TITLE
He Created the Katamari Games, but They’re Rolling On Without Him
AUTHOR
Zachary Small
PUBLICATION
The New York Times
YEAR
2023
ARTICLE TYPE
Article
FROM THE ARTICLE
Keita Takahashi did not want to say much before an official announcement for his upcoming project except that it would include a boy and his dog. Yet the creations by one of the video game industry’s most eccentric designers are never that straightforward.One of his games stars a mustachioed green cube on a mission to reunite a group of giggling objects in a circle of friendship. Another asks players to stretch an alien caterpillar across the galaxy.
But neither of those oddball experiments matched the supreme weirdness of his first game, Katamari Damacy, in which players roll the clutter of everyday life — wallets, spoons, televisions — into giant balls called katamaris until even whole mountains and cities adhere to their surfaces.
GAMES MENTIONED
Katamari Damacy
PEOPLE MENTIONED
Keita Takahashi
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July 31, 2023