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We love creating adventures with engaging stories in beautiful, vibrant worlds. Creators of the award-winning Hyper Light Drifter and Solar Ash. Working on Hyper Light Breaker. Based in LA with incredible team members across the globe.

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Hyper Light Breaker coming to Steam Early Access soon!

Enter the Overgrowth, a new land in the world of Hyper Light. Play alone or with friends to explore massive biomes, defeat brutal monsters, create new builds, survive the mysterious Crowns and overthrow the almighty Abyss King in this adventure from the creators of Hyper Light Drifter.

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Heart Machine is a deeply motivated and close-knit team located in Los Angeles. Our focus is gameplay that’s engaging, fluid and fun, while also building worlds through vibrant art, great stories and incredible sound design. We’re immensely excited to be creating things we love every day.

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Solar Ash

Journey through a surreal, vivid and highly stylized world filled with mystery, wild high-speed traversal, endearing characters, and massive enemy encounters.

The Void is calling…

Hyper Light Drifter

Echoes of a dark and violent past resonate throughout a savage land, steeped in treasure and blood. An action adventure RPG in the vein of the best 16 ­bit classics, with modernized mechanics and designs on a much grander scale.

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WILL TATE

LEAD ENVIRONMENT ARTIST

EMILY KATSKE

LEAD ANIMATOR

KIM BELAIR

CO-FOUNDER + CEO SWEET BABY

ALEX JOHNSON

SOUND DESIGNER


WOLFGANG TRAENKLE

ENVIRONMENT ARTIST

MAX KAUFMANN

SENIOR GAMEPLAY ENGINEER


TROUPE GAMMAGE

AUDIO LEAD

CHELSEA HASH

GAME DIRECTOR

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