We had a great time with Advance Wars 1+2: Re-Boot Camp when it finally marched onto Switch last year. The wait for this military tactics series' return had been a long one (15 years, to be precise) but for developer WayForward, the chance to work with Nintendo also felt like a long time coming (thanks, Nintendo Everything ). In a recent interview on the Fragments of Silicon podcast , WayForward's James Montagana revealed how last year's collaboration came to be, stating that the team had been meeting with Nintendo at every E3 for seven or eight years.
"Every year we’d come with a new proposal to delight, entertain, and impress them, and we’d make sure the meeting was always something where we’d have a lot of fun together," Montagana noted. "They'd associate us with having a great time laughing and chatting about games, and just appreciating games as the art form that it is." These meetings continued for years, says Montagana, with WayForward managing to build up a "genuine connection" with the Big N.
This clearly left the development team in a good position to take on the mantle of Advance Wars, with Nintendo offering WayForward the project and the developer quickly accepting. You can listen to Montagana's answer in the above video (starting at around 00:23:20 ) or we have provided a transcript below for those who'd prefer to see it written out: [Advance Wars 1+2: Re-Boot Camp] was something that started because we'd been talking to Nintendo for many, many years. I thi.