The man who made Katamari Damacy and Noby Noby Boy no longer works for Namco Bandai, according to reports this week.

A Namco Bandai spokesperson told Play.tm that Keita Takahashi has parted ways with the company.

Takahashi has long expressed dissatisfaction with the videogame industry. He regularly threatens to abandon games for quirky gigs like playground design.

It could be that such gripes are part of the game maker's creative process. But this move means that the designer is without a boss, regular paycheck and a publisher. For the short term, at least, Keita Takahashi is now an indie game designer.

Maybe this is where the guy should have been all along.

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