Employees

Hypixel Studios has over 40 **employees**, and Hypixel Inc has over 51. Some employees may work for both companies.

## List

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### Bruce Blair

* Twitter
* GitHub

Bruce Blair, also known as "AgentK", is a backend engineer at Hypixel Studios.

### Kevin Carstens

* Website
* Twitter

Kevin Carstens (born 27 April), also known as "Slikey", is a server engineer and world generation developer at Hypixel Studios. He spent two years developing the world generator for *Hytale*.

### Simon Collins-Laflamme

* Twitter
* LinkedIn

Simon Collins-Laflamme, also known as "hypixel", is the co-founder of Hypixel Inc and Hypixel Studios, and has been CEO of Hypixel Inc since January 2013. Previously, he was CEO of Hypixel Studios from December 2018 to April 2020. He is the co-founder and namesake of the Hypixel server.

### Aaron Donaghey

* Twitter
* LinkedIn

Aaron Donaghey (born 20 November), also known as "Noxy", has been CEO of Hypixel Studios since April 2020. Previously he was project lead of *Hytale* from December 2018 to April 2020, chief operations officer of Hypixel Inc from December 2015 to April 2020, he was operations manager at Hypixel Inc. from December 2014 to December 2015, and project manager of the Hypixel server from March 2014 to August 2014.

### Patrick Derbic

* LinkedIn

Patrick Derbic has been a producer and team lead of *Hytale* minigames at Hypixel Studios since May 2019. Before that he was a project team manager at Hypixel Inc. from September 2018 to May 2019 and a payments and fraud manager from July 2015 to September 2018. Derbic also worked for Riot Games from November 2011 to July 2015.

### Nicholas Drabsch

* Website
* Twitter
* GitHub
* LinkedIn

Nicholas Drabach, also known as "ZeroErrors", has been a senior software developer at Hypixel Studios since December 2018 and at Hypixel Inc. since March 2015.

### Kieran Fitzpatrick

* Twitter
* LinkedIn

Kieran J. Fitzpatrick is a sound designer at Hypixel Studios.

### Pierre Frick

* LinkedIn

Pierre Frick is the lead UI and UX artist at Hypixel Studios.

### Thomas Frick

* Website
* Twitter
* LinkedIn
* Instagram

Thomas Frick is the art director at Hypixel Studios.
Alongside working on *Hytale*, Thomas is also the art director for *Dungeon Rushers* and *Alcyon Infinity*.
He has also participated over ten game jams.

### Oscar Garvin

* Website
* Twitter

Oscar Garvin (born 1990; age 33 or 34), also known as "Oscastyle", is a music producer at Hypixel Studios. He composed each piece of the the game's official soundtrack. Garvin has worked at Hypixel Studios since February 2016.

### Nicolas Gauthier

* Twitter

Nicolas Gauthier, also known as "Bilou", is a developer at Hypixel Studios. He was previously a developer of CraftStudio which eventually lead to the creation of the *Hytale* Model Maker.

### Kyle Gilmore

* LinkedIn

Kyle Gilmore has been a talent acquisition specialist at Hypixel Studios since May 2020.

### Ioseff Griffith

* Website
* Twitter
* LinkedIn

Ioseff "Joe" Griffith has been an NPC and AI developer for *Hytale* since May 2018. In addition, he has been a freelance composer of Radiant Moon Audio Ltd since 2009 and a freelance writer since 2005. Previously he was content lead on game *Staxel* from 2017 to 2019.

### John Hendricks

* Twitter

John Hendricks has been a design director at Hypixel Studios since September 2020.

### Adam Hooper

* Website
* LinkedIn
* Instagram

Adam D. Hooper has been a level designer for Hypixel Inc. since September 2017.

### Nick Krecklow

* Website
* Twitter
* GitHub
* LinkedIn

Nick Krecklow, also known as "Cryptkeeper" is an engine and anti-cheat developer at Hypixel Studios, who has been a developer of *Hytale* since December 2018 and was previously a software developer at Hypixel Inc. from October 2013 to December 2019.

### James Lobb

* LinkedIn

James Lobb has been a minigame developer from Hypixel Inc. since October 2017.

### Polina Logado

* Website
* Twitter

Polina Logado is an artist at Hypixel Studios.

### Connor Linfoot

* Twitter
* LinkedIn

Connor Linfoot has been a software developer at Hypixel Inc. since June 2017.

### Rick Mann

* GitHub
* LinkedIn

Rick Mann, also known as "Riari", has been a developer at Hypixel Studios since December 2018 and at Hypixel Inc. since May 2017. Previously he co-founded MMOVault in January 2011 and was a web designer from 2005 to 2013.

