How it all started:

It all started somewhere around 2010, when rumblesushi decided to create his own proprietry games engine running in Adobe Flash.

rumblesushi: "I've always loved arcade games and racing games and the original intent was to bring a true 90s arcade racing game to the web, seeing as there was nothing like that at the time. I had to build my own engine to facilitate that. It was hard work but rewarding and was unique at the time. It  pushed things further than the platform was designed for at that time. Flash had no GPU support and therefore you had to write your own 3D software renderer. Super Drift 3D had big console style levels in 7.5 mb web game, it certainly didn't look like Gran Turismo, but for the platform it was pretty exciting. Super Drift 3D was released in 2011 and had over 100 million plays in the first year, we made three sequels and other games such as Super Rally , Police Persuit and Monster Race 3D. Even Adobe contacted us to say they really liked what we'd done in Flash.

Super Drift was inspired by a lot of things - classic arcade racing games like Ridge Racer and Outrun. A love of Japanese car culture - and of  course, the Initial D anime. I'd bought the original anime on DVD, shipped all the way from Japan. That's why the game featured the Hachi Roku as the starter car, and a lot of the other cars were JDM cars. It was all mixed in with the 90s racing vibes." 

dreamcheese (artist): "We didn't really go by any rules and just put in all the things we loved, so the mix was a bit crazy, but the fans loved it for that. It was quite wild and exciting and I think you could tell we'd really had fun making it. I'd never even made a 3D model before, so it was a huge learning curve. I wanted the car models to look just right and the first one took me about three months to make! The cities were really fun. I especially loved the neon night time cities and RS loved the beaches and the huge fish tank tunnel.

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It's amazing for us to read and receive comments and messages from fans, it makes all the hard work feel worthwile and we love knowing that Super Drift 3D was a special part of a lot of people's childhoods and made people happy.