During the VGX 2013 awards over the weekend, 4-man indie studio Hello Games (of Joe Danger fame) unveiled their next, very ambitious project.<\/p>\n
No Man’s Sky is an open-world procedurally-generated science-fiction exploration and survival game. And when they say procedurally-generated, they mean it.<\/p>\n
From the atoms, upwards – galaxies, stars, planets, space-stations, ecosystems, and lifeforms – everything is generated by the game engine. As developer Sean Murray puts it, if you can see it, you can go and explore it.<\/p>\n
In the brief gameplay trailer released, we are shown the life underwater, an exploration of the land surface of a planet, before climbing into a space ship and soaring off toward a space station hanging in orbit.<\/p>\n
We also see interstellar travel, space fleet battles, navigation through asteroid fields, and an encounter with some sort of giant sand worm creature.<\/p>\n
Speaking in an interview, Murray hinted that the game universe would be persistent through an online component, and each star and its planets will be a world that others are playing in.<\/p>\n
Murray described the world as “adversarial” – with its native creatures and environs being hazardous to your survival, the player will need their wits about them.<\/p>\n
No release window was discussed, but the game is planned for next-gen platforms (and we hope that means PC too).<\/p>\n
This project sounds insanely ambitious, and with a team of only 4 people, I wonder how they’ll be able to pull it off.<\/p>\n