New York hacker Kelly Farrell has created a custom Katamari Damacy controller that works by rolling a large silver ball. From the article: "It uses an optical mouse to track the ball. I gathered up some cheap PS2 controllers, ripped out the potentiometers on the analog sticks, and replaced it with a digital potentiometer and an arduino. The arduino takes signals from a PS/2 mouse and adjusts the potentiometer accordingly."
Keita Takahashi says he has ideas for new Katamari Damacy games…
Well that sucks to see. Maybe it'd be easier to work with Bandai Namco in their home country, at least.
Some of the Katamari games have been great but lets face it, the concept is done now and new entries are just milking it.
You've inspired him. His new game will be about a princess who has to undo all the horrible work her brother did. You must unroll all these things and put them back in their place. Thank you for your words of inspiration!
That sucks for him 🥺 maybe he could make a spiritual successor of he finds a publisher?
The early 2000s was a crazy, weird time of defeating dystopias with karate, sending texts via Microsoft Excel, and ignoring your pets so you could look at jpegs of pets. As its adverts might have suggested, the PlayStation 2 was no stranger to getting a little bit freaky either.
..that article /list is only scratching on the surface of the weirdness on ps2. There are way more obscure games on that console.
I would go alone with SOME on this list but a few arent even exclusive.. in fact the PS2 version of GIANTS is an after-thought and considered bastardized compared to the PC version.
Katamari Damacy is a real joy of a game that feels a lot more optimistically about us than some of us might realize.
NAnan nanana nanaaaaa Katamari Damachiiiii
Man, I love this game! still have my PS2 version :)
That is pretty cool. :)
Would make playing Katamari that much easier...