In the present day we’ve a serious announcement to make about the way forward for Hypixel Studios. Simon and Noxy have every written letters to the group to disclose the following steps that we’ll be taking as a group, and to clarify what this implies for Hytale itself.
In the present day, we’re making a serious announcement about the way forward for Hypixel Studios – and taking an enormous step ahead in our journey from modders to skilled sport builders.
Should you’ve been following our improvement updates over the course of the final yr, you’ll know that the success of the Hytale announcement modified all the pieces for us. It each raised the stakes and opened up a world of alternatives for our group.
We’re immensely grateful for the keenness and creativity of the rising Hytale group, and we’re dedicated to delivering a sport that lives as much as your expectations. Which means doing all the pieces we are able to to ‘degree up’ as a studio, from bringing in new expertise to bettering our processes to in search of out companions who perceive our mission.
The success of the trailer opened many doorways for us within the video games trade. We’ve had quite a lot of curiosity from potential associate firms, and whereas this has been very thrilling we’ve additionally been cautious about how we method every alternative. It’s completely important to us that we act in the perfect curiosity of our group, our mission, and our gamers.
With that in thoughts, right here’s the large information: Hypixel Studios is being acquired by Riot Video games as an unbiased studio. We’ll proceed to function in the identical manner as we’ve earlier than, however Riot will turn out to be our dad or mum firm and we’ll acquire entry to their experience and assets. This implies a much bigger price range for Hytale, extra safety for our group, and advisory assist from an organization that is aware of tips on how to launch and function profitable, long-running video games.
Please be aware that this doesn’t have an effect on the Hypixel Minecraft server or the group at Hypixel Inc in any respect. This acquisition solely applies to Hypixel Studios.
Noxy will take my place as the brand new CEO of Hypixel Studios – I hope you’ll be a part of me in congratulating him! Noxy has been on the coronary heart of Hytale for the reason that starting and I’ve each religion in him as a frontrunner who can be sure that this mission lives as much as our ambitions. We’ve been working on this manner in spirit for years and this modification will permit Noxy to degree up even additional. I’m actually excited to see one among my greatest associates proceed this unbelievable journey.
It’s been a protracted 9 years since Rezzus and I launched Hypixel as a complete, and it will permit us to step again and be in a greater place to advise the group each time they want it. I’ll be focusing my future efforts on my well being, household, and the Hypixel Minecraft server the place it began, whereas nonetheless making myself accessible to Noxy and the Hytale group as an advisor.
I’m vastly grateful to the groups at Hypixel Studios and Hypixel Inc, in addition to everybody who has supported Hytale, created content material about our mission, or performed a Hypixel minigame. This has been a tremendous journey, and I can’t wait to see what the long run holds for Hytale!
– Simon
As a lot of you’ll already know, our relationship with Riot Video games goes again a great distance. A number of group members, together with myself, are former Rioters – and after we based Hypixel Studios in 2018, we did so with the assist of an advisory group of angel traders that included Riot. Then, as now, we had been impressed by their enthusiasm for what we are attempting to attain, and grateful for his or her experience.
Even so, we haven’t entered into this new association calmly. Determining what sort of future partnership labored greatest for the group, the mission and the group was a protracted and generally difficult course of – in the event you had been questioning why it was mandatory for us to ‘go quiet’ for lengthy stretches of 2019, nicely, there’s your reply! These processes take quite a lot of time and cautious consideration to get proper.
Regardless of our present relationship with Riot, we’ve had many partnership alternatives current themselves to us. Riot has been encouraging as we’ve explored these different choices, and extremely respectful of our targets, our tradition, and our group. In the long run, that is without doubt one of the important causes that we’ve determined to enter into this new partnership. Riot understands the form of firm we’re and the form of sport we’re making, they usually’re invested in our success.
Final accountability for Hytale nonetheless falls to us. The identical group is creating the sport, and whereas we’ll be increasing and bettering our improvement pipeline, the core tradition of Hypixel Studios gained’t change. We need to create probably the most empowered participant group on the earth. By means of this new partnership with Riot, we’ll have entry to assets, tech and experience that may assist us in attaining this aim.
This additionally implies that we are able to arrange our first bodily workplace. The brand new Hypixel Studios HQ will open in my hometown of Derry~Londonderry, Northern Eire. At first, this new workplace goes to permit us to deliver on assist employees to assist with the daily working of the corporate, in addition to a brand new QA group to help with the continued improvement of Hytale. We anticipate loads of progress sooner or later, though nearly all of the group will proceed to contribute remotely from everywhere in the world. You’ll find extra info on open positions at Hypixel Studios on our jobs web page.
Personally, I couldn’t be happier to be starting this new chapter in our story as sport builders. Our dream has at all times been to develop from our origins as modders, to ‘go professional’ and set up ourselves as a fully-fledged sport improvement studio. Getting into into this partnership with Riot is a serious step for us in that regard, the decision to the journey that we’ve been on ever for the reason that Hytale trailer blew up in a manner that none of us might have anticipated.
We’ve spent a yr determining probably the most accountable strategy to safe the assets we have to ship the perfect sport we are able to make. Now that we’ve answered that query, we are able to deal with the actually essential half: ending the precise sport!
Within the meantime, we anticipate that you simply’re prone to have quite a lot of questions on this new partnership and what it means for Hytale. Please see the accompanying FAQ for extra info.
Thanks to all people who has contributed to the Hypixel server and Hytale over time – and to our group, whose continued assist of Hytale means all the pieces to us. We are able to’t wait to share the sport with you!
– Noxy