### Élisée Maurer

* Twitter
* Instagram

Élisée Maurer (born 1989 or 1990) is a former game engine and game tools developer at Hypixel Studios. He has been the president of Sparklin Labs since January 2012; at Sparklin Labs he was a developer of CraftStudio from 2011 to 2015. CraftStudio eventually led to the creation of the *Hytale* Model Maker, with Maurer joining Hypixel Studios in February 2016 to help develop it. Maurer left Hypixel Studios on 31 March 2020.

### Sean McCafferty

* LinkedIn

Sean McCafferty has been a content producer at Hypixel Studios since December 2018 and was a content manager at Hypixel Inc. from April 2015 to December 2018. Very shortly after Aaron Donaghey “noxy” was give his CEO position he gave Sean the “COO” title thought to be because of, both their long professional history dating back to when Aaron started working with him in multiple different companies together starting at age 16-17 for Aaron

### Amber McIvor

* Website
* Twitter
* GitHub

Amber McIvor, also known as "Otium", is a tech artist at Hytale Studios who has been working on *Hytale* for since 2016.

### Tim Nadler

* LinkedIn

Tim Nadler is the project manager of Hypixel Inc. since March 2018 and Hypixel Studios since December 2018. Previously he did quality assurance and localization at Hypixel Inc. from August 2015 to March 2018 and systems administration from April 2013 to August 2015.

### Barry O'Donnell

* LinkedIn

Barry O'Donnell has been a player behavior developer at Hypixel Inc. since December 2014.

### Mewen Page

* Website
* Twitter
* GitHub
* Instagram

Mewen Page is a game developer at Hypixel Studios. From March to July 2014 he worked at Polm Studio on the game *Origami Challenge*. Afterwards he was a developer of the *Minecraft* server Epicube. From January 2017 to February 2018 he was a gameplay programmer of Unity. He has also created minigame mods for *Minecraft*. Mewen has been working on *Hytale* since May 2018.

### Radoslaw Pasternicki

* LinkedIn

Radoslaw Pasternicki has been a producer at Hypixel Inc. since March 2018. He has also been working in management positions at Riot Games since May 2013.

### Aaron Plancke

* Website
* Twitter
* LinkedIn

Aaron Plancke (born 18 April 1996) has been a senior software developer at Hypixel Inc since June 2015 and was a senior software developer at Hypixel Studios from December 2018 to April 2020.

### Matthew Sellers

* LinkedIn

Matthew Sellers has been a game developer at Hypixel Studios since September 2016. Prior to that he worked on CraftStudio, the precursor to the *Hytale* Model Maker, as a software developer for Sparklin Labs from July to September 2012.

### Caleb Schilling

* LinkedIn

Caleb Schilling has been a level designer for Hypixel Inc. since December 2014.

### Simon Schlüter

* Website
* Twitter
* GitHub

Simon Schlüter is a website and user interface designer at Hypixel Studios.

### Christopher Thursten

* LinkedIn

Christopher Thursten has been a writer, and publishing coordinator at Hypixel Studios since January 2019
and is a former staff member of PC Gamer, working in editing positions from May 2012 to May 2017.

### Philippe Touchette

* LinkedIn

Philippe Touchette, also known as "Rezzus", is the CFO and co-owner of Hypixel Inc. and co-founder of Hypixel Studios and the Hypixel server.

### Charlie Tran

* Twitter
* LinkedIn

Charlie Tran, also known as "NinjaCharlieT", had been the lead animator at Hypixel Studios since June 2016.

