Following the closure of Hypixel Studios and the cancellation of Hytale, founder “Simon” (who left the project in 2019) seems to be preparing to take the game back into his own hands. While there’s still a long way to go to acquire the rights from Riot, the main interested party has laid out his plan well.
Simon has once again given his views on the possible return of Hytale on X. The aim is to enable players to test the game as quickly as possible.
"Yep. It’s not gonna be perfect or what Hytale is suppose to be Day 1, that’s ok. The cancellation might be a blessing in disguise to reset expectations and break the curse of perfectionism. If we can get the IP, of course."
"FYI, a lot of content would be cut early on, just to be able to release in some sort of alpha/in-dev version and get funding that way to complete the vision. I don’t know the state of the game right now, but one thing for sure is we could release it with just the creative mode to begin with. Get the community involved ASAP in shared/open source while we finish the work on adventure/minigames/etc."
"This is a long term project, would be taken care of for many years. […] "
"Spend few months evaluating the project, pure engineering work, nothing new would be added during that time. Clean up and make sure things works properly and understand the state of each features. Potentially fix some critical features in the process to achieve a basic game loop."
"After evaluation, we would write up a roadmap, share with public, then start hiring artists/engineers to execute roadmap. The Just launch roadmap."
"Would the game loop be fun? Probably not the best, does not matter for this phase. Just need to get it out, then make it super fun over-time. The beauty of block games like this is that they don’t rely entirely on survival/adventure features to be fun, you can just build/gather with friends and have fun as is, at least initially! Add creative mode as well and it would satisfy the needs of many."
