| 📰 Title: | Hyper Light Drifter | 🕹️ / 🛠️ Type: | Game |
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| 🗃️ Genre: | Adventure & Action | 👁️ Visual: | 2D Top-Down |
| 🏷️ Category: | Adventure & Action ➤ Role-playing game ➤ Action RPG ➤ Misc. | 🏝️ Perspective: | Third person |
| 🔖 Tags: | Action; Action RPG; Adventure; Hack and Slash; Exploration; Open World; Fantasy; Metroidvania; Sci-fi; Post-apocalyptic; Atmospheric; Colorful; Pixel Art; Difficult | ⏱️ Pacing: | Real Time |
| 🐣️ Approx. start: | 👫️ Played: | Single | |
| 🐓️ Latest: | 🚦 Status: | 04. Released (status) | |
| 📍️ Version: | Latest: - | ❤️ Like it: | 9. ⏳️ |
| 🏛️ License type: | 💰 Commercial | 🎀️ Quality: | 7. ⏳️ |
| 🏛️ License: | Commercial | ✨️ (temporary): | |
| 🐛️ Created: | 2016-04-21 | 🐜️ Updated: | 2024-06-22 |
| 📰 What's new?: | 👻️ Temporary: | ||
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| 💡 Lights on: | 🎨️ Significant improvement: | ||
| 👔️ Already shown: | 💭️ New version published (to be updated): | ||
| 🎖️ This work: |  |
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| 👫️ Contrib.: | goupildb & Louis | 🦺️ Work in progress: | |
| 🎰️ ID: | 14955 |
| 📜️[en]: | Explore a beautiful, vast and ruined world riddled with unknown dangers and lost technologies. Inspired by nightmares and dreams alike. It is a 2D Action RPG in the vein of the best 8-bit and 16-bit classics, with modernized mechanics and designs on a much grander scale. Drifters of this world are the collectors of forgotten knowledge, lost technologies and broken histories. | 📜️[fr]: | Un jeu d'action - RPG en 2D dans la veine des meilleurs 8 bits et 16 bits classiques, avec une mécanique et des dessins modernisés sur une échelle beaucoup plus grande, dans lequel le joueur explore un monde en ruine vaste et superbe, criblé de dangers inconnus et de technologies perdues |
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🍩️ Resources
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Explore a beautiful, vast and ruined world riddled with unknown dangers and lost technologies. Inspired by nightmares and dreams alike.
Hyper Light Drifter is a 2D Action RPG in the vein of the best 8-bit and 16-bit classics, with modernized mechanics and designs on a much grander scale.
Drifters of this world are the collectors of forgotten knowledge, lost technologies and broken histories. Our Drifter is haunted by an insatiable illness, traveling further into the lands of Buried Time, steeped in blood and treasure hoping to discover a way to quiet the vicious disease. Echoes of a dark and violent past from the dead eras resonate throughout and he can't help but listen.
Visions for this game have been fluttering in my skull for ages; something dark and fantastic, with giant forests to navigate, huge floating structures to explore, deep crumbling ruins to loot, massive throngs of enemies to rend, and behemoths both flesh and mechanical to overcome. I want it all to be as beautiful as possible, forging color with the dark and eerie wastes and intimidating landscapes. It plays like the best parts of A Link to the Past and Diablo, evolved: lightning fast combat, more mobility, an array of tactical options, more numerous and intelligent enemies, and a larger world with a twisted past to do it all in.
• Rip through enemies with responsive, fun combat; engaging and brutal. Upgrade weapons, discover new equipment and trek deeper than ever.
• Traverse a dark, detailed and interconnected world with alternate paths and secret loot. Miyazaki films have taught me that beautiful animation and design add life to a world. From characters to background elements, everything is lovingly crafted while I hum show-tunes and squint suspiciously at the flickering pixels until they perform as intended.
