Hytals, the Minecraft competitor, announced in 2018, is canceled and his developer closes.
Hypiksel Studios announced that an ambitious minecraft game, supported by Riot Games, ended development, and the studio itself was in the process of finishing.
Hytale was announced in December 2018 YouTube. Here is the official blurb, just like then:
Hytals combine the range of the sandbox with the depths of the rook game, immersing players into a procedural world, in which crunchy towers and deep dungeons promise wealthy awards during their adventures. Hytals support everything, from block structure to scripts and minigame creation, supplied with effortless -to -use and powerful tools.
The excitement around the hytals was fueled by the experience of the programmers themselves, who co -founder Hypixel, one of the most influential minecraft servers in the world. Riot Games, a producer of League of Legends, invested in a project and finally bought a studio.
However, the hydrale dream is over. “This is not the result of any of our hypixel or in riot-reads”, a statement attributed to the co-founder of Noxy Published on the Hytale website Reads. “But after years of pushing, adapting and discovering every possible path, it became clear that we cannot revive Hydrau in a way that really satisfied his promise.”
So what went wrong? According to Noxy, the technical ambitions of hytals became more elaborate, and even after restarting the engine, the game “said that the hytals were still not as far as necessary.”
“It became clear that we need much more time to get to a place where she could support the ambitious vision of the game,” Naxy continued.
Options, such as reducing the scope and pushing the game, were rejected because “would mean a compromise in what made hytals special”. “It would not be a game we decided to do,” Noxy explained. “And that wouldn’t be the game you deserve.”
As for the riots, he tried to find investors to save the project, but it looks like these efforts did not go anywhere. The affected staff receive “generous briefing and resources to help them find what will happen next.”
The cancellation will be confirmed only a few months later Hypiksel has released the Spring Development 2025where the studio revealed some of the progress he made during the first few months of the year. In the end, this revealed a recent figure, which she irritated at the end of 2023. New engine progress was caused with improvements.
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