Hyper Light Drifter

[StaticSpine]

http://www.heart-machine.com/
http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1661802484/hyper-light-drifter

Explore a beautiful, vast and ruined world riddled with unknown dangers and lost technologies. Inspired by nightmares and dreams alike.

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Tha game collected a lot of money on Kickstarter and passed through Steam Greenlight. It somehow caught my attention, I can't say why, but it attracts me very much, though I'm not a big fan of Pixel Art. For me it looks like a mixture of Bastion and Fez.

Any thoughts?

 

[Awor Szurkrarz]

Looks promising. I hope they'll put it on Humble Store.

Two things that caught my atttention:
Vast ruins.
Brutal combat.

I hope brutal combat means:
No HP-bloat.

 

[warpig]

Wow, the trailer looks beautiful and outlandish. They got the "atmosphere" part right, just hope they don't fuck up the actual gameplay (the idea sounds like something that could be fun).

 

[Metro]

Thanks for bringing this to my attention, sir!

 

[lightbane]

I see they took inspiration from Nausicaa, an old manga/later anime movie. Shouldn't this be enough to move this topic to the jrpg subforum?


Jokes aside, it looks awesome. I'll wait until more information is released though before doing anything.

 

[StaticSpine]

The gameplay is declared to be a mixture of Zelda and Diablo.

 

[Machocruz]

10 minutes of alpha gaemplays from Rock, Paper, Socialwelfare.

 

[Awor Szurkrarz]

By the way, check out their page. They have some nice retro-games. I like the looks of Shoot First a lot.

 

[StaticSpine]

10 minutes of alpha gaemplays from Rock, Paper, Socialwelfare.

Actually the combat and overall gameplay reminded me of Ys series.

 

[StaticSpine]

We plan for the closed beta to come out near June, so you'll still savage hordes of beasts and explore a section of the world in due time. The Steam + PC release are first, as they were the initial platform; we have our sights set on the end of the year holiday season. Other platform releases are planned to follow shortly thereafter.

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Spoiler

 

[Ulminati]

Drifters! It's been a whole year (!!) since we launched our campaign (wow, time bleeds quick these days), and it seems apt to celebrate with this playable Preview build! If you supported us at the $25 tier or above, get ready for the avalanche of meaty murder before you.

Preview (once called a Beta) Build
Beta isn't exactly the right term; some game features are locked, some have been hidden, others are being refined, and content is always being generated for the world. So, to help communicate a bit better we're calling it a Preview Build.

The important thing is that you get an early playable slice of the game starting on the26th of September at 12:01 am (EST)! It will run until Midnight (PST) of the 28th. Beware vicious things living in the depths.

You'll receive a Steam Key in your email (the one used for your KS account) before the 26th.

Platforms

While we have said previously that this build would be for Windows only, we've decided to push extra hard and try our best to get it on Mac as well. However, since it's early days on OSX for us we can't make a firm promise.

Feedback

If you have bugs, crashes, and other issues send us a line at support@heart-machine.com. We will address issues the best we can as they come in. You can also use the KS comments and Steam forums for discussion.

Pre-Orders

If you haven't supported/pre-ordered at the Beta Access level, you can still get in on this limited Preview through the "Early Access Humble Widget" on heart-machine.com.

We're working with Steam to see if we can streamline the process, and give direct access throughout the preview weekend. We'll keep you updated.

The Full Game

Though we're working incredibly hard, we still have much to do. More levels, more enemies, more weapons; so many things! We're excited to put this early build into your hands so that we may learn directly from you, our supporters, what's working and what can be refined. As always, we'll keep you informed on how the game is developing as we continue crafting the full experience.

Final Bits
We're planning a Twitch Livestream Friday afternoon around 5pm PST, where we'll answer questions, play games, and doodle some things. Our Twitch channel lives here:twitch.tv/heartmachinez. More details will be posted on our devlog and twitter account.

We wish you well on your journey. Until next update, enjoy the preview and be kind, Drifters.

 

[StaticSpine]

New trailer. Planned for release in Spring 2016.

 

[StaticSpine]

GOG preorder

 

[CryptRat]

The game will be released on March 31st.

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1661802484/hyper-light-drifter/posts/1518661?ref=dash

 

[Riskbreaker]

Heh, I actually genuinely forgot that I even backed this stuff until I saw their survey in me mail few days ago.

 

[orcinator]

I gave the demo a try and it was kinda shit.

Does the newer gameplay footage look less shallow or is there nothing to this game but the EVA ripoff pixel art?

 

[Ulminati]

$10 pledge about to pay off. I just got new batteries for my controller too.

 

[Siveon]

Backed this a long long time ago. Really can't wait for that Wii U version.

 

[StaticSpine]

Backed this a long long time ago. Really can't wait for that Wii U version.

Hyper Light Drifter May Not Be Coming to Wii U

 

[Siveon]

Hyper Light Drifter May Not Be Coming to Wii U

I know, hence the ""

 

[Lucky]

Its out now.
GOG, Humble Store and Steam.

 

[pakoito]

So, is the game good? I have spare time this afternoons to play.

 

[toro]

So, is the game good? I have spare time this afternoons to play.

I've just killed the first boss after 30 minutes of pain. It's good.

The game is reminiscent of Dark Soul and some other stuff (but nothing crosses my mind right now).

Also I'm retarded. My reflexes are shit.

 

[Merlkir]

As usual I'm having trouble distinguishing between barriers, elevated areas and places I can actually go to, so it's a lot of running into walls and off cliffs for me. :/

And my reflexes are shit, so combat is hard. It tries to do the whole thing where you learn things about the game and the world without being told anything, it's all visual learning. Semi successful for me, so far.

 

[Jack Dandy]

30FPS means it's a pass for me