Katamari Hack For Chrome (and Compatible Browsers)

skaet writes "Using CSS3 transforms and HTML5 canvas, the Katamari Hack for Google Chrome (and other compatible browsers) allows you to turn any website into a game of Katamari Damacy! The script was created by Alex Leone, David Nufer, and David Truong, and won the 2011 Yahoo HackU contest at University of Washington."

Comments

Safari

[mr100percent]

Works on the latest version of Safari.

Much more fun than my previous favorite browser game, Kick Ass (imagine playing Asteroids but shooting all the objects on a page).

Re:Safari

[shogun]

Ok I spoke to quickly, it just kills the visibility of the katamari, you can still play and everything thats stuck to it is still visible (until shot as well)..

Re:Safari

[AvitarX]

You have just upped the quality of my work days to come significantly.

Re:Safari

[Gadget_Guy]

So according to the posters here, it works in Safari (including on iPhone), IE9, Firefox 4 and Opera. In what way is this something for "Chrome and compatible browsers"?

Let's not go down the old road when people said "Works best in Internet Explorer" only because they did not test anything else.

Re:Safari

[cbhacking]

Amusingly, it does actually work quite well on IE(9). I agree though - standards-compliant websites should be described as such, not as "Chrome compatible." It's good that the script wasn't written in any way that woul require people to be using a specific browser or even specific rendering engine, so why describe it in such a manner?

Opera 11 = Success!

[Rinnon]

Running in Opera 11 and it works great! Pretty awesome job.

WARNING: This Is Dangerous

[definate]

A warning needs to be attached to this game. Katamari is a dangerous game to play.

First you'll start, possibly with some friends, possibly high, rolling things up, and you'll be having a good time.

Then you'll be consumed with rolling things up, accurately guessing what size objects you can roll up, and developing strategies on how to gain size more effectively.

Eventually you'll get what we like to call "Katamari Eyes". This is when in real life, you start to see regular objects in groups, which could be good for rolling up, or areas you'll want to stay away from as there isn't enough growth potential. It's a well known effect.

This destroys relationships, but given you're reading this, I don't think that's a problem you'll have.

You've been warned!

Re:WARNING: This Is Dangerous

[Greyfox]

Not to mention the risk of the song coming on the radio and then you slam your car into a mailbox...

This works really well on...

[Janvitos]

practically any porn site :)

Re:Right-click on MBP?

[Scotty L]

Get a real computer?

timecube.com

[Lazareth]

The very first thought I had was "hmm... website with LOTS of text that I despise and want to roll over and demolish with glee..." Didn't take me long to go to timecube.com

I'm in your timecube REFUTING YOUR STUPIDITY!

Flickr

[friedmud]

It's pretty fun to use in photostreams on Flickr.... all of the pictures swirling around the ball looks awesome.

Also... if you use it on Google Maps you can kind of actually play a game of Katamari! It really will pick up the map tiles (after it gets large enough) seems to grow extremely fast at that point though.... but I haven't played with the parameters too much yet.

I've been running it with the max number of items with Safari 5.0.3 on a 17" MBP without any trouble at all...

Really sweet hack!

Re:Right-click on MBP?

[friedmud]

Just tell it to use "Left Click" instead... and use three finger dragging to move it around! (Three finger dragging can be enabled in System Prefs->Trackpad if you don't already have it enabled).

Re:Right-click on MBP?

[YoshiDan]

Click with 2 fingers on the trackpad.

The official word

[93 Escort Wagon]

My daughter, who is not a computer geek but is a lover of Katamari, states categorically: "THAT IS SO AMAZING! THAT IS SO COOL!!"

Re:Outstanding!

[Noitatsidem]

Hey, I'm running astroids, and TWO katamari games at once. Now that makes me happy.