
Using a mixture of the touchscreen and the controls sticks, moving around your farm is easy. From being able to say “Shoo!” into the microphone to get your animals moving to near constant use of the touchscreen, Funky Barn keeps your interaction with the Gamepad ongoing. What might take just a little bit of getting used to is the Gamepad integration.įunky Barn does not allow you to play the game solely on your Gamepad, but it does at least use the Gamepad in some pretty clever ways. In short, if you have played these type of micro-management games before, such as Dawn of Discovery, you should feel right at home. At the outset, he helps you get your farmer and farm name established, and explains the basics. Farmer Rufus provides tips and info to get you started, and throughout the game, which can be optionally turned off. ©2012 Nintendo.In Funky Barn, you are a farmer who is out to make the most productive farm in the area. For more information visit Wii U is a trademark of Nintendo. The company is based in Melbourne, Australia. Renowned for handheld work on franchises such as SpongeBob, MX vs ATV, Cars, Ben 10 and the million-unit-selling Pony Friends, Tantalus also develops for the current generation of consoles. With seventeen years in the business and a portfolio of almost forty titles on most major platforms, Tantalus is one of the world's leading independent development studios.

For more information on 505 Games and its products please visit About Tantalus Media Product highlights include Sniper Elite V2, Naughty Bear, Rugby World Cup 2011 and IL2 Sturmovik: Birds of Prey.ĥ05 Games is headquartered in Milton Keynes, UK with offices in Los Angeles, Lyon, Munich, Milan and Madrid and a network of distribution partners within the Nordic territories and Australia.

The company publishes games on all leading console and handheld platforms as well as for mobile devices and social networks. The innovative Wii U™ GamePad™ lets gamers shake trees to make fruit fall, map out how to build the farm and interact with the farm animals using the touchscreen and microphone.įunky Barn has been rated E by the ESRB and is priced at $49.99 for Wii U.ĥ05 Games is a global video game publisher focused on offering a broad selection of titles for players of all ages and levels. Published by 505 Games and developed by Tantalus Media, Funky Barn lets players engage in hands-on farming as they raise and manage animals with quirky personalities, use offbeat farm equipment such as The Shearing Machine and The Egg Collector and manage their open-world farm by balancing a budget, laying down roads, planting trees, protecting the land against natural disasters and more.

16, 2012 /PRNewswire/ - It is time for gamers to harvest crops and shear some sheep with the launch of Funky Barn, the wild and wacky farm simulation for Nintendo's new Wii U™ system.