• A challenge - The game is accessible and easy to pick up, but difficult to master and complete; enemies and hazards become more vicious and numerous, so players must use clever tactics to avoid death. (Some yell hurtful phrases at players simply to bring tears to the cereal bowl below.)
Core Mechanics
• Primary weapon - Composed of phase shifted Hard Light (also known as Solid Light), your sword acts as the primary means of offense; it's quick, brutal, and can slash through most anything. Best of all it never runs low on energy.
• Sprite Companion - An indispensable personalized drone, the Sprite manages your inventory virtually, maintains your shields, seeks out hidden paths and lights the way in the darkest of times. Functionality may be expanded with new modules.
• Secondary items - You'll come across a variety of advanced weaponry, items and gear throughout your travels; Light Rail Pistols, Heavy Rifles, various hi-power explosives and enemy-aware Seeker Drones. All of these are powered by limited batteries, found scattered throughout the world.
• Defense System - A rechargeable Hard Light Diamond shield which offers total protection from attacks for a short burst of time. If timed correctly projectiles can be reflected back at enemies for extra damage. Can be upgraded to extend duration.
• Dash Module - Multi-use gear that enables a triple speed dash; can be used to evade attacks, cut across gaps and chasms, break through certain blocks and rubble and even stun enemies.
🌍️ Wikipedia:
Hyper Light Drifter is a 2D action role-playing game developed by Heart Machine. The game pays homage to 8-bit and 16-bit games, and is considered by its lead developer Alex Preston as a combination of The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past and Diablo. Preston originally launched Kickstarter funding for the title for approximately US$27,000 to develop the title for Microsoft Windows, OS X, and Linux computers, but ended up with more than US$600,000, allowing him to hire more programmers and artists, and expanding the title for console and portable platforms through stretch goals. Though originally scoped for release in 2014, various improvements in the game and issues with Preston's health set the release back. The Microsoft Windows, Linux and OS X versions were released in March 2016, and the PlayStation 4 and Xbox One versions in July 2016. A Nintendo Switch version is planned for release by mid-2018.
Gameplay and story
Hyper Light Drifter is a 2D action role-playing game fashioned after The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past, rendered in a pixelated style comparable to Superbrothers: Sword & Sworcery EP. The player controls the Drifter, a character that has access to technology that has long been forgotten by the inhabitants of the game's world and is suffering from an unspecified illness. The story concept was inspired by lead developer Alex Preston's heart disease, and has been likened by others to Studio Ghibli's Castle in the Sky, while Preston cites the studio's Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind as inspiration for the game's world.
The Drifter is equipped with an energy sword, but can gain access to other modules that expand their weapon and ability arsenal. These often require power from rare batteries scattered around the world. Weaponry includes traditional console role-playing game archetypes, including long-range guns and area attacks.Rather than scavenging ammunition from the game world to load the player's guns, the player's ammunition instead charges when hitting enemies and objects with the energy sword. The player faces increasingly difficult monsters, both in number and ability, requiring the player to hone their tactics to succeed in the game. Preston's goal was to replicate the experience of playing on the SNES, noting that the unit had "amazing, almost perfect games designed for limited environments" which he challenged himself to simulate in Hyper Light Drifter. One feature of SNES games that Preston captured is that there is no spoken dialog, placing more emphasis on the game's music and visuals to tell a story.
Development
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Un jeu d'action - RPG en 2D dans la veine des meilleurs 8 bits et 16 bits classiques, par le studio Heart Machine.
Hyper Light Drifter est un jeu d'action - RPG en 2D dans la veine des meilleurs 8 bits et 16 bits classiques, avec une mécanique et des dessins modernisés sur une échelle beaucoup plus grande, dans lequel le joueur explore un monde en ruine vaste et superbe, criblé de dangers inconnus et de technologies perdues.
Explorez un superbe et vaste monde en ruine criblé de dangers inconnus et de technologies perdues. Inspiré par des cauchemars et des rêves semblables.
