After ten years of development, my Minecraft-inspired sandbox game Hytale cancelled

Hytale was cancelled by Riot Games and Hypixel Studios just ten years after the project began development.

Aaron Donaghey, co-founder of hypixel Studios, is known as Noxy by the Hytale community Posted on Hytale. “Today, I shared some incredibly tough news with the Hypixel Studios team: We’re ending development Hytale and start the process of ending the hypnosis chamber in the next few months. “But after years of pushing, adapting and exploring every possible path, it's clear that we can't bring Hytale to life in a way that really delivers its promise.”

Hytale is an independent game project from hyverixel,popular Minecraft The server of the Hytale development team is named. It's planned to be a Minecraft Sandbox game similar to mine, it's more Modder-friendly, combined with more RPG elements and offers players a lot of mini games to try with the basic Sandbox experience. To better understand the ambitions of the project, you should watch the developer diary, which was released in 2021.

Noxy's post about Hytale cancellation essentially admits that it's too ambitious for the studio. This can be seen in the project's long development schedule. The roots of the project have been developing Back to 2015and Riot game gains thrust In 2020, no release.

“It's obvious that we need more time to bring it to a place where we can support an ambitious gaming vision,” Noxy admitted. Hytale. Hypixel Studios and Riot decided to cancel the game altogether.

As a result, Hypixel Studios will be shut down, although Noxy said Hypixel developers “support a lot of severance and resources to help them find what’s next.” As for the Hypixel Server on which Hytale is based, Noxy's message explains that it runs separately from Hypixel Studios and will not be affected by Hytale's cancellation.