How to play the Google Doodle Champion Island Games
GOOGLE Doodle has launched a new title - Champion Island Games.
After it's success at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics, the Champion Island Games makes it's return - this time even better - free and accessible to all.
How to play the Google Doodle?
Google originally launched an interactive series of Doodle games based on events at the Tokyo 2020 Olympics.
The Doodle, which is called Doodle Champion Island Games, had seven mini-games created by Japanese animation company Studio 4°C.
Users could take part in the Olympic event-themed 16-bit games and contribute their scores to one of four teams.
But now it's back and over the coming weeks, you can re-join calico (c)athlete Lucky as she explores Doodle Champion Island even further.
A world filled with seven sport mini-games, legendary opponents, dozens of daring side quests, and a few new friends.
Her ultimate goal? Defeat each sport Champion to collect all seven sacred scrolls—and complete extra hidden challenges across Champion Island in the process.
Just click on the Doodle featured on the search page to launch the game.
So, what’s different this time around?
Lookout for bonus levels and brand mew side quests!
If you’re one of the chosen few who collects every scroll, you can even see what’s next for our favorite feline.
Studio 4°C said: “First, we identified stories and folktales from all over the country with characters that are highly recognized.”
What is the Google Doodle?
Google publishes fresh Doodles on its search page across the world.
Some target specific areas but Champion Island Games' reach is worldwide
And like Champion Island, some Doodles are interactive games that you can play without needing to download anything.
All games are archived and can be played after their time on the homepage has passed.
Doodle games can be accessed by searching for Google Doodle games on a desktop browser resulting in the archive.
From there you can scroll through the list.
Google Doodle refers to the special and temporary alteration of the logo on Google’s homepage, which is intended to commemorate holidays, events, achievements, and notable historical figures of particular countries.
Since introducing their first Google Doodle in 1998, which commemorated Nevada’s Burning man event, the Doodle "franchise" has expanded to different platforms including Doodle Games.
The Google Doodle games were first developed to teach both children and coding enthusiasts about programming and game development.
During lockdown in 2020, many of its original titles were resurrected for fans to enjoy.
It included Coding for Carrot, which involved guiding a rabbit around various puzzle-like level.
In the game, players were encouraged to collect carrots along the way using a drag-and-drop interface to “code” the rabbit’s actions.
The animated game's creator said: “We connected those folktales and characters with each of the sport events included in the game.
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"In the design process, each event champion was selected from those unique stories.
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“The team mascots and the characters in the city such as Kappa, Yatagarasu, lion dance, were also chosen as they are very well known across Japan.
"Each character’s design was based on their original story image, but then adapted for the game.”