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Brandon Boyer at Offworld brings word (and video proof!) of an upcoming iPhone port of Noby Noby Boy, a formerly PlayStation 3-exclusive downloadable title designed by Katamari Damacy series creator Keita Takahashi. Takahashi revealed the port during a panel held yesterday at the Game Developers Conference.
In Noby Noby Boy, players control a stretchy, caterpillar-like being named BOY. As BOY stretches, he is able to interact with the objects, animals, and people in his surrounding environment. If you so choose, you’re also able to eat the humans and animals in your path — they’ll then travel through the length of BOY’s body and will be harmlessly excreted at the end of their journey. Fun for the whole family!
Players earn points based on how far BOY stretches during gameplay. These points are then added to a worldwide scoreboard, which is represented by a bigger creature — GIRL — stretching from Earth to the end of the solar system.
The need for an iPhone version arose when Takahashi noticed that at the current rate of GIRL’s growth, it would take, oh, around 820 years or so until it lapped the entire solar system. “This is a problem,” he noted. “I’m going to be dead by then.”
The solution? Release an iPhone version that (presumably) will also count toward GIRL’s length. Takahashi revealed few other details, aside from the fact that the game has had about a week’s worth of development so far, and that it could possibly be made available as a free App Store download when it’s released. Until then, enjoy Offworld’s prototype gameplay video here.
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