I’m fascinated with Moai so I always try to squeeze an appearance into my games. Moai in video games is a meme, or easter egg, going all the way back to 1983. But my game YOYOZO (out now for the Playdate handheld) is about capturing stars in space using a yoyo, so how could I get a Moai in it? The source of my inspiration was a trip to Japan back in 2004 (my only one, so far). Visiting in August meant that one of the things we did was go to an annual hanabi fireworks festival, where I saw k...
