Jul 072015
Footage of gameplay from the forthcoming “No Man’s Sky.” This is a “procedural” open universe… the game generates stars, planets, environments and critters on the spot, so there can be an incredibly large number of each (quintillions of unique planets are possible). You earn in-game money by flying around discovering new stuff. As it’s an online game, what you discover gets uploaded to an “atlas,” as does everything discovered by other folk, so the catalog of what and where will only get bigger.
Times like this I’m glad I don’t have a good computer hooked up to the internet, just a creaky old netbook. Because this sort of thing looks like it could suck me in and that’d be the end of me.