Flutter™: Butterfly Sanctuary, a mobile game from DeNA Co., Ltd. and Runaway™ that takes players deep into a realistic rainforest environment to raise and collect butterflies from all over the world, is now available for iPhone, iPad and iPod touch. Flutter: Butterfly Sanctuary is featured on DeNA’s Mobage™ social games platform.
In Flutter: Butterfly Sanctuary, the player cares for their own slice of beautiful, fragile rainforest as they raise butterflies through their fascinating, colorful life cycle. Each butterfly is a vibrant, artistically expressive depiction of a real life species with stunning wing patterns and unique behavioral characteristics. Players can collect endless varieties of brilliantly colored flora and fauna to attract new butterfly species into the forest and complete butterfly sets from all around the world. From chrysalis to caterpillar to butterfly, players foster these delicate creatures with pollen and help the rainforest thrive.
In creating Flutter: Butterfly Sanctuary, the Runaway team spent days in the hot-house of their local museum’s Tropical Forest to capture the authenticity of the butterflies and to ensure the underlying science of the butterflies’ life cycle was correct. The resulting original graphical style recreates the reality of rainforest flora and fauna previously unseen in the gaming world. Additionally, the sound effects and audio in the game immerses players into a real-life lush rainforest ambience for an even deeper experience.
“It’s our mission to create great games inspired by nature,” said Tim Nixon, director at Runaway. “This area of focus gives us a huge world of wonder to draw upon for characters and stories, while still being able to craft a unique style and feel to our games. Flutter is our best work to date and it finds a wonderful balance between factual authenticity and the magic of gameplay.”