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 […]