Nobi Nobi Boy

Game director Keita Takahashi, creator of Katamari Damacy, has a new project in development called Noby Noby Boy (or Nobi Nobi Boy depending on your romanization). 

The game features innovative gameplay and centers around having fun, like its predecessor, Katamari.  

Keita Takahashi is a good example of a videogame auteur; one whose work doesn't aspire to the criteria of other art forms.  His games are far from High Art, (as he admits openly in this interview), but the innovative mechanics and singular aesthetic of Katamari Damacy have been used again and again as an example of the medium's artistic potential.

I've always seen a similarity between Takahashi's work and the work of artist collective Friends With You, (Sam Borkson and Arturo Sandoval III).  For me, games like Katamari and the upcoming Noby Noby Boy show how the sensibilities of visual art can permeate a videogame.