Netflix's 'Castlevania' producer is adapting 'Hyper Light Drifter' as an animated TV series
Hey all! @adishankarbrand and I have been talking for a while about this: Hyper Light is becoming a TV show: https://t.co/wDMyFbl7j9
— Alx Preston | Heart Machine (@HeartMachineZ) March 28, 2019
The project appears to be in its early stages as the interview notes that "Preston and Shankar are actively reaching out to writers to lead the TV adaptation, and are still working on exactly how to translate Hyper Light Drifter’s gameplay experience to a non-interactive medium". The latter statement is particularly important given that the game was free of dialogue and relied heavily on environmental storytelling.
“The difference between a series and a game is vast in a lot of ways,” Preston said to Polygon. “Hyper Light as a game was pretty atmospheric and kind of overbearing at times. For a series, the question is: how do you sustain and keep your attention on a non-interactive run? Does it get really, really dark and serious? Does it have some levity?”
“There’s still a question of how much dialogue we really have, if any,” Preston further added. “Could it be a more silent series or would we have voice acting? Considering Hyper Light was wordless, there’s an idea there of how much that would carry over to to a show.”
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