A dev on Minecraft-like Hytale has already used its creative tools to make a homebrew side-scroller

Minecraft is as robust a platform for modding as it is anything else. Even Hytale, the long-awaited, standalone Minecraft-like due to release into early access Jan. 13, can have its origins traced back to one of the biggest custom Minecraft server networks around, Hypixel. Taking after its foremost inspiration, Hytale has ambitions to let players run wild with a suite of custom game creation tools—and the possibilities the team is showing off are tantalizing.

For instance, Hypixel Studios founder and CEO Simon Collins-Laflamme just showed off a brief snippet of a custom game on X. Far from the first-person survival fare you might expect, it’s a 2D side-scroller with impressive set dressing. Collins-Flaflamme said in his post that it was made by one of the game’s level designers, and “not a programmer!”