With the continuous advancement of gaming technology, soaring development costs have become the norm in the industry.Japanese game industry analyst Papen recently compared the development team size of "Mario Kart: World" with the previous series and found that the number of development teams in this latest work has increased significantly, with the most outstanding expansion of the art department.

Data shows that the development team of "Malio Racing 8 Deluxe Edition" has a total of 163 people, including 18 people in game design, 72 people in programming, and 73 people in fine arts.The scale of the development team of Mario Kart: World has increased significantly, with the number of game designers increasing to 22 and 86 programmers. The most amazing thing is that the art team has reached 192, which is 119 more than the previous work.

It is worth noting that the art team is subdivided into two major groups: a scene design group with 88 members and a character design group with 57 people.This staffing configuration reflects that the open world map design is the main reason for this team expansion.The team composition also shows that most artists are newcomers in the series - only 6 people in the scene design team have participated in the development of "Malio Racing 8 Deluxe Edition", and 1 person has participated in the "New Track Pass"; only 3 people in the character design team have previous experience.

For comparison, 80% of the developers of "Malio Racing 8" in 2014 participated in the "Malio Racing 8 Deluxe Edition" project.This huge change in personnel structure reflects the huge demand for art resources in contemporary 3A game development.