productions' fluttery XBLA release Butterfly Garden and it's fluttering along just "fine". After inspecting what Butterfly Garden has to offer, we're confident in saying that the game's graphics look a lot better since the last time we saw it, but come on ... who are we kidding? Butterfly Garden looks to be a lesser evolved Viva Pinata clone minus the candy bits and injected with beautiful butterfly porn. Hopefully we're wrong about our harsh comments, but it's sort of hard to get excited about a game whose biggest draw is a gold butterfly. What's so damn special about golden butterflies anyway?
Early Butterfly Garden screens have us curious
The way we see it, the important thing about these Butterfly Garden screenshots is not their graphical fidelity. There's still plenty of time in the development cycle for this 2008 Xbox Live Arcade title, being made through XNA. We care more about what these screens represent, which, at this point, seems to be a really unusual game.If you're as interested as we are, you'll want to check this interview with Shayne Guiliano, of Autonomous Productions. Rather than raising an army of butterflies to save your dying world or forming a butterfly crime ring it appears that Butterfly Garden has you raising butterflies ... to raise butterflies. Wait, fun for fun's sake? Color us intrigued.
First Butterfly Garden development screens
The Xbox Domain received a few exclusive screenshots from next year's release of XBLA game Butterfly Garden and things are looking a little rough around the edges. Though, to be fair, the two exclusive Butterfly Garden screenshots come from one of the first XNA game builds and studio director Shayne Guiliano promises the game will look a lot better by the end of the Summer for its soft release. And let's hope so, because this butterfly based open ended game needs a new coat of paint to satisfy our shallow "visuals matter" mindset.
Butterfly Garden soft releasing this Fall
Butterfly Garden, the game where you mate, discover, and trade butterflies in a relaxing social atmosphere, will be making a soft release later this Fall. The Xbox Domain caught up with developer Autonomous Productions and learned that a stripped down version of Butterfly Garden will be entered into Microsoft's Dream Build Play XNA contest considered its "soft release". This soft release version will not include everything the game has to offer, but will be a test ground for visual water effects, controls, and to see what the overall reaction to the concept is like. Autonomous Productions also mentioned that Butterfly Garden should be ready to go Spring of 2008 for release on the XBLA. Butterflies never got us so excited.
Biggest thing to hit XBLA: butterflies?
Take a gander at the image above. No, it's not a shot from the Discovery Channel, it's a new game -- Butterfly Garden -- coming to Xbox Live Arcade. We've certainly seen a jump in the visual fidelity of Arcade titles as of late, but this is just downright pretty. Sure, RoboBlitz has all the right curves in all the right places, but it distinctly lacks flora and fauna of any kind. Mike from the Xbox Domain had a chance to sit down with the developers of Butterfly Garden, Autonomous Productions. The object of Butterfly Garden is not dissimilar to Viva Piñata, in that you want to breed and discover new species of butterfly. The beautiful environments -- much like RoboBlitz -- are all procedurally generated. Autonomous Productions hopes to separate Butterfly Garden from the XBLA crowd by introducing social, non-competitive gameplay to the service. Players will be able to visit each others' islands, trade genes (we're guessing you use these to create new species), or just fly around, enjoying the scenery. Granted, being a butterfly doesn't rate as high on our list as, say, being a badass soldier with a chainsaw on his gun, but we have admit we're intrigued. Unfortunately, all the butterfly dreamers out there will have to wait: the game isn't expected before late 2007.
