The interactive series of Olympics-themed minigames is based on events due over the next two weeks.
This is the largest-ever interactive Google Doodle game so far, whose opening cinematic and the characters were designed and animated by the Tokyo-based Studio 4°C.
The game presents a 16-bit adventure set within the game world of Champion Island.
Just clicking on the Doodle gets one started with the computer games. One click, and the Olympics mascot, the cartoony Miraitowa, emerges in a new avataar.
Ten simply follow the instructions, move her around to choose the sport you want to play.
Google will come up with more in the series during the Tokyo games.
Google s latest doodle celebrates the Tokyo Summer Olympics with a 16-bit JRPG
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Belle is the latest release from Mamoru Hosoda (
Mirai, Wolf Children) and his Tokyo-based Studio Chizu. The feature, whose Japanese title is
Ryu to Sobakasu no Hime (
The Dragon and the Freckled Princess), was announced today, along with a piece of concept art (see above).
Details are scarce, but we know that the film will be set in the world of U, an online network that draws together more than five billion users. With this premise, Hosoda returns to the theme of human communication through the internet, which he previously explored in his 2000 short
Digimon Adventure: Our War Game! and 2009 feature