Hyper Light Drifter Dev At Risk Of Closing After Laying Off 'Nearly Everyone'
A tough end for another indie darling.
Heart Machine
Making games can be a brutal business, and another studio may have fallen victim to those struggles. Heart Machine Founder Alx Preston posted on LinkedIn today that the maker of Hyper Light Drifter has cut most of its team:
"We had been working on an unannounced title, funded by a publisher. This week, they decided to no longer move forward with it. Without this key income for the studio, any other immediate prospects or other funds, nearly everyone at the studio had to be laid off. It's devastating."
Heart Machine both developed and published Hyper Light Drifter, which launched to critical acclaim in 2016. However, the studio began working with external publishers beginning with its next effort, Solar Ash, and it announced plans in 2022 for Hyper Light Breaker. Work on the sequel to its debut game continued...
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