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That’S How She Rolls: Girl Builds Custom Katamari Controller
May 26th, 2009
Hackster Queen (of All Cosmos, naturally) Kellbot has created what may become the ultimate Katamari Damacy experience: a spherical controller, so you can roll while you roll. It’s enough to make me want to learn how to wire things together.
With a metal ball, an optical mouse, bits of PS2 controllers, and a little help from Arduino, Kellbot put together the roll-a-riffic controller of all Katamari lover’s dreams. Now if only we could get that in, say, a giant beach ball form.
Kellbot calls the controller “a hella fun way” to experience Katamari Damacy, and the video footage makes me want to agree. It also looks hella accurate, while we’re throwing qualifiers around.
Please enable Javascript and Flash to view this Blip.tv video.[Life-Size Katamari Controller via CrunchGear]
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This just begs the question: How come Katamari doesn’t ship with a trackball controller? That would make so much more sense than those stupid joystick controls.
i happen to believe that someone at katamari’s development team should be taking a note from this. the joysticks are just fine to use, but a trackball would indeed make this game [even more] hella fun.