2009-04-22

Viva Piñata FTW! Or Lets talk again about some interesting Stuff...

Do you know Viva Piñata?

It's a game from 2006 for the xbox 360. You may think that is just a game for kids. But i take a deeper look at the game design of this game and found a interesting version of startopia / sim city / place another civilazation simulation here with little minigames for some more fun...

Ignore the dancing pinatas around this game and look at the very first quest in this game... You got a little piece of land and have to plow it. Then plant some grass. Now look whats happen on your land... There are the first pinatas that live at your place.

You create a place for your new civilization... Seems like a older post from us called "The people in my village" where we exactly talked about stuff like this.


When you have the first pinatas in your garden you can build some houses for them so they can "make" some offsprings. Create an enviroment to get more people in your town. The "making-process" for these new pinata kids is very cool. It is a minigame where the male pinata have to pass a obstacle course to get to the female pinata.

At the end, except of the minigames for making love, this "Create-an-enviroment-to-get more-people-in-your-town" game is a very nice example for this genre. I think its time for a startopia based browsergame...