“Steve [Myers] and I spoke very early after Circuit Superstars shipped. He reached out mostly as a fan of Circuit Superstars, wanting to connect with us and learn more about our company and what we were up to.

“From then on, we just developed a relationship and once in a while we would get together and chat about progress with Circuit Superstars and other endeavours. It was in 2023 around the summer that we started to talk more seriously about potentially partnering to build something together.

“Steve really wanted to build a game that invited people to experience the fantasy of creating a motorsport team and participating in different categories of motorsport. And having grown up around racetracks ourselves, myself and my siblings, them being race car drivers and me being kind of a pit crew to them throughout my life, we really resonated with this idea.”

“So much is built from scratch. Our track building technology has completely evolved from what we used to have.

“All of our art had to go through a process of refinement, we create this stylized art style in a more detailed and loyal way to be seen a lot closer. So the game feels a lot less like a diorama, and a lot more like a cute real world that you are a part of.

“Throughout our time having Original Fire Games, which has been seven years now, we've been building what we refer to as a racing toolkit. It's all the technology that allows us to have leaderboards, ghosts, replays, racing systems in the racetracks.

“There's a bunch of racing systems for making a racing game that were built during Circuit Superstars, others were built during Karting Superstars, and we've certainly developed a ton during iRacing Arcade”

“When Steve and I were conceptualizing this project, one of the things that became important was this idea that you're building a racing business.

“Steve is a big fan of strategy games, and he really liked the idea of building a base that you could optimize and that would contribute to your racing in-game.

“At the beginning, we thought that we were just going to have some buildings that you would upgrade but it became important at four or five months into the project to make that space something that belonged to the player and something that the player could really put their decisions into, their personalities into to customize.

“This is a place where you can just be cozy, rest from the racing, and use your money to decorate this little diorama space that reflects your progression in the game so far”

“We really enjoyed creating the licensed content. It's inspiring to have, for example, the Mexico City track, which is our hometown. It's inspiring to have Miami.

“Obviously there's perks to having our own content, like there are tracks from Circuit Superstars like Sugar Hill and Maple Ridge that are obviously very close to our hearts.

“But having licensed content feels like an opportunity to attract people that want to have these experiences and it's also a creative opportunity to think about how are we going to make this track fit this tiny world and make these race tracks fun to race in with little fast cars.

“So I would say it was really enjoyable, having a Porsche and a Fiat in our game as an independent small studio feels unreal and I'm really grateful.”

“I was getting frustrated not being able to find mods that met my preferences.

“Browsing Overtake.gg is basically impossible, you have very limited controls which means some really good quality content gets buried on page 64 of 1000 because there are so many work in progress, abandoned projects, deleted projects and also poor quality mods.

“I decided to curate all the Overtake.gg mods and tag them appropriately to make finding the mods you want easier. I then thought it would be a good idea to include professional modding studios too as their work is exceptional and should be supported.”