Weball Lets You Play Katamari on Real Websites
Weball: Play Katamari on Websites
A browser-based game that turns any website into a Katamari level. You start by rolling up text elements, and as your ball grows, you can grab physical images off the page. Hacker News commenters praise the polish and the satisfying progression from tiny text to full images, with one noting a similar mechanic in Kirby and the Forgotten Land.
I really like that it goes from picking up text elements to eventually being able to grab physical images off the site as the ball grows larger.
- vunderba
Wow - this is surprisingly well done. I really like that it goes from picking up text elements to eventually being able to grab physical images off the site as the ball grows larger.
Tangential but I was playing "Kirby and the Forgotten Dreamland," a little while ago and in the game there's an ability you can absorb called 'needle.' It initially gives you the appearance of a spiky porcupine rolling around in a ball.
However, the evolved version of this ability lets you attach random objects to you, like a tower, a corkscrew, and a cactus, among other things. Rolling around with all these items attached to you seems to be a nod to the game "Katamari Damacy."
- Dwedit
There was a Katarmari bookmarklet way way back around 2008ish.
- OuterVale
This is such fun. I just went along and rolled up a few websites, including my own. Great little bit of web whimsy.