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HyTale just got cancelled, HyPixel studios winding down over the next few months (hytale.com)
submitted 1 week ago by popcar2@programming.dev to c/games@sh.itjust.works
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Can I be the first to say:

NNNNNNNNNNNOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!

I guess the writing was on the wall considering the game has been in development hell for many years, but I still look back at the original announcement trailer and think about how cool this game could have been. It was essentially sold as Minecraft but better - with proper combat, better exploration, powerful dedicated modding tools, and more. It was to be created by the creators of probably the biggest Minecraft server ever, which meant they understood the ins and outs of the game and what it needed to improve.

What a shame. At least we got Vintage Story.

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[–] mindbleach@sh.itjust.works 14 points 1 week ago (5 children)

Moreover: changes that big go in the next game.

If you decide to roll your own engine, from the start... awesome. Especially when content-creation tools aren't a huge deal, like if your game world is procedurally generated. Understand your scope, steal freely from existing libraries, avoid wasting your artists' time.

If you try to switch engines mid-development, you are fucked. John Romero couldn't make that shit work, just going from Quake to Quake II. Daikatana could have shipped before Half-Life and only missed colored lighting. Instead it's a cautionary tale. Duke Nukem Forever didn't even ship. They had a nearly-complete game, several times, but threw those out and started over.

You don't have to throw anything out, to start a new project from scratch. Ship the damn game. Put different tech in the next one. If you don't ship, there won't be a next one.

[–] themoken@startrek.website 5 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Duke Nukem Forever did ship... Years late and it was a total mess of a decade's worth of gimmick mechanics that killed the franchise, but it did make it out the door.

Still fits as a cautionary tale about switching engines, I just had to double check I didn't hallucinate that game.

[–] mindbleach@sh.itjust.works 10 points 1 week ago (2 children)

A game with that title shipped. I don't think it was, in any sense, the same project. Not even as a ship-of-Theseus situation. A different studio started from scratch.

[–] themoken@startrek.website 4 points 1 week ago

Oh, I see what you mean, fair enough.

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