Panic Button talks about their work on Torchlight II, keeping portable players/Switch Lite owners in mind

Panic Button are the masters of the Switch port. They've brought games over to the platform that some people would have thought impossible beforehand. Their most recent work is Torchlight II, which is available right now. In an interview with USGamer, Panic Button head of production Dan Hernberg talks about the unique challenges the team had to tackle with Torchlight II, as well as the focus on Switch Lite and portable players in general.

"The majority of the work wasn't necessarily-you know on other projects like Doom and Wolfenstein, the technical aspect of getting it rendering- most of it was spent overhauling the UI from the ground up so that it felt like it was a native console title. It was a challenge, but in a different way than some of our other things that Panic Button's known for. We think it'll really shine on all of the platforms.

We definitely realize that a lot of people, maybe the majority of people, play their Switches on-the-go. Whenever Panic Button works on a Switch game, portability, not only for gameplay but how the game looks, is super-important to us. Torchlight 2 is no exception. When we redesigned the UI from the ground up, we had the Switch in mind and obviously, the Switch Lite. We've already optimized it for the Switch Lite. If people have a Switch Lite and pick up Torchlight 2, it should feel really good, even though it's a smaller screen and there's less real estate. Most of us around the office when we're doing Switch testing, we're playing in handheld mode."