Via BB: OffWorld, the latest in psychedelic gameplay from the land of Everything Strange and the creator of Katamari Damacy*: Noby Noby Boy, designed around the mechanic of stretching. If this blog had archives I’d link you to blah blah etc…

Basically players can control and stretch Boy, the main character of the game. As players stretch Boy, the lengths to which he grows are uploaded to a persistent character known as Girl, who grows at the same rate as the combined length of all the players in the world. Girl starts at Earth and expands around the solar system. When Girl reaches a new milestone in the solar system, new areas are unlocked as playable stages for everyone around the world.

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As I mentioned earlier, this game is indescribable, and some people may say, “This isn’t a game!” But, what is a game? Should there be a definition for a game? That’s the way I feel.

Once again the PlayStation is pulling ahead of the XBox in innovation. Sony openly and unapologetically designs platforms that are difficult to create games for because they think adversity breeds creativity. Dave once observed: “The XBox works like it was designed by Software Engineers, the PlayStation works like it was designed by Electrical Engineers.”

That strategy has worked at least three times now.

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