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Fan project turns Met Museum's open-access collection into a Katamari Damacy game

Developer Jay Mollica built a browser game called Katamari Met, which recreates the rolling-ball mechanic of Katamari Damacy using real objects pulled from the Metropolitan Museum of Art's Open Access collection. Items are rendered at their actual size, starting with small artifacts like coins, thimbles and netsuke and scaling up to large pieces such as the Temple of Dendur, with a leaderboard tracking player progress.

MSCHF co-creator Lukas Bentel departs to launch independent studio

Lukas Bentel, who helped design MSCHF's viral Big Red Boot and other stunts including a 2024 project involving the Metropolitan Museum of Art, has left the collective to start his own venture. The move was disclosed in an interview reflecting on his work at MSCHF and his plans going forward.