

In this game, you’ll be introduced to the protagonist, Rei, as she skates up a flight of stairs. With Heart Machine’s latest game, Solar Ash, the concept of movement is taken to another level.Īfter the immense critical success of Heart Machine’s first game, Hyper Light Drifter, Alx Preston (Game Director of Heart Machine) decided to take things up a notch and work on a 3D platformer game which they eventually named Solar Ash. I guess the brilliance in great movement is that it is supposed to be unnoticeable if it is done perfectly. This is why in games like GTA V, Spider-Man and RDR 2, the open worlds are so fun to traverse.


In open-world games, the fluidity of movement is where everything starts as if the movement isn’t done well, the player won’t be incentivized to explore the world. No one really notices or talks about the movement/traversal mechanics in a game until they play a game where it feels really janky. Out of all of the mechanics involved in a videogame, movement is probably the one that is most taken for granted.
