The roots of the trace back to a bedroom coding project by Malcolm Arcand Laliberte, a core member of the Newschoolers community. Arcand sought to bridge a glaring gap in the gaming market: mainstream winter sports games lacked realistic rotation axes, preventing players from throwing proper, stylish "corks" and off-axis spins like they did in real-life terrain parks.
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