If you happen to’re questioning why workplace productiveness nosedived this week, you’ll be able to most likely blame Google and its ingenious Katamari Damacy Easter egg recreation.

Katamari is a two-decade-old puzzle-action Namco gaming franchise that launched on PlayStation 2 in 2004 (however was unveiled in 2003 on the Tokyo Sport Present). The preliminary recreation tells the story of a prince searching for to revive the cosmos that his father, the King, destroyed in a drunken rage. 

What made it so standard although was the whimsical gameplay which contains a big magical ball that is rolled round and collects all types of objects. The sport finally spawned at the least 14 extra variations over the span of 20 years.

Maybe in honor of the anniversary, Google has added a little bit one thing particular to the “Katamari” Google search end result.

If you happen to seek for that time period on the desktop and take a look at the Google information field on the left, you may discover the magical Katamari ball. Click on on it and a rendered 3D Katamari ball will seem in the midst of the display screen, together with visible steerage on find out how to management the ball together with your keyboard’s arrow keys.

As quickly as you faucet or maintain one of many arrow keys, the ball will roll in that route. It additionally has built-in momentum which signifies that the longer you maintain the important thing, the quicker the ball rolls and the longer it takes to cease. It’s also possible to use your mouse to click on and push the ball in any route you need.

Because the ball rolls, it acts like a magnet and collects up all the pictures and thumbnails on the search outcomes web page till the ball is roofed and solely the rolling thumbnail graphics are seen. Collected graphics additionally get the identical remedy because the 3D ball and even throw shadows on the web page.

That is additionally an Easter recreation of ability because the ball turns into considerably more durable to manage the extra stuff you roll onto its endlessly sticky physique.

We are able to virtually assure you’ll spend an excessive amount of time rolling the ball round to seize each single graphic. Okay, perhaps it was simply us.

The Katamai Easter egg works in your greatest Android telephones and greatest iPhones, however as an alternative of a keyboard, you management the magic ball by taping it within the route you need the ball to roll.

In contrast to Google Doodles that seem on the anniversary day after which typically disappear, the very best Google Easter Eggs like this will final for so long as folks search the time period. We recommend you attempt it out, play for a bit, after which get again to work. We won’t all afford to get completely distracted, can we?