Colourful 16-bit action-RPG Hyper Light Drifter will be released on the PC in Spring of 2016, according to a post from developer Heart Machine on the game’s Kickstarter page.
Hyper Light Drifter was Kickstarted back in 2013, so it’s been a fairly lengthy development process - that’s perhaps not totally surprising, since the crowd-funding campaign raised $645,158, slightly more than the $27,000 that Heart Machine was asking for.
”Game development is often an imprecise process of discovering how everything works together; the core concepts, the visuals, the audio and the interactive,” the developer explains. ”Hyper Light Drifter is a big game, with a small handful of extremely dedicated people creating it. It has required a massive amount of careful design considerations, extensive conversations about the story and world, engine and tools building, plenty of discovery, trial and error, working through a variety of game-breaking and time-draining bugs, reworking and cutting of systems, reshaping, and streamlining to feel like we can deliver on the original intention and vision of the project.”
The team has decided to pace itself rather than rush to get Hyper Light Drifter out this year, hoping to avoid the crunch and get the game polished and ready for release. Despite the extended development, they say they’re ”on budget, well paced, within our means, and more excited than ever.”
Judging by the very pretty new trailer that Heart Machine has released, the game will hopefully be worth the wait.
