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We’ve all played open world games. A game where you can travel anywhere the game allows you to and adventure the environment. No Man’s Sky takes it a step further. It is the first game people are now considering an open UNIVERSE game. This game is like making a square into a cube. This game is where you can fly from planet to planet and solar system to solar system. How is this possible when other games can’t handle an entire state, region or country? The answer is simple. Computers and mathematics. Every planet, solar system, star, nebula…everything for the most part is computer generated. But by the computer. Using algorithms, the generation of animals, elements found on the planet, and how occupied by animals each planet is based on however the math is done.

Planet sized planets. Night and day sides. Light speed traveling vs adventuring the galaxy yourself and taking time. Production staff have said that the planets are so large, it would take a lifetime to completely venture on one. ONE. There are billions more just waiting to be discovered by you. They also said that this would be online based but the odds of running into another player on the same planet, in the same space, and in the same time, is very close to impossible. More likely, improbable.

And if that wasn’t enough, although all the planets are different and all the animals are randomly created by the environment, the planet will always exist. This means if you come across one of the mathematically generated planets and are able to name it something like “Planet of Tim” and you discover new creatures and name them all “Tim”, when another player comes to that same mathematically generated planet, the will be one the same exact Planet Tim and see the creature you named Tim.

Its an amazing and innovative game. There is so much to look forward to in this game and its going to be a big deal when it comes out. Hopefully it fulfills the hype it has created.