I am so proud of this community to give us the strength and motivation to post this. The team is locked in and I hope you are ready for what is to come. ๐ฅฐhytale.com/news/2025/11/hโฆ
Crazy to see Hytale cancelled. I left 1 year and 2 months ago and moved on from the challenges there. This is reviving a lot of memories: good and bad ones.
Hearing "it wasn't feature creep"... Honestly I can only smash my face in the table if anyone believes that. Systems that were already far ahead of Minecraft at the time were completely re-invented to make them "even better" resulting fuck all
My wife asked me how my day was and I couldn't stop smiling. Hytale is and was a great idea and I never stopped believing in the vision we had back in 2018. If by any chance this timeline happens, it will be an absolutely wild ride and a massive opportunity to get involved.
To clarify, it would require a LOT less money to get to something that could be released in ยซย Very Early Accessย ยป with temporarily removed features. We could just get the community involved ASAP in modding / bug reports / feature requests / crowdfunding and find ways to use
Thomas has carried the Artstyle of Hytale from Day 1 and was always so pragmatic to work with. You are so talented and you shaped my understanding of a great artist. I am so glad to have worked with you and learned from you.
I poured 10 years of my life into making #Hytale look and feel. I gave every bit of soul and time I had for this project and I don't think I can describe how sad I am. I have a really hard time coping with the cancelation. Please be kind with our team. We tried our best.
It absolutely ruined my health. During my employment at Hypixel Studios I became more and more depressed until I struggled to get out of bed. I became more and more unhealthy and unhappy. Once I left I turned it all around within a year. Compare my 2023 and yesterday photos :)
A lot of the good memories I had with Hytale were when we worked in the chaos phase. We built the legacy engine while being naturally aligned on the mission. We were working together so well that every single week we showed our progress to each other in the one monday meeting.
Today was my last day at @Hypixel and @Hytale as a the Senior Engineering Manager / Principal Engineer for Gameplay. After 10 years of operating under the Hypixel banner I feel the urge to move on.
The acquisition by Riot Games has been such an amazing and much needed development in our company's history. I'd like to give some personal thoughts as someone working on Hytale and Hypixel for 6 years. Thread ๐
Spent 2 years on this until I called the code final. It was a really fun project working together with the worldteam to make a tool specifically tailored to what they wanted/needed to deliever what the game design demands.
I am certain we could have hit the market with Hypixel style minigames + modding suite but without a story / campaign in 2021 if production and design didn't start to torpedo the potential due to their unrealistic ambitions.