Hyper Light Drifter est un jeu d'action- RPG en 2D dans la veine des meilleurs 8 bits et 16 bits classiques, avec une mécanique et des dessins modernisés sur une échelle beaucoup plus grande.
Les Drifters (NdT : personnes / aventuriers qui se déplacent continuellement de place en place, sans se fixer) de ce monde sont des collectionneurs de savoirs oubliés, de technologies perdues et d'histoires brisées. Notre Drifter est hanté par une maladie insatiable, voyageant plus loin dans les terres de Buried Time (NdT : Temps engloutis / enterrés), imprégnées de sang et d'argent dans l'espoir de découvrir un moyen de calmer la vicieuse maladie. Les échos d'un passé sombre et violent des ères révolues résonnent et il ne peut s'empêcher de les écouter.
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Hyper Light Drifter est un jeu vidéo de type action-RPG en 2D développé par Heart Machine. Il est sorti en mars 2016 sur Windows, OS X, Linux, en juillet 2016 sur PlayStation 4, Xbox One et est prévu pour une date indéterminée sur Ouya.
Le jeu rend hommage aux jeux vidéo des ères 8-bit et 16-bit des années 1980 et du début des années 1990. Alex Preston affirme qu'il tire son inspiration des titres The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past et Diablo II.
Pour financer le projet, Alex Preston a lancé une campagne Kickstarter dans le but de réunir 27 000 $, la campagne termine avec plus de 600 000 $ de soutien, permettant à Heart Machine d'ajouter au projet des versions consoles du jeu et d'engager plusieurs autres artistes et programmeurs pour s'ajouter à l'équipe.
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Généralités
Hyper Light Drifter est un action-RPG influencé par The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past, Secret of Mana ou encore Diablo II. Le joueur incarne Drifter, un personnage ayant accès à des technologies avancées depuis longtemps oubliées par les résidents du monde dans lequel il évolue. Drifter doit rechercher à travers les ruines d'une ancienne civilisation pour trouver le remède à la maladie dont il souffre. Alex Preston, concepteur du jeu, dit s'être inspiré du film Nausicaä de la vallée du vent et de ses propres problèmes de santé.
Le Drifter porte avec lui un sabre d'énergie et plusieurs autres armes auxquelles il a accès après avoir retrouvé des piles pour les recharger. Au cours du voyage, le joueur doit affronter des ennemis de plus en plus nombreux et puissants, obligeant ce dernier à optimiser ses tactiques d'attaque et de défense. Selon Alex Preston, le défi dans la conception de Hyper Light Drifter est de se restreindre aux mêmes limites auxquelles étaient livrés les artistes lors de l'élaboration des jeux de SNES durant le début des années 1990, jugeant que cette limite imposée a engendré un environnement où la musique et l'art visuel remplacent les dialogues parlés.
Modes de jeu
Hyper Light Drifter se joue en solo, toutefois un mode multijoueur fut promis lors de la campagne de financement Kickstarter de l'automne 2013 pour générer plus de souscriptions. Par contre, lors du développement du ludiciel, le travail sur ce mode fut suspendu pour concentrer les efforts sur la campagne solo. Le 27 avril 2016, une version bêta du mode multijoueur est offerte pour que les joueurs puissent l'évaluer afin de l'annexer ultérieurement à la version commerciale de Hyper Light Drifter.
Développement
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💡️ Commentaires généraux:
Le studio est parvenu à lever les fonds nécessaire sur le site Kickstarter, il est à présent disponible à la vente.
Kickstarter est un site de sponsoring de projets permettant - en ce qui concerne les jeux, aux joueurs et aux développeurs de financer le développement de jeux sans le carcan des maisons d'édition. Les studios obtiennent le pré-financement de leur production, les joueurs bénéficient d'avantages proportionnels au montant de leur participation (tarif avantageux, personnalisations, ...) sans garantie de résultat.
Date de sortie :
Financement bouclé mi octobre 2013 (645K$ sur Kickstarter).
Le jeu est sorti sur Steam le 31/03/2016.