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Sean Murray's brow furrows in concentration. He's trying to remember just how many planets players can explore in his latest game.
Finally satisfied, the founder of UK-based games maker Hello Games walks to a whiteboard to write out the number:
18,446,744,073,709,551,616.
That's 18 quintillion planets.
"If a new planet was discovered every second after the game comes out," says Murray, "it would take 584 billion years to visit every one just for a second."
This unimaginably vast setting is the backdrop for "No Man's Sky," an ambitious, sci-fi adventure game that allows players to take on the galaxy as they wish.
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One thing you'll rarely see are other players. "No Man's Sky" will support a limited form of multiplayer that may see explorers stumble across other gamers. But the size of the galaxy means players will likely be spread far apart, and meeting up with friends will take so long it'd be impractical. Still, there are other ways that players can make an impact on your game.
Players can scan planets as they explore them, cataloging their resources, finding new ships, even discovering new species. Uploading that information will send that information to everyone else's game, so if they stumble across that planet they'll know who discovered it and what they can expect. But they can also choose not to.
Sean Murray's brow furrows in concentration. He's trying to remember just how many planets players can explore in his latest game.
Finally satisfied, the founder of UK-based games maker Hello Games walks to a whiteboard to write out the number:
18,446,744,073,709,551,616.
That's 18 quintillion planets.
"If a new planet was discovered every second after the game comes out," says Murray, "it would take 584 billion years to visit every one just for a second."
This unimaginably vast setting is the backdrop for "No Man's Sky," an ambitious, sci-fi adventure game that allows players to take on the galaxy as they wish.
...
One thing you'll rarely see are other players. "No Man's Sky" will support a limited form of multiplayer that may see explorers stumble across other gamers. But the size of the galaxy means players will likely be spread far apart, and meeting up with friends will take so long it'd be impractical. Still, there are other ways that players can make an impact on your game.
Players can scan planets as they explore them, cataloging their resources, finding new ships, even discovering new species. Uploading that information will send that information to everyone else's game, so if they stumble across that planet they'll know who discovered it and what they can expect. But they can also choose not to.
