Ok, I hope we can split the wheat from the chaff without haggle. I'm corrected, "Hypixel" is the name of a server, not a mod. So who was the guys that started Hypixel Studios and Hytale? Maintaining a server doesn't seem like the immediate precursor to starting a whole new game.
> So who was the guys that started Hypixel Studios and Hytale?
The same people who run Hypixel minecraft server?
They didn't just "maintain" a server.
They developed custom mods and solutions, over 40+ minigames, custom plugins. Like I said, its more of a "custom experience".
It is this knowledge, not "maintaining a server", which is the precursor to starting a whole new game.
For example, Icefrog was involved in the creation of the original DotA gamemode for WC3. Valve, 10 years later, hired him when they were working on DotA2. It was not his experience running a custom game mode in WC3 for this hiring - it was the custom experience he helped create
Ok, I was just choosing you to respond to for all the flack I was getting for calling it a mod and not a server. You are circling back to my original point of confusion - that these guys where a mod community and not just a server.