## References

1. ↑ "About" – Hytale.com.
2. ↑ a b c d "Jobs" – Hytale.com.
3. ↑ "Hypixel Inc: People" – LinkedIn.
4. ↑ Bruce Blair - AgentK (@AgentK20) – Twitter
5. ↑ Slikey, Kevin Carstens (@slikey\_dev) – Twitter
6. ↑ "Spent 2 years on this until I called the code final. It was a really fun project working together with the worldteam to make a tool specifically tailored to what they wanted/needed to deliver what the game design demands." – @slikey\_dev on Twitter, 4 January 2018
7. ↑ "Simon Collins-Laflamme - CEO / Co-Founder at Hypixel Studios Inc. and Hypixel Inc." – LinkedIn.
8. ↑ Noxy @ Hytale (@Noxywoxy) – Twitter
9. ↑ "Entering a new era for Hypixel Studios: an announcement from Simon and Noxy" – *Hytale* Blog, 16 April 2020.
10. ↑ "Aaron Donaghey - COO + Project Lead - Hypixel Studios Inc." – LinkedIn.
11. ↑ "Patrick Derbic" – LinkedIn.
12. ↑ "Nicholas Drabsch" – LinkedIn.
13. ↑ "Creating creature sounds for Hytale" – *Hytale* Blog, 19 April 2019.
14. ↑ "Kieran Fitzpatrick - Sound Designer - Hypixel Studios Inc." – LinkedIn.
15. ↑ "Pierre Frick - UI / UX artist Hytale - Hypixel Studios Inc." – LinkedIn.
16. ↑ "Pierre Frick - Art Director - Hypixel Studios Inc." – LinkedIn.
17. ↑ "About Thomas" – Xael Graphics.
18. ↑ "Hi! I'm Thomas, responsible for a lot of the doodles and 3Dmodels you can see in @Hytale. I worked on other #indiegames , like @dungeonrushers. I'm also a very enthusiastic game-jammer and participated over 10+ game jams with my friend @elisee! #MeetTheDev" – @ThomasFrick on Twitter, 17 December 2018
19. ↑ "Norske Oscar (28) lager musikk til «Hytale»: – Responsen har vært uvirkelig" ["*Norwegian Oscar (28) makes music for "Hytale": – The response has been unreal*"] – itavisen.no, 8 January 2019.
20. ↑ a b "Three new pieces of Hytale music" – *Hytale* Blog, 22 March 2019.
21. ↑ "In February I'll have worked on Hytale for 5 years. I feel like I've grown immensely both professionally and creatively during that time. I want to thank the Hytale community for being such an awesome and supportive gang! Excited for 2021 and smashing it out of the park 😁" – @Oscastyle on Twitter, 31 December 2020
22. ↑ a b "SparklinLabs — Team" .
23. ↑ "Kyle Gilmore" – LinkedIn.
24. ↑ "Joe Griffith - NPC & AI Developer - Hypixel Studios Inc." – LinkedIn.
25. ↑ "Please join me in welcoming @JLtZD to the Hypixel Studios team as our Design Director! John has loads of valuable exp in the blockgame genre and he will guide and support our design team as we work on bringing our vision for Hytale to life, whilst adding his own sprinkles too!" – @Noxywoxy on Twitter, 14 September 2020
26. ↑ "Adam Hooper" – LinkedIn.
27. ↑ "Hi, I'm Nick." – nklow.com.
28. ↑ "Nick Krecklow - Game Developer - Hypixel Studios Inc." – LinkedIn.
29. ↑ "James Lobb" – LinkedIn.
30. ↑ "The Road Ahead" by NoxyD. Hypixel Forums, 28 December 2016.
31. ↑ "Connor Linfoot - Software Developer - Hypixel Inc" – LinkedIn.
32. ↑ "Rick Mann - Developer - Hypixel Studios Inc." – LinkedIn.
33. ↑ "Elisée Maurer - Game Engine & Tools Developer - Hypixel Studios Inc." – LinkedIn.
34. ↑ "After 4 years, today is my last day at Hypixel Studios. 🧵" – @elisee on Twitter, 31 March 2020
35. ↑ "Sean McCafferty - Content Producer - Hypixel Studios Inc." – LinkedIn.
36. ↑ Amber @ Hytale (@Oats\_milk) – Twitter
37. ↑ "Tim Nadler - Project Manager - Hypixel Studios Inc." – LinkedIn.
38. ↑ "Barry O'Donnell" – LinkedIn.
39. ↑ "Mewen Page" (§ Resume) – mewen.page.
40. ↑ "Radoslaw Pasternicki - Producer - Hypixel Inc." – LinkedIn.
41. ↑ "Plancke @ California (@Plancke)" (archived) – Twitter.
42. ↑ "Plancke (@Plancke)" – Twitter.
43. ↑ "Aaron P." – LinkedIn.
44. ↑ "Matthew Sellers" – LinkedIn.
45. ↑ "Caleb Schilling" – LinkedIn.
46. ↑ Simon | Panda @ Hytale (@pxl\_panda) – Twitter
47. ↑ a b "Christopher Thursten - Writer/Publishing Coordinator - Hypixel Studios Inc." – LinkedIn.
48. ↑ "Sandbox RPG Hytale shows off early footage and a potential release window" by Sarah James. PC Gamer, 28 November 2019. *"Former PC Gamer staff member Chris Thursten is working with the Hytale devs on this one."*
49. ↑ "Philippe Touchette - Co-Founder - Hypixel Studios Inc." – LinkedIn.
50. ↑ "Charlie Tran - Lead Animator - Hypixel Studios Inc." – LinkedIn.