Release Dates

11/9/06

01/11/07

TBA

TBA

Viva Pinata is a strategy game that puts the player in charge of a desolate junk yard with no piņatas. The player is armed with a number of tools to turn the junk yard into an awesome garden and attract wild piņatas. You start by smashing garbage and the hard soil with your shovel, which can get you money to buy supplies or invest in infrastructure (like a beehive). Cleaning up the junk will attract some basic piņatas, which will allow you to build up your garden and attract better pinata. There are various species of piņata, and when two piņatas of the same species live in your garden, you can have them make baby piņatas.

As you grow your garden and more piņatas call it home, you will gain experience points and level, meaning more abilities will be available to you. You can then plant large fruit bearing trees and attract piņatas that eat smaller piņatas. Feeding piņatas certain things will cause them to evolve into even better piņatas. On occasion, sour piņatas may wander through and trample your garden or leave poisonous candy that has ill effects on your piņatas. You will have to deter them or tame them. You can also hire helpers to reduce the micromanagement of your garden. Like SimCity or The Sims, Viva Pinata is very open ended.