Hytale lead says "it's a damn miracle we were able to salvage" the once-canceled Minecraft-like: "It should have taken years to fix, but within weeks, we got the game into a playable, fun state"

Hytale.

Hytale, the now creator-owned blocky sandbox RPG currently undergoing some deep-seated maintenance to become fully playable, is a rare story of success against all odds in the games industry. Simon Collins-Laflamme, co-director of Hytale and founder of Hypixel, took some time to address the exhaustive work going on to make the game worthwhile on Twitter.

"It's a damn miracle we were able to salvage Hytale," he says. "It was barely playable. All basics were broken. Camera, movement, combat, crafting, building, gameloop, sounds, rendering. Everything, everything was wrong."