Hytale will also include a suite of creation tools to encourage its own mod community of all different levels of experience to form and share their content with the world. The difference here is that Hytale includes quests and adventures created by Hypixel studios to discover, as well as minigames reminiscent of those found in the Hypixel Minecraft servers. It’s called Hytale, and it’s a creation-focused sandbox akin to Minecraft, with a procedurally generated world, dungeons to explore, monsters to fight, equipment to craft, and roleplaying-style progression. The actual game that Hypixel Studios is working on continues their mod-focused approach. "Hypixel Studios marks this mod team's transformation from a group of modders into a fully-fledged, proper games studio." It’s a transformation that could be as big as other recent success stories, such as Brendan Greene’s success with PLAYERUNKNOWN's Battlegrounds arising from his Battle Royale mods, and the resurgence of ARMA II with the DayZ mod. Named after the server network which saw them soar to rising popularity, Hypixel Studios, marks this mod team’s transformation from a group of modders into a fully-fledged, proper games studio. Instead, Hypixel is targeting a general 2021 window for the game to be playable by everyone.Big news this week as the team behind one of the most popular mod-focused Minecraft server networks, Hypixel, announces the formation of a new games studio along with their first project. Update: After publication, a Riot Games representative contacted to say that the company's original statement of November 2021 as the target date to make Hytale open to the public was mistaken. With the acquisition, Hytale becomes the latest project in Riot's suddenly extensive slate of games.Īfter nearly a decade with only League of Legends to its name, Riot last year unveiled six new projects simultaneously, including a spin-off of its hit MOBA, a free-to-play strategy card game, a fighting game, and a character-based shooter.Įarlier this year, it also announced a tabletop gaming division with a pair of projects in the works to start. The studio expects to make the game widely available by November of 2021. Hytale is currently in closed beta with more than 2.5 million players having signed up to test the game. Riot said Hypixel will keep its existing structure, but with a permanent QA and administrative office to be opened in Derry~Londonderry, Northern Ireland. Now, as they prepare to enter the next chapter, we're thrilled to take our partnership to the next level through this acquisition." "Over the last 18 months, we've been fortunate to advise Hypixel Studios as they build toward their vision for evolving a game genre that reaches an incredibly diverse range of players around the globe. "We've known the team behind Hypixel Studios for several years, and from the start they've been the kind of visionaries that we aspire to support a passionate studio committed to delivering a groundbreaking, genre-defining experience for players," Riot president Dylan Jadeja said. Hytale has its roots in the Minecraft modding community Riot was already familiar with Hypixel, having been a key investor when the studio was founded in 2018. Riot Games is expanding its development system again, this time with the acquisition of Hypixel Studios.įounded in 2018 by a group of Minecraft community modders, Hypixel's debut project is another community-driven sandbox game, Hytale.
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