In an October 5, 2023 interview with the game's director and producer Yu Suzuki published in the Gematsu website, he revealed that his return to the rail shooter genre was spurred by a visit to Apple's headquarters, where "talk heated up about the possibility of creating a title for Apple Arcade that could be played over and over again, just like a classic arcade game.”

In an October 5, 2023 interview with the game's director and producer Yu Suzuki published in the Gematsu website, he stated that he was a long-time fan of Dutch musician Valensia when he asked him to compose the game's soundtrack, and thought that his music went really well with fantasy. When the development team had the Air Twister prototype in hand, Suzuki matched up gameplay from it with some of Valensia’s songs and was convinced that it was the best fit. While Suzuki didn't know if Valensia was still active as an artist, he looked him up on social media to get in contact with him, introduced himself, and straight out said he wanted to work with Valensia, leading to the collaboration.