It’s no exaggeration to say that Lemorion’s Meccha Chameleon is an impressive feat for the indie scene. Despite it being a fairly simple game made with limited resources over a short period of time, or perhaps precisely because it’s so simple and catchy, the solo-developed party game managed to sell over 15 million copies in just a month, finding its place among this year’s top selling games (if not becoming the actual best selling game of the year).
Riding on that wave of popularity, Meccha Chameleon’s “concept” itself has also been going viral on social media, with many people actually painting and hiding the little chameleon guys across public spaces.
And now, Meccha Chameleon seems to have infiltrated Google as well. As hinted by the developer Lemorion, typing “Meccha Chameleon” into the Google search bar might give you some interesting results.
In a similar fashion to “do a barrel roll” or “askew,” looking up the game in either English or Japanese will lead you to a special easter egg. While at first glance, nothing seems out of order, if you take a closer look around the search results, you might be able to find the chameleon guys hiding around the page. This works both in dark and light mode.
On a related note, despite being released only last month, Meccha Chameleon has been rolling out new maps and features at an extremely fast pace. A new Egypt map was added only last week, and this was only one day after the addition of the slightly unusual Hikakin Museum map which celebrates the work of Hikakin, one of Japan’s most popular YouTubers. According to the developers of Meccha Chameleon, this constant, and more than anything, speedy output is possible thanks to their smart asset reuse and a “make it exist first, perfect it later” approach to development.
Meccha Chameleon is available for Windows (Steam).
