By moving both ends in opposite directions, the player can stretch the Boy's abdomen to colossal lengths.

The player can maneuver the Boy around its environment, interacting with stationary objects like houses, or AI-controlled characters such as barnyard animals.

[13] GIRL completed her ultimate objective of uniting all the solar system in harmony on December 14, 2015.

[15] The game was first shown at a press conference held during Sony's PlayStation Premiere 2007 event in Tokyo.

In the demo; as many as three Boys were shown interacting on a flat plane filled with barnyard animals; their elastic bodies were used to snap, whip, entangle, and drag themselves around.

[citation needed] A second gameplay demo was shown at the Tokyo Game Show 2008 Namco Bandai exhibit.

Once through the maze, the Boy was directed toward a game title screen made of the same blocks, which were then scattered.

The reason behind this was that Takahashi preferred the symmetrical design of the analog sticks on the PlayStation 3 rather than those found in the Xbox 360's controller.

[19] Also included in the update was a larger selection of in-game music, a new feature that audibly pronounces phonetically the name of any objects farted, a volume slider for fart sounds, new "hair styles" for Boy's house as well as new bird thinking poses.