Namco High

Namco High is a freemium browser-based dating sim featuring characters from Namco Bandai's video game franchises. Andrew Hussie is the project's creative director.

Playing as the Cousin to the Prince from the Katamari series, the player is able to date other Namco Bandai characters. Six characters are available to date for free, while another twelve can be purchasable premium content. All twelve, including the three Homestuck characters; Terezi Pyrope, Jane Crocker, and Davesprite, can be obtained via the Deluxe Pak. Three 3-Paks also exist that allow the purchase of pre-selected groups of three Namco Bandai and a random Homestuck character, all nine Namco Bandai characters can also be purchased separately.

Plot
The game begins with the Cousin explaining that he is the nephew of The King of All Cosmos and the cousin of the Prince. The Cousin envies the Prince's abilities at rolling things things up, so he decides to take a shot at rolling a katamari around the Namco High school grounds. Unfortunately he gets carried away and rolls up the entire high school with his katamari, and as a result ends up in detention. From there the Cousin can meet and become friends with any character in the detention hall.

Development
According to George Rohac, the game's co-producer and director of business development at What Pumpkin Studios, Namco High was the product of discussions What Pumpkin held with video game developers prior to the Kickstarter for the Homestuck Adventure Game. Namco Bandai was involved in these discussions, and while it ultimately did not become the game's developer the company still wanted to work on a project with Andrew Hussie, leading to the creation of Namco High. The game was officially announced on July 18, 2013, at San Diego Comic-Con.

Trivia

 * The Cousin is pseudo-canonically an Heir of Heart.