Last night at the Otago Museum we held our official NZ launch for Flutter and announced an exciting partnership with the Discovery World Tropical Forest which will bring our players closer to nature.

From today onwards, everyone who visits the museum’s live butterfly exhibit in Dunedin, New Zealand will get a special card to redeem an East Blue Frosted Banner, a butterfly exclusive to this type of promotion. You can see the butterfly in the flesh, then take him home virtually to play with in your grove and fly around the forest.

This is the first of many real-world tie ins we have planned for Flutter. Stay tuned for more exciting annoucements in the coming weeks as we look to empower our players to effect real change in the Amazon rainforest.

After months of design, development, testing and refinement, we are very proud to announce that Flutter is now live and available to play on Facebook. We can’t wait to hear what you think!

We also have a mini-site with a How to Play page and FAQ. Remember to follow the game on Twitter, and “Like” the game on our fan page to keep up to date with the games evolution.

This is the first step on a great journey, one we’re embarking upon with our players to shape a unique and magical social game experience which pushes the genre forward. We can’t wait to play, craft, think and explore with you guys, its sure to be one hell of a ride!

See you in the rainforest.

As we prepare to launch the game, we’d like to take a moment to send a massive shout out to our testers, especially those who stuck with us and made it through to Level 20! If you took part then you’ll be getting a big bonus to kick start your new Flutter adventure. These will be added to your account the Friday after you login to the game for the first time. Details of what you get here.

The flower above acts as a special badge of honor for those who tested the game. You won’t ever be able to get it anywhere else in the game, it’s just for you guys to show off!

And one last annoucement. Who got to Level 20 first? That would be Lars Johansson! He gets the very special bonus of being awarded one of every premium item we launch over the next month for free. Thanks for going so hard Lars!