So, there is this newly released freeware game Half Line Miami. As you can tell from the title, it's a mix of Half Life and Hotline Miami. As soon as I heard it's ready I downloaded it, tried to play... and got a somewhat enigmatic (at least for me) message "Create WIC Factory Failed". Any ideas what's up, and how can fix it?

Windows Imaging Component (WIC) is not working. Firewall/antivirus is a pretty common cause.

Well, the game works for me. It's quite impressive actually, but the gameplay isn't interesting enough to keep me playing it for long.

I liked SuperHOTline Miami.
I am thinking to preorder SuperHOT on humble bundle as I enjoyed it's prototype.