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.
