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Wii Warm Up: Wii Ware progress report
Even though no one outside of Japan knows when to expect Wii Ware, the game service has had quite a few interesting titles announced for it. But, what game or games are you most excited about?Let's give it a little rundown, shall we? We have a pretty looking spin-off from Square-Enix, a few possible adventure titles, a platformer, some puzzle games (including a beloved classic), a unique butterfly simulation, something currently called Project Bang! -- oh, and then there's the one with the Pokemon. We haven't even mentioned the slew of others that came with Wii Ware's original announcement, and then there may even be some that we've forgotten.We know you have to be at least a little bit excited for Wii Ware. So, tell us -- which games most strike your fancy?
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?
Butterflies flutter onto Wii Ware
Wii Ware is shaping up to have quite a few interesting titles. Aside from Square-Enix's Young King game and the classic Dr. Mario, some lesser known developers look to be making some great things. For example, there's Eternity's Child and Bruiser and Scratch, among others. Now we can even add Butterfly Garden to the mix.From the Gamertag Radio sneak preview (embedded above), we've gathered that Butterfly Garden is not only going to be a pretty game, but also unique. We like the use of scientific details, like the Chaos Theory and spreading different butterfly genes. The game is also coming to XBLA, though, so we wonder if the Wii version will have motion controls or a cheaper price tag to make it the more desirable option. Autonomous is aiming to have the game finished by spring 2008 2009, which will hopefully be well after the release of Wii Ware (whenever that may be).[Thanks, Godfree!]
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.
