Created in collaboration with a Japanese animation studio, the interactive Google Doodle game pays homage to 16-bit video games from Japan.
Celebrating the Tokyo Olympics, Google has launched the Doodle Champion Island Games, a series of virtual „sport mini-games“ to be held over the coming weeks. The latest Google Doodle is the largest interactive Google Doodle that the search engine has ever made, said Nate Swinehart, art lead at the Google Doodle Team. The game sees players compete as „Lucky the Ninja Cat,“ a calico cat character who comes across „legendary opponents, dozens of daring side quests, and a few new (and old) friends“ on Champion Island in seven sport games, according to Google. Lucky’s ultimate goal is to „defeat each sport Champion to collect all seven sacred scrolls—and complete extra hidden challenges“ across the island, Google explains. Users can get in on the action by clicking on the Google Doodle and joining one of the teams in „the real-time global leaderboard.
