As a child, the creative director, Davide Soliani, had always enjoyed "Mario" video games. Soliani had met Shigeru Miyamoto, creator of the "Mario" franchise a handful of times in the past; on one occasion, when Soliani first met Miyamoto at E3 2014, he requested him to sign a copy of "The Jungle Book", a game Soliani made for the Game Boy Advance in 2003.