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'From the beginning the game was developed as co-op,' says Diefenbach, 'and we didn't want to make it an afterthought so we've been thinking about it everyday.' Each player being able to select different sets of secondary weapons should make for some intriguing strategic choices in the main game and other modes.

The shame of it!) However, we also can't stop grinning, which again bodes well for the final game. We're constantly falling out over whose fault it is that we've failed to beat our best number of enemies killed, (46, since you ask – but the highest score so far at GDC is 95.

#HYPER LIGHT DRIFTER SPRITE FILES PC#

I say 'us' because I'm playing in co-op alongside PC Gamer UK editor Samuel Roberts. The art style and animation, in conjunction with the responsiveness of the controls, create this crunchy, kinetic, instantly satisfying sort of feedback loop that makes us want to keep playing. What that list, which is by no means complete, doesn't tell you is how much fun Hyper Light Drifter already feels. 'This is what we're using to try out new weapons, polish the weapons we have, and just have fun when we feel like playing,' says game designer Teddy Diefenbach. Fending off waves of enemies provides a perfect sampler of the frantic combat which will form the core of Hyper Light Drifter's gameplay. Not of the main campaign – an ode to classic top-down RPGs which will see the Drifter searching the lands of Buried Time for a cure to his voracious illness – but of the horde mode. So yes, it's safe to say people dig its kaleidoscopic 8-bit look *a lot*.īut how does it feel to play? LA-based Heart Machine (opens in new tab), a four-person team now supplemented with some freelance help, are here at GDC showing off a playable build. Off the back of a video that lasted less than two minutes, plus some tantalising nods to Diablo and A Link To The Past, it went on to smash its modest $27,000 Kickstarter (opens in new tab) goal by an extra $618,158.

Let's be shallow for a second, and agree that if you were to judge purely on aesthetics, then there are few, if any, more exciting games in development right now than Hyper Light Drifter.

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