{"id":44,"date":"2008-10-15T22:01:19","date_gmt":"2008-10-16T02:01:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/iandallas.com\/?p=44"},"modified":"2008-10-15T22:01:19","modified_gmt":"2008-10-16T02:01:19","slug":"i-hugged-the-creator-of-katamari-damacy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/iandallas.com\/blog\/main\/2008\/10\/i-hugged-the-creator-of-katamari-damacy\/","title":{"rendered":"I Hugged the Creator of Katamari Damacy!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I went to the Tokyo Game Show last week. Officially I was there to talk about my game <a href=\"https:\/\/iandallas.com\/games\/swan\">The Unfinished Swan<\/a> and another game I worked on, <a href=\"http:\/\/winterbottomgame.com\">The Misadventures of P.B. Winterbottom<\/a>, which were showcased in the TGS <a href=\"http:\/\/tgs.cesa.or.jp\/sown\/en\/\">Sense of Wonder Night<\/a>. But mostly I went so I could give Keita Takahashi, one of the SOWN judges and the creator of <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Katamari_Damacy\">Katamari Damacy<\/a>, a big hug.<\/p>\n<p>Mission accomplished! Finally, my ecstatic love for Keita Takahashi is no longer a secret!<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_45\" aria-labelledby=\"figcaption_attachment_45\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"width: 410px\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.iandallas.dreamhosters.com\/blog\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/10\/keita.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-45\" title=\"Keita Takahashi\" src=\"http:\/\/www.iandallas.dreamhosters.com\/blog\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/10\/keita.jpg\" alt=\"Keita Takahashi and I at the Sense of Wonder Night, 2008\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/iandallas.com\/blog\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/10\/keita.jpg 400w, https:\/\/iandallas.com\/blog\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/10\/keita-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"figcaption_attachment_45\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Keita Takahashi and me at the Sense of Wonder Night, 2008<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I went to the Tokyo Game Show last week. Officially I was there to talk about my game The Unfinished Swan and another game I worked on, The Misadventures of P.B. Winterbottom, which were showcased in the TGS Sense of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/iandallas.com\/blog\/main\/2008\/10\/i-hugged-the-creator-of-katamari-damacy\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-44","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/iandallas.com\/blog\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/iandallas.com\/blog\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/iandallas.com\/blog\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iandallas.com\/blog\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iandallas.com\/blog\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=44"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/iandallas.com\/blog\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48,"href":"https:\/\/iandallas.com\/blog\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44\/revisions\/48"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/iandallas.com\/blog\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iandallas.com\/blog\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iandallas.com\/blog\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}