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Katamari creator's new game is Tenya Wanya Teens

Katamari creator Keita Takahashi and his wife and former Namco composer Asuka Sakai are behind a new game described as "a coming-of-age tale about love, hygiene, monsters and finding discarded erotic magazines in the woods".

The pair have a studio named Uvulva which is working in collaboration with a UK team called Wild Rumpus and indie game site Venus Patrol.

"It’s a game about trying desperately to not say or do the wrong thing at the wrong time - that universal struggle to maintain the façade of normality during the awkward transition from child - to adulthood," Venus Patrol said.

More concretely, Tenya Wanya Teens is a two-player party game played with 16-button controllers, and will be shown off at GDC. Below is a picture of it in action courtesy of former thatgamecompany producer Robin Hunicke, a friend of Takahashi who worked alongside him at TinySpeck before the developer closed its MMO, Glitch. An animated GIF of the controller is kind of cool, too.

Thanks, Joystiq.

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Based in Australia and having come from a lengthy career in the Aussie games media, Brenna worked as VG247's remote Deputy Editor for several years, covering news and events from the other side of the planet to the rest of the team. After leaving VG247, Brenna retired from games media and crossed over to development, working as a writer on several video games.

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