The promised level editor for Hotline Miami 2 [official site] is “pretty close to completion”, developers Dennaton Games have explained in a a recent blog post. The editor looks to be pretty full-featured, allowing you to create anything from a single level to a full campaign with cutscenes.
Folks have been scrappily making their own levels for a while by hacking into the game’s disabled editor, a method which leaves it all a bit glitchy and crashy. Roll on, official tools!
Ah man, this one’s pretty good. A while back the producers at ComplexTV flew out to London to interview the reclusive developers of Hotline Miami [official site]. You can watch the results below: A just-about 30 minute-long documentary telling the tale of how two Swedish hipsters created one of the greatest indie games of all time. One of the guys cries in it, so you know it’s good.
What happens when you combine Hotline Miami with Superhot? SUPERHOTline Miami, obviously. As the name implies, the browser game combines the reflex-driven topdown shooting of Hotline Miami with the movement hook of Superhot. That is, enemy bullets only move when the player does.
I only played until the second level (I was starting to receive resentful glances from my co-workers) but it's pretty fun, despite the barebones presentation. It's the work of indie developer Florian Dufour, who knocked it out one evening when he was bored (he's currently working on a game called Fast Travel: A Speedrun Journey).
You can play SUPERHOTline Miami in your browser here, and there's the option to download it, too. It follows the playable April Fools joke SUPERQOT, which adds the Superhot twist to Quake.
Adam’s already run his review of Dennaton’s sequel to neon-hued tactical murder party Hotline Miami, but while he’s a big fan, Hotline Miami 2: Wrong Number hasn’t been met with universal praise. Alec, more cautious about the game, joins Adam to discuss what may and may not be deliberate about its design choices, its bewildering story and its bugs.
Prior to the launch of Hotline Miami 2, the system requirements indicated that the game would run under Windows XP. That turned out to be incorrect, which was bad news for gamers who preordered it on the assumption that it would. But that's been fixed now in the form of an unofficial patch that brings the new game to the old OS.
Created by Steam user Silent, the patch requires a certain amount of computer smarts: You'll need to unzip the archive into your Hotline Miami 2 directory, then run the included batch file, which patches the startup file with a custom .DLL making it bootable under XP. Detailed instructions are provided, and honestly, if you're reading this site then the great likelihood is that you won't have any trouble with it.
The instructions recommend that the game be run in OpenGL mode rather than DirectX 9, which can only run in borderless windowed mode and is apparently very crash-prone. The patch will also have to be re-applied every time the game is updated.
Windows XP is pretty grossly outdated by now, but as the Steam Hardware and Software survey indicates, it's holding on to life surprisingly well: It represents only a tiny slice of the OS pie, but it's neck-and-neck with Windows 8 64-bit and has more users than Windows Vista 32 and 64-bit combined. It's too bad that Hotline Miami 2 didn't fare particularly well in our review, but even so props to Silent for making this happen for those that needed it.
