Mario Kart Live: Home Circuit devs originally thought adding drift to the game would be impossible

Mario Kart has a number of mechanics fans would consider staples of the franchise, and drifting is definitely one of them. Implementing drift in a Mario Kart game is easy enough, but adding it to something like Mario Kart Live: Home Circuit was a whole new challenge.

In a blog post from Velan Studios, we learn that the team originally thought adding drift to the game was an insurmountable task. Obviously they overcame the hurdle and made it happen, but not without some hard work!

The idea of adding drift to the game seemed impossible but we knew that it is such a critical aspect of Mario Kart, especially for expert players. A late-project weekend experiment at Velan, with some suggestions from the Nintendo team, suddenly added drift, and it brought that important layer of skilled driving that players expect of Mario Kart. It was a journey of learning to overcome our own doubts that led Mario Kart Live Home Circuit to become the product that it is. From drift, to steering assist for younger or less experienced players, to Bullet Bill self-driving, we never stopped striving to deliver as close to a true classic Mario Kart experience as possible.