I hope you guys are having great holidays!
Today we are excited to give out some information about the game we have been working on.
First of all, a lot has changed in the past few months. The team has doubled in size, the budget has grown significantly from 750k USD to 3.6mil USD and a lot of potential partners (even competitors!) have shown great interest in our game. The future is looking more than legendary.
Production on the game is going extremely well - we're definitely far enough in that we can create a trailer, waiting just a bit longer though will make a big difference in how great we can make the first impression. I know some (pretty much all of you!) will be disappointed we couldn’t deliver a trailer this year, but you got to trust us on this one when we say it’s for the best for the game. At this point even sharing screenshots, videos or artwork could hurt the project on many levels that I will be able to talk about when we actually release the trailer.
Taking our time and ensuring that we only recruit the best onto the team is a luxury we can afford right now. Production started over a year ago and 8 months ago we felt so confident in-fact that we were able to increase the budget assigned to the game and made the team bigger!
To tell you a little bit about what our goal is. Our mission statement is "Empower the Community". It features technologies and innovations that we think are unlike any other game. To enable communities to use it in ways unrealized by any other project. The objective is to not only make a great game - but a place for communities to grow & flourish. The game of course features PVE, PvP and Modding tools, as you would expect from a game that we would make!
With a project scope so ambitious - we knew from day 1 that we wouldn't be able to do this entirely by ourselves. We are teaming up with some really exciting groups and will be announcing who some of those guys are pretty soon.
Approximately 50% of the Admins at Hypixel are working on the new game, we are going to keep roughly that ratio. It's very important to us that production on the Minecraft server continues as it does today. The cost to produce the new game stands at roughly 3.6 million USD over 3 years, and without your support - it just wouldn't be possible. The great news is that because of the success of the Hypixel Minecraft server - regardless of what happens to Minecraft playercounts and so on- we are able to complete the project no matter what.
We also know many of you will be eager to set up your identities. I'm very happy to reveal that we will have a name reservation process that will allow the Hypixel community as well as Content creators to reserve their IGNs. More details on that to follow around the same time the game is unveiled.
Many of the guys working on the game don't get a chance to interact with you on a daily basis like the Minecraft Server team does (they will be after we formally reveal the game) so I wanted to share with you the make up and list of the team. (Please note, many of these names are working on both projects at once!)
NinjaCharlieT | Art Team |
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Polina "Dr.Artist" | Art Team |
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Steampunkstein | Art Team |
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Xael | Art Team |
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Bilou84 | Client & Tools Team |
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Elisee | Client & Tools Team |
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Exe | Client & Tools Team
Mattht | Client & Tools Team
EricR | Gameplay Programmer
Inhaze | Gameplay Programmer |
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Slikey | Gameplay Programmer |
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Sphax | Gameplay Programmer |
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Hypixel | Production & Design Team |
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MooTV | Production & Design Team |
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NoxyD | Production & Design Team |
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Rezzus | Production & Design Team
Zumulus | Production & Design Team
AgentK | Server Team |
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Cryptkeeper | Server Team |
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ZeroErrors | Server Team |
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Oscar | Sound & Music |
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PxlPanda | Website & User Interface |
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Tylru | Website & User Interface |
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CptCharles | World Team
Darkaceness | World Team |
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Otium | World Team |
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Propzie | World Team |
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Raven Baxter | World Team |
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Roddan | World Team |
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Winghide | World Team |
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2017 promises to be a year of great change and excitement, not just for the new game project but for the Minecraft server too - with upcoming Projects like Infinity, New Games, Updates and so on. Plenty more tricks up our sleeves!
Looking forward to letting you guys know more about the New Game Project in the upcoming months. Hope you all had a Great Christmas & Best Wishes for the new year!
Edit: Since a couple of people are confused, this refers to a non Minecraft related game. A new game 