9 years into development, one-time Minecraft challenger Hytale is checking that its new engine can actually run its own game
Jul. 30, 2024Hypixel wants to “verify that our engine [is] capable of supporting our gameplay”
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What that suggests to me is that developer Hypixel has spent the last eight to 12 months checking that the engine it built for its game is capable of actually hosting that game. That’s a sensible practice, but it strikes me that it’s one better reserved for the very start of development, and isn’t a process that should really be taking place nine years into the project. There’s still no real sense of when this game might be ready for public release, and while Hypixel says that “the wheels are starting to turn in earnest and Hytale is beginning to come to life around us once again,” there was apretty substantial sense that player interest had waned when we wrote about that Winter update eight months ago. With even its engine still not fully ready for its developers' internal testing phase, any sense that Hytale might have made a play against Minecraft seems like a pretty distant dream.
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