Sidebar Games – Golf Story was originally for Wii U, Nintendo’s involvement, cut split-screen two-player story mode

Redbull caught up with Andrew Newey from Sidebar Games for a chat about the hit Switch game Golf Story. Newey commented on the project’s Wii U origins, how Nintendo was involved, and a cut idea involving a split-screen two-player story mode.

Read Newey’s responses about these topics here. You can find the full interview on Redbull here.

On Wii U origins…

“It was just a small game at first, since we wanted to get something out before the Wii U ended, but it kind of got out of hand, with too many ideas. We managed to move it over to Switch thanks to Nintendo being interested in it.”

On Nintendo’s involvement…

“Being a new and unknown game, we thought we would be left to do most of it on our own, but they were actually very involved and helped us out a lot with releasing it.”

On a cut split-screen two-player story mode…

“At one point we had a split-screen two player story mode planned. Two people would be able to roam freely and play a mini adventure. It would have taken a lot of extra reprogramming and not everybody would be able to do it so we eventually decided to just focus on the main story mode and add more variety to it.”