In Real Life

Did You Notice When Noby Noby Boy Touched Uranus Last Week?

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.


September 27, 2011
PC

They Made Flickr. He Made Katamari Damacy. Together, They’re Launching Glitch

The colourful, imaginative online game from the team behind Flickr and the man behind Katamari Damacy goes live today.


News

Ex-Katamari Damacy Dude Hopes Vita Version Is ‘Gooooood’

On Famitsu.com, former Katamari Damacy designer and current Glitch developer Keita Takahashi is blogging in English and Japanese about his life and Canada as well as his opinions about things like the Vita Katamari game. More in the link. [Famitsu]


July 9, 2011
News

Glitch’s New God

Keita Takahashi, famed Japanese game designer and creator of surreal games like Katamari Damacy and Noby Noby Boy, has signed on to help the co-founder of Flickr create a new sort of massively multiplayer game.


News

What’s Next For The Creator Of Katamari Damacy?

Computer gaming start-up Tiny Speck today announced that they have hired Katamari Damacy developer Keita Takahashi to work on their fittingly unusual massively-multiplayer game Glitch.


December 24, 2010
Nintendo

Beefcake Game Designer Wants You To Game Naked

There is one question that we all have. That question is this: what the hell inspired Muscle March?


November 2, 2010
News

Katamari Creater Felt Like An Outsider At Namco

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.


September 24, 2010
In Real Life

You Can Take The Guy Out Of Katamari Damacy…

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!


September 8, 2010
News

Katamari Damacy Designer Leaves Namco Bandai, Calls It "So-So"

It seems that Keita Takahashi, the man known for Katamari Damacy, has left Namco Bandai.


August 20, 2010
In Real Life

Would You Like Some Katamari Art?

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.