“We certainly took inspiration from games like Tiny Wings and even Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater with Alto’s Adventure, but I think a lot of our inspiration comes from nature. “A lot of our inspiration comes from things outside of video games,” Team Alto executive producer Ryan Cash tells.
With such titles as these fading away over the past eight years, a return to the simplicity and isolation of the mountains proved the best remedy for the tired genre with Alto’s Adventure finding success in the mobile scene after being released in 2015. Inevitably with success came some replication as Neversoft soon became Activision 02 and released games such as Kelly Slater’s Pro Surfer and Shaun Palmer’s Pro Snowboarder while EA Sports also joined in, adding some techno tunes to the mix with the arcadey fun of the SSX series.Īn over-crowding of the market was perhaps inevitable and a sign that the genre was perhaps in too deep showed itself when Disney’s own Mickey Mouse and Goofy donned the board to ollie into their own games on the PC and Nintendo GameCube respectively. High-scores, combos and pop culture playable-characters, like Star Wars: The Phantom Menace’s villain Darth Maul, played out to various tunes inspired by sticking it to authority figures from Rage Against The Machine’s Guerrilla Radio to the N.W.A’s Express Yourself. It’s a novel idea as while extreme sports titles have been around since long before the dawn of the dot-com boom, the focus has rarely been on the art of the sport itself.ĭuring the noughties, the extreme sports game genre both formed and benefited from the broader success of Neversoft’s Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater series. After two decades of high tempo tracks, youthful rebellion and arcade-style video games Team Alto just wants to snowboard.
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