Modders run Doom, Windows 95 and Hytale itself inside Hytale

Pcgamer reports that modders have already managed to run Doom, Windows 95, a classic version of Minecraft and even Hytale inside the newly launched Hytale, with iamcxv7 on X credited for several of the demonstrations and Tom's Hardware reporting the Windows 95 instance.

Those projects rely on Hypixel Studios making Hytale's server code eminently moddable: the game client itself can't be modded yet, but Hytale Modding says servers determine how the game and UI look. Strictly speaking the game code being run (Doom, Windows 95 or Hytale) executes externally on a server, with the client only handling rendering of the streamed output and player controls; in the Minecraft example the server streamed its output into Hytale's map system.

Whether any application could be run this way isn't clear, though the piece suggests that with fast servers and plenty of bandwidth it may be possible to stream many kinds of output into the game. The article adds that Hypixel's support for server modding has made Hytale a top choice for modders and that more variants and tweaks are likely by the time the game leaves early access.

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Tech, Hytale, Hypixel Studios, Doom, Minecraft