Mario Kart World's staff would "go skateboarding or ride their bikes" during lunch breaks, which explains the wild movement in the Switch 2 racer

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Mario Kart World's fancy movement mechanics were in part made by devs who would spend their lunch breaks skateboarding.

Mario Kart World may be catching some strays thanks to its glut of intermission tracks breaking up the actual track racing, but when you ignore that fact, I can't think of a Mario Kart game that feels better to play.

That love seems to extend to a lot of the development team, "we even have some staff members who go skateboarding or ride their bikes outside of the development team’s office building during lunch breaks."

But even then, Yabuki reckons players haven't found all of it, "We’ve also prepared many different gimmicks that are in between the courses, and I get the impression that there are still not many people who have practiced or fully played through them."

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