Shoots and ladders
Red rover, red rover… here’s a peculiar crossover: Keita Takahashi, creator of Katamari Damacy, one of the few videogames I have played (and enjoyed) has taken on a new project: designing playgrounds in England.
“What inspired you to move from game design to playground design?
Before I started making videogames, I studied sculpture. I’ve been in the videogame industry for 11 years now—and just as I started to feel I wanted to produce things in the real world instead of the virtual, I received the offer from Nottingham Park and jumped at the opportunity. Although playing while facing a television screen can be fun, I wanted to come into contact with a simple and direct type of fun experienced by being outside and moving your body. Also, playgrounds are fundamentally a public and free experience, right? I admired its lack of economic discrepancy. There may be inequalities depending on the location, though.”
We just hope we don’t get stuck to any of the structures in Takahashi’s playground.
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