Hyper Light Drifter

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Hyper Light.

Hyper Light, yes.

Yeah, yeah,

yeah.

And...

i don't know what happened to them right but like if it was up to me i would have encouraged them to keep doing the solar ashes and they were sort of venturing out into other genres which i don't know that that necessarily so you

sorry not to interrupt but you please it was hyper light drifter solar ash then they had hyper light breaker in yes early access and you reviewed possessors for us

Very much so.

When the Kickstarter for Hyper Light Drifter came out, I not only donated to the Kickstarter, but I got personally invested in the story of Alex Preston.

The reason it's called Heart Machine Games is because he was hospitalized with a heart condition and he spent the time, his downtime, because he couldn't really move.

trying to make a video game.

And I love Hyper Light Drifter.

It's very close to my heart.

I would replay it today.

And I'll admit, I haven't liked any of their games as much as I've liked their first game.

And, like, I love these stories.

It reminds me of, like, Celeste and then also Hyper Light Drifter-

Mm-hmm

... by Heart Machine, showing, like, these things that we're all dealing with or some people are dealing with, some of...

This is cool.

It reminded me of that, and there's, like, a sort of other ones like, um, uh, not so much Hyper Light Drifter.

Um, now what am I thinking of? Um, what's, uh-

You're, you're putting me on with these.

Uh...

Um, is it Hyper Light Drifter? Is that the one I'm thinking of?

Possibly.

No, that's, that's the...

If there's any games you're looking at, let us know.

Um, so two games for me, Hyper Light Drifter, a game that I have never played, but I feel like it, it was, is just a game that you've gotta play.

So I probably will pick that up in this Steam sale.

Um-

Hyper Light Drifter.

That was by, uh, oh gosh, by Heart Machine, uh, is the name of the studio.

I can't remember who made it.

Which is also stupid.

Heart Machine, the developer of Hyper Light Drifter, has laid off nearly all of their staff, which is sad.

Sad and depressing.

Hyper Light Drifter, I played a little bit of it.

I don't remember much of the game itself, but I remember it being a very visually impressive game.

I very much liked the art direction of it.

I don't know if you had other bad news, Alex, but this one I just saw today.

Heart Machine, the guys who made Hyper Light Drifter, it sounds like they had a ton of layoffs there.

Oh, dang.

Yeah.

so heartbreaking that you have an indie studio like that and it's like one bad game.

That's it.

You know, Hyper Light Drifter was like a breakout success.

I mean, maybe it didn't do as well commercially as I feel like it did, but like it was like a critical darling.

Absolutely.

Heart Machine, the developer of Hyper Light Drifter, is facing a possible shutdown.

The studio's in-development game had secured funding, but their publisher cancelled the agreement.

They canceled it? Were there any details given? They canceled it in the sense that they're like, yeah, okay, actually, we don't want to do this? Yeah,