Making Hyper Light Breaker's fizzy 80s anime character designs

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

Hyper Light Breaker details

(Image credit: Heart Machine / Arc Games)

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

Anyone who played Hyper Light Drifter fell in love with its colourful, impressionistic world rendered in tiny pixels. Our minds filled in the gaps and embellished every angular, geometric ruin and colour-washed 8-bit forest. With follow-up Hyper Light Breaker, set in a 3D open world, developer Heart Machine is colouring inside the lines for us.