When we first heard about Butterfly Garden I must say that I was a little less then enthused. But now after experiencing the joy that is Viva Pinata, this game has certainly gone up a few spots on my most wanted list. Thrills Killa has just posted an interview with one of the folks working on the game as well as a screen shot of the title.
While it's still early in development, their are a few tidbits in the interview, namely that were looking late '07/early '08, they are hoping for mid level pricing (read: 800 points) and that it is inspired by "Animal Crossing, Nintendogs, Pokemon, Viva Pinata.".
You can check out the whole interview here.
In their podcast this morning, VGM Daily had the first portion of there interview with Shayne Guiliano of Autonomous Productions. The first part didn't get into too much, but did reveal that he has be given permission to develop and release a game on both XBLA and Nintendo's Virtual Console. The game he is developing is titled "Butterfly Garden" and looks like it will be released on both consoles. It strikes me as odd, but I would have thought that Nintendo would have avoided having the same game on both as the XBLA version will have Achievement Points and HD graphics where as the Wii version will not. Since it sounds like the game is still in early development (and were talking about a very, very small team), don't expect this game to show up any time soon. You can check out the podcast here, and make sure to check back throughout the week as they publish more parts of the interview.