It was a pleasing shock when it was first introduced that WayForward can be tackling Advance Wars 1+2: Re-Boot Camp and in a brand new podcast it was revealed how the partnership for that particular title got here to be. Advance Wars 1+2: Re-Boot Camp director James Montagna stated that WayForward at all times met up with Nintendo at E3 and got here ready with varied totally different sport pitches. Then when it got here to revive the Advance Wars sequence, the corporate contacted WayForward, as they thought they might be the appropriate studio for the challenge. Right here’s Montagna stated through the Fragments of Silicon podcast.
“It was one thing that began as a result of we’ve been speaking to Nintendo for a lot of, a few years. I believe it may need been to the tune of 7-8 years the place each E3, we’d make it a degree to fulfill with Nintendo and simply sort of chat with them and discuss potential issues we’d have the ability to do collectively. Yearly we’d include a brand new proposal to thrill, entertain, and impress them, and we’d ensure the assembly is at all times one thing the place we’d have a whole lot of enjoyable collectively. They affiliate us with having a good time laughing and chatting about video games, and simply appreciating the video games because the artwork type that it’s.
After a few years of this type of interplay with Nintendo, they got here to essentially stay up for the ‘WayForward Assembly’ as they put it, and we’d hold that going and produce one thing fascinating for them. Simply constructing a real connection. They’re such superior individuals and so they have such a ardour for video games, and you may simply really feel it speaking to them. I believe for us, we have been in a position to meet them in that zeal due to course we at WayForward, we love video games too. I believe it was only a actually good match and a great match for us to do one thing collectively, and so when the chance got here round the place they have been eager about creating one thing like Advance Wars and bringing that again, they thought, ‘who may we do that with?’ They reached out about it and it was one thing that all of us love very a lot.
… For lots of us the place we have now performed Advance Wars again within the day, the second they introduced it up, our jaw hit the ground. Like ‘After all we’d love that will help you create a reimaging of Advance Wars.’ In order that’s sort of what received the challenge began, and it was an unbelievable expertise.”
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