Google’s Doodle Champion Island Games is a Tokyo Olympics 2020 themed RPG

With the Tokyo Olympics officially getting underway this weekend, Google has released a sports-themed RPG in its search screen

Google Doodle Champion Island Games
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Google Doodle Champion Island is a full RPG that allows you to compete in seven mini sporting games to collect seven sacred scrolls. This is the largest Google Doodle project to date and it has a distinctive Japanese style to the intro graphics, in recognition of the Tokyo Olympics 2020 – which are actually taking place now, in 2021 due to a COVID delay.

Clicking on the title image will take you through the Anime intro sequence before dropping into an 16-bit graphics top-down view.

Google Doodle Champion Island Games

(Image credit: Google)

Using the arrow keys and space bar, you play as Lucky the Calico Ninja Cat and join one of the four colors of team (blue, red, yellow or green). Games include table tennis, rugby, climbing, skateboarding, archery, marathon and artistic swimming. Your scores add to the team’s total points, which you can see on the leader board. There’s also lots of other places on the map to explore, including a key shop, bakery and dojos.

The games are easy to play but just challenging enough to be fun. The perfect distraction for a Friday afternoon or a lazy weekend.

Google Doodle Champion Island Games

(Image credit: Google)
Mat Gallagher
Mat Gallagher

As T3's Editor-in-Chief, Mat Gallagher has his finger on the pulse for the latest advances in technology. He has written about technology since 2003 and after stints in Beijing, Hong Kong and Chicago is now based in the UK. He’s a true lover of gadgets, but especially anything that involves cameras, Apple, electric cars, musical instruments or travel.

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