Crafting Hyper Light Breaker's watercolour-washed cel-shaded world

Hyper Light Breaker environment art; concept art from a video game
(Image credit: Heart Machine)
Hyper Light Breaker details

Crafting the characters of video game Hyper Light Breaker; a group of stylised game characters

(Image credit: Heart Machine / Arc Games)

Developer Heart Machine
Publisher
Arc Games
Release
Late summer
Platform Unreal Engine 4
Formats PC (Steam), consoles TBC

Upcoming co-op rogue-lite game Hyper Light Breaker is a follow-up to 2016's Hyper Light Drifter, a video game inspired by creator Alx Preston's medical conditions related to congenital heart disease and delivered in a beautiful pixel art style.

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Editor, Digital Arts & 3D

Ian Dean is Editor, Digital Arts & 3D at Creative Bloq, and the former editor of many leading magazines. These titles included ImagineFX, 3D World and video game titles Play and Official PlayStation Magazine. Ian launched Xbox magazine X360 and edited PlayStation World. For Creative Bloq, Ian combines his experiences to bring the latest news on digital art, VFX and video games and tech, and in his spare time he doodles in Procreate, ArtRage, and Rebelle while finding time to play Xbox and PS5.