--- title: Interview: How Wild Blue Skies Modernizes Classic... description: Chuhai Labs developers discuss building Wild Blue Skies, a modernized on-rails shooter inspired by classics like Star Fox, with Giles Goddard (former Star Fox... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/interview-how-wild-blue-skies-modernizes-classic-on-rails-shooters-22qjwcxes twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Interview: How Wild Blue Skies Modernizes Classic On-Rails Shooters | daily.dev og:description: Chuhai Labs developers discuss building Wild Blue Skies, a modernized on-rails shooter inspired by classics like Star Fox, with Giles Goddard (former Star Fox... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/interview-how-wild-blue-skies-modernizes-classic-on-rails-shooters-22qjwcxes og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/22QJWCxeS.png og:image:alt: Interview: How Wild Blue Skies Modernizes Classic On-Rails Shooters og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Interview: How Wild Blue Skies Modernizes Classic On-Rails Shooters **[80 LEVEL](https://daily.dev/sources/80lv)** · 7 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary Chuhai Labs developers discuss building Wild Blue Skies, a modernized on-rails shooter inspired by classics like Star Fox, with Giles Goddard (former Star Fox SNES programmer) on the team. The interview covers embracing genre limitations like reduced view distance, custom camera and control systems, the Studio Ghibli-inspired cel-shaded art style, level production pipeline (blockout to polish), and technical details on Unity 6, Cinemachine for cinematics, and a custom Enemy Encounter system for orchestrating boss and enemy patterns. The game released on PC, Xbox, and PlayStation, with a Switch 2 version coming later. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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