"I say, 'Oh wow, you've got 20,000 users so far.' They're like, 'No, we've got 20,000 users online right now.' I'm like, 'What?'" he laughs. "They're like, 'Yeah, we've got 20,000 users'," Donaghey says. It was here that he met the Hypixel team. Part of the job was attending conferences such as Minecraft Expo, which was part of Insomnia Gaming Festival. He ended up getting a job at game server host Multiplay helping with customer support as, in his words, "the Minecraft guy at the company". Indeed, it drew in Donaghey, too: an indie developer and a Minecraft player since beta, a kind of server-slash-social experiment called CivCraft "opened my eyes to the possibilities of things that could be done in Minecraft". Unsurprisingly, in hindsight, these short, fast, rewarding and even social minigames soon became the main draw of the server. The solution? Introduce short, entertaining minigames to keep people occupied: snowball fights, or Quake homages, or even a curious thing called 'Hunger Games', inspired by a new film series, where you'd battle to be the last player standing in an ever-shrinking arena. There were sometimes hundreds of people queuing in the lobby waiting for their adventure to begin. It undeniably changes things." From Hypixel to Hytale "I don't want to come across like, 'Oh, we're burdened with all this interest'," he laughs. The eyes of thousands of players, and some of the biggest players in the game industry, are now very much upon the project he's leading. 500,000, I'm happy, and a million, I'm like, super happy." At the end of the first week, the trailer hit 11 million views. "In my head, you know, anything below 250,000, I'm disappointed. "We had an internal poll on how many views," Donaghey says. But the trailer – which showed off features such as a realistically lit and animated world, adventure and minigame modes, extensive modding, an in-game animation tool and even live scripting – immediately struck a chord. Designed with creative players in mind, Hytale’s engine supports everything from block-by-block castle construction to scripting and customization delivered using easy to use and powerful tools.His fear was that Hytale – a game with more than a passing resemblance to Minecraft, created by many people with a background in running a successful Minecraft server – would be dismissed as yet another title destined for the ever-growing blockgame graveyard. Hytale - Announcement Trailer What is Hytale?Įmbark on a journey of adventure and creativity! Hytale combines the scope of a sandbox with the depth of a roleplaying game, immersing players in a procedurally generated world where teetering towers and deep dungeons promise rich rewards. Is a block game built around three pillars: going on adventures in a procedurally-generated fantasy world, playing minigames with the community, and building and sharing mods and custom content using an accessible set of browser-based and in-game tools.įounded by veterans of the Hypixel mod server (holder of four Guinness World Records including ‘most popular independent server for a videogame’), Hytale represents the culmination of the team’s desire to establish themselves as a fully-fledged game development studio. Hytale by Hypixel Studios creators of the most famous Minecraft server,
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