It’s simple and intuitive, easing the player experience. The player able to select individual elements of their farm to directly interact with them, through use of radial wheels. In terms of the Wii U GamePad’s implementation, it mainly finds itself used as an overview tool. Each can be countered in their own individual way, with guard dogs able to keep wolves at bay, for example. Wolves will target your chickens, UFOs will attempt to beam up your cows, and Tornadoes run rampant across your farm threatening to suck up your animals. Once you’ve gotten your farm underway, you will steadily find everything put in harms way. Sporadic requests from other farmers can provide additional income, asking you to sell three eggs within a specified time limit for instance.Įxpansion comes at the risk of over stretching yourself in how much of your farm you can keep an eye on. Similar methods can be purchased for wool and milk, yet they are costly and will take time for you to implement. Your overriding goal is to create a fully automated farm, gadgetry such as egg collectors wandering around pens and selling them to cause you one less worry. You can either crush these once you spot them, or leave them to see what happens. Tantalus Media have also been sure to sprinkle humour into the mix through the random appearance of magical mushrooms, which, if munched by any of your animals, sees them either tripping out or suffer from another side effect. You are able to select the problematic animal and give them some loving attention through the Wii U GamePad’s touch screen to make them feel valued, stroking them to prove affection. It may be that you are unable to address the problem due to lack of funds, especially early on, but fret not. Not addressing any of these basic needs will see your critters become unhappy, providing you with less produce as a result and perhaps seeing them leave your farm altogether in a huff if they’re feeling ignored. It sounds relatively easy, right? Well, it becomes more complicated as you progress. It’s easy to keep them apart though, by placing fences, as well as enabling you to make sure that they don’t go strutting off randomly across the map. Individual pens for your animals are especially necessary, as chickens really don’t like being near sheep as we learned. Similarly, animals will appreciate their own barn to take shelter in, and decorations to brighten up their pen. Ensuring that your animals are content rewards you with produce, be it eggs from chickens or wool from sheep, which can then be sold to increase your increasingly important bank balance.Īs can be expected, food and water prove their basic requirements, with the player needing to keep a watchful eye to ensure that troughs are refilled when necessary. Or go old-school with button-and-stick action. Placed in control of your own farm, Funky Barn serves up a sandbox simulation experience that tasks you with attending to the continual needs of your livestock and crops. Use the Wii U Gamepad in all new ways Touch, shake, tilt, even speak to manage your farm. Yet an hour in, and it’s proved a struggle to detach myself from the game’s seemingly never ending addictive lure.

With Funky Barn we have combined the technological advances with unique humour, crazy machines and, most importantly, a lot of fun for gamers of all ages.I’ll be honest, I never thought that I would personally be enamoured by Funky Barn. Guaranteed to work and backed by Lukie Games 90 day no questions asked returns policy.

It truly marries traditional platforms with the intuitive, tactile touch screen technology that everyone uses on a day to day basis. Tim Woodley, Head of Global Brand at 505 Games said “The Wii U is an important and very exciting development for the games industry. In such an open farming world, gamers can focus on the aspects of farming they find to be the most fun. It won’t take long for gamers to become immersed in their growing farm as they also manage livestock, crop fields, and a wide variety of unique farm machines. They can even shake fruit from the trees with all-new GamePad gyroscope. Using the touch screen, players can pick up their animals and interact with them one-on-one, manage an array of crazy farming machines, and erect buildings. Veteran developers Tantalus are bringing their collection of whacky contraptions and goofy gizmos to the sandbox genre in ways never before imagined thanks to the innovative Wii U GamePad.

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