Dennaton had been adamant for over a year now they were finished with Hotline Miami. A reveal trailer posted on YouTube in September of 2015 currently sits around 50,000 views, with dozens of excited and supportive comments underneath it.
It's worth considering exactly how much attention Midnight Animal had got at this point. In June 2016, Yan delayed Midnight Animal indefinitely, citing personal problems in a now deleted Steam post. After the breakdown of a serious romantic relationship, Yan made several attempts on his own life. This pressure spiralled into long periods of isolation. The backlash had erupted minutes after the update went live.ġ1 months prior, Yan had failed his first semester at university, losing the scholarship that served as a shield against his parent's threats to cut financial support if he took classes on "something useless". This sense of accomplishment, Yan says, was "soundly destroyed" when he returned to his dorm 20 minutes later and began to read the comments. He fires it off finally at 4am and immediately leaves his dorm, walking along the river he can see from his window to a nearby parking lot where, for the first time in several months, he allows himself to feel like he's accomplished something big. Yan has been up for around three days at this point, catching short snatches of sleep in between preparing the update.
A transformation from what its creator describes as a "comically dark, pseudo-cyberpunk revenge story" to something far more personal, philosophical and poignant. What the community isn't yet aware of is the drastic creative reimagining the project has undergone in the time since they last saw an update. He has permission from developers Dennaton Games to use the source code, and an entire community of engaged and supportive Hotline Miami fans behind him.
The project has grown from a Mod DB page and some well received YouTube trailers to being greenlit on Steam. It's four in the morning on 18th February 2017, and a 19-year-old modder and writer named Spencer Yan is sitting in his college dorm at his computer, with a server full of Discord users eager for him to drop the latest update for Midnight Animal, a total conversion mod and original story built upon the bloodstained, bullet-riddled blueprints of Hotline Miami.Īt this point, Yan has worked on Midnight Animal for over a year.
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