The maestro is back

One of video gaming's most creative designers is back! Keita Takahashi rocketed to fame in 2004 with his quirky cult hit Katamari Damacy. In that, a little prince tries to rebuild the universe that his father, the king, accidentally destroyed. The prince collects objects needed to do this by rolling them up into a sticky ball that picks up anything smaller than itself. Takahashi followed that up with another Katamari game before going on to Noby Noby Boy, which features a worm-like character that stretches its body to gain points.

Takahashi drifted from Japan, expressing an interest in designing playground equipment in the United Kingdom, and then ended up in Canada working on a massively multiplayer online game that eventually was scrapped, though its internal messaging service became Slack. Takahashi then settled in San Francisco.