Why someone would turn classics like Katamari into text games

Noah Swartz seems to specialize in abstracting adorable games and distilling them into text adventures. He’s turned colorful ball-roller Katamari Damacy and cutesy cat collector Neko Atsume into text-only command-line games, which have a curious charm of their own.

“There’s hardly any gameplay in Neko Atsume, all you do is get fish to get more fish,” explained Swartz in an email. “So I figured if I made a command-line version, I could write a script to collect money and buy food for my cats.

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