is really cool, is 3d under the hood, then they make a 2d pixel render over.

article of gamasutra about the gaming pipeline of dead cells https://www.gamedeveloper.com/production/art-design-deep-div...

Haxe (the language Heaps uses) was initially written by Nicolas Cannasse, who worked at Motion Twin for a while; not sure if he was part of the team that did Dead Cells. So it's not a big surprise.

Still, that's a big +1 for Heaps/Haxe then Dead Cells runs fantastically.

EDIT: Ah, looking into it more Nicolas also founded Shiro Games who made Evoland, Northgard, etc. So it might just be following him around (not to disparage it, still looks great).