Ben Wilson is a Designer at Sumo Digital, the game development studio behind Sega’s upcoming kart racer Team Sonic Racing. We got the chance to meet up with Wilson at a demo event for the game and chat about the difficulties of developing a team kart racer that is actually cooperative.
That was one of the initial troubles Sumo Digital had with the game, as they needed to solve the problem of “what is team racing?” The solution to that problem was eventually solved after the team created a “wide list of things” they wanted to see in the game, which was narrowed down to the team mechanics we see in the finished game with skim boosts and slingshots.
Sumo Digital, part of the Sumo Group PLC (LON:SUMO) is an award-winning business providing creative and development services to the video games and entertainment industries, from studios in Sheffield, Newcastle, Nottingham, Pune (India) and Vancouver (Canada).