Katamari Damacy but with The Met's collection
Katamari Damacy but it's The Met collection
A browser-based Katamari game where you roll up real objects from the Metropolitan Museum of Art's Open Access collection, all shown at their actual size. Start with coins, thimbles, and netsuke, then work your way up to the Temple of Dendur. Created by Jay Mollica, with object data from The Met under CC0.
Every single thing in this gallery is a real object from The Met's Open Access collection, at its real size.
- thepuglor
Every Katamari Damacy clone misses what made it so great: the transition between zoom levels. "I started so small and now I've sucked up everything on the planet!" The transitions between zoom levels was so well done in the original game, and none of these clones even attempt it.
- vunderba
Nice job~~ Some feedback:
• Provide a toggle for the music. It sounds like it was procedurally generated by Claude Code. I understand CC was trying to give it a "Damacy vibe", but it just doesn't have any of the charm. I can still sing the very memorable original's theme despite not having played it in over two decades.
• The camera has a bit too much elasticity when you haven't accreted much on the ball. For whatever reason, good camera controls give even SOTA LLMs a surprising amount of grief. Might be worth a bit of manual tuning.
- viraptor
On Firefox mobile, the controls are way too sensitive. I could barely aim at things. Also the joystick indicator stays in place even though you can press and drag from anywhere.
The loading is extremely slow - I'm not sure I need all the objects loaded before selecting the first level.
Also I'm not sure if some textures didn't load, but the first level is just... almost empty with random things on the floor? It doesn't have any interesting surroundings. https://photos.app.goo.gl/cEnu76hb5JeJ3DhP7 If it's not an artefact of my phone, a Katari clone needs way more polish/scenery.
- dwallin
What I would give for this to take place in an actual model of the Met. I bet you could pass an agent the floor maps of the met, along with some photos of the interior and get a pretty good recreation.
- supersimpleguy
Neat little distraction! Thanks for sharing. Sorry about the absolutely dreadful people in these comments that cannot let themselves have an iota of fun without screaming how angry they are about it.