Just the things that we didn’t do better at first, we learned from. It’s not to say that there aren’t things that we could have done better. “Sure, there are plenty of things that, at the time, a tiny insight would be nice to have done them perfectly, or not to have fucked up, but I wouldn’t have learned some lessons otherwise. “I don’t know if I would really change anything about development because a lot of it was such a huge learning experience that was really valuable and I took those lessons to heart,” Preston says. In fact, ‘no regrets’ is a recurring theme when talking to the pair. Although it was not what I was seeking, the timing really worked out.”Īs for Dief’s game? Long dead, but he has no regrets. I was like ‘oh man, this is so beautiful’ and I hooked up with Alx. I was working on a very different type of action RPG. It was not at all what I had said I was looking for. So I had emailed all of Glitch City the day of the Hyper Light Drifter Kickstarter launch, asking ‘Hey does anyone know of any short term gigs?’ When Alx reached out the Kickstarter had already started to have really strong momentum. “I had judged that I needed a few months of runway, because it takes time to build those campaigns, to make sure I was financially soluble. “We had founded Glitch City and I was deep in my own indie endeavour and was considering doing a crowdfunding campaign of my own,” Dief says. The majority of the Heart Machine team that worked on Hyper Light Drifter came from this collective and even though Dief was a founding member, it was only through serendipity that he ended up working on the game at all. “We were doing that for a few months and we were always discussing the idea of a co-working space.” “Glitch started for me out of our garage, hosting art events or working nights where we’d invite people over,” he says. Conversation started around whether we had enough people to actually rent a space.”īefore renting an office together, the group worked out of Preston’s house. There was some breaking point where people were getting tired of not having power outlets. “There was a monthly jam called Strawberry Jam that was run out of coffee shops, and that’s how I met a number of other people who ended up coming around the table to start Glitch City. “We would come together as a group of various types of media creators,” Dief says.
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