Keita Takahashi’s Noby Noby Boy was weird. The 2009 PS3 release from the creator of Katamari Damacy involved an elastic quadruped character that players could floppily stretch along the game’s environment. All the elongation of the game’s players gets aggregated to help Girl, Boy’s counterpart go further into Noby Noby Boy‘s simulated-to-scale virtual universe.
The colourful, imaginative online game from the team behind Flickr and the man behind Katamari Damacy goes live today.
Katamari Damacy designer Keita Takahashi wasn’t happy at Namco Bandai. When leaving the company, he called it “so-so”. His reasons are a bit more melancholy than that.
But you can’t take the Katamari Damacy out of him. Keita Takahashi, who recently left Namco Bandai, checks out the Katamari Floating World exhibit on Wednesday. Thanks, SoylentCHUD!
Namco’s Katamari Damacy is an iconic title. People instantly recognise it. This makes Katamari perfect fodder for an art show. Yes, an art show.