Everyone’s favorite video game regarding rolling up everything that exists onto a sticky ball, Katamari Damacy, can now be played on any webpage with a simple piece of Javascript that can run within Google Chrome. As in the regular games, the Katamari starts off small, and as the player rolls over objects, the Katamari picks up said objects, helping the Katamari to grow in size, which in turn, allows the Katamari to roll up bigger objects. In certain levels in the games, players start smaller than a mouse, but eventually grow in size until they are literally rolling up landmasses and rainbows. With this hack, players can pretty much do the same thing to webpages, rolling up text and images, though they’ll have to find a rainbow fan site if they want to roll up some of those.
Head to Kathack.com, copy and paste the code into Chrome’s address bar, press enter, and off you roll. The initial hack required the use of holding right-click to move the Katamari, but this didn’t work out quite so well on MacBook trackpads, so Hacker News user aes provided some code to change the controls around to the left-click. Head to aes’ post, then simply copy and paste the code into Chrome’s address bar, press enter, and destroy a webpage. The hack also features the Katamari Damacy theme song, so you’ll have that stuck in your head for a while.
(Kathack.com via GamePro; button switch via Hacker News)
