Dusk wasn't originally supposed to get a full graphical remaster just five years after launch. In its initial reveal at the 2022 PC Gaming show, New Blood head honcho Dave Oshry called it an update "nobody asked for, so we're doing it anyway," and the "HD" moniker for the tastefully updated weapon and enemy models was really more of a bit. Hell, the guy who made most of it wasn't even a professional developer at that point: "I saw the trailer for Dusk HD and was like, 'Oh, haha, Dusk but HD, what a joke,'" David "Garumin" Bonin told me in a recent interview.
"But then I just had this gut feeling: what if it wasn't a joke? What if it was more than just a tech demo for an SDK? What if we went all in, and that started this weird little obsession where I set aside my own personal projects, and I just started digging through."
