{"id":38495,"date":"2018-08-07T22:17:00","date_gmt":"2018-08-07T22:17:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gamasutra.com\/view\/news\/323923"},"modified":"2018-08-07T22:17:00","modified_gmt":"2018-08-07T22:17:00","slug":"how-co-op-was-introduced-in-captain-toad-treasure-tracker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2018\/08\/07\/how-co-op-was-introduced-in-captain-toad-treasure-tracker\/","title":{"rendered":"How co-op was introduced in Captain Toad: Treasure Tracker"},"content":{"rendered":"

“When we were talking about designing the game, we compared it to packing a bento box. Because you want to pack everything in but have to figure out the best way to get there.”<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

–\u00a0 Game director Shinya Hiratake<\/em>\u00a0speaking<\/em>\u00a0to Polygon about Captain Toad: Treasure Tracker<\/em><\/p>\n

When\u00a0Captain Toad: Treasure Tracker<\/em>\u00a0initially launched for the Nintendo Wii U back in 2014, it failed to find its footing, but the developers did<\/em> discover what players enjoyed the most while porting the title to the 3DS, all thanks to\u00a0Super Mario Odyssey.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

In an interview\u00a0with Polygon<\/a>,\u00a0Captain Toad: Treasure Tracker<\/em>\u00a0game director Shinya\u00a0Hiratake\u00a0discusses how\u00a0Super Mario Odyssey\u00a0<\/em>influenced cooperative play being introduced in the game for\u00a0the Nintendo Switch.\u00a0<\/p>\n

“When we were creating the game on Wii U, we really thought that that [stereoscopic] 3D would help and enhance this game,\u201d Hayashida\u00a0explains, \u201cso initially our idea was to port the game to 3DS.”<\/p>\n

But when the Wii U version couldn’t find a wide audience, the team\u00a0decided to port the game to the 3DS first, before bringing it over to the Switch. They wanted to revisit the idea of letting two people play\u00a0Captain Toad\u00a0<\/em>cooperatively, together.<\/p>\n

“While we were porting the game to 3DS, we were also making\u00a0Super Mario Odyssey,”<\/em>\u00a0Hayashida says. \u201cWhen\u00a0Super Mario Odyssey<\/em>\u00a0was being developed, we started to realize that [players really liked] sharing the controls and playing with other people.”<\/p>\n

“When we were making the Wii U version, we considered putting in a two-player mode \u2014 we thought it would be fun, but unfortunately that didn\u2019t make it in.\u00a0When the Switch launched we thought perhaps there\u2019s a way to share a controller and play with two people, and that\u2019s how things started.”<\/p>\n

The development team was able to try new things as well, which is a Nintendo staple when it comes to designing mechanics. After all, Captain Toad himself isn’t able to jump because of his heavy backpack, resulting in a character tasked with exploring self-contained levels in 3D.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe wanted to build a sandbox: a small, contained world that has a linear path, and someone that could not jump. By having a main character that couldn\u2019t jump, we thought it would be easier for the player to explore the 3D world,” Hayashida\u00a0explains.\u00a0“Also, we would be able to contain the world and not make it too big.”<\/p>\n

The interview\u00a0was part of a longer discussion surrounding the evolution of\u00a0Captain Toad<\/em>\u00a0and how certain design choices influenced gameplay, so be sure to read that\u00a0over at Polygon.<\/a>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

“When we were talking about designing the game, we compared it to packing a bento box. Because you want to pack everything in but have to figure out the best way to get there.” –\u00a0 Game director Shinya Hiratake\u00a0speaking\u00a0to Polygon about Captain Toad: Treasure Tracker When\u00a0Captain Toad: Treasure Tracker\u00a0initially launched for the Nintendo Wii U […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":38496,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38495","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38495","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38495"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38495\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/38496"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38495"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38495"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38495"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}