Additionally, while No Man’s Sky might have an infinite-sized universe, there aren’t an infinite number of players.
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This presents numerous technological challenges, not least of which is how to test a universe of such scale during its development – the team is currently using virtual testers-automated bots that wander around taking screenshots which are then sent back to the team for viewing. This is virtual world building on an unprecedented scale ( see video below). The multitude of creatures that inhabit the universe dynamically breed and genetically mutate as time progresses.
Each is generated when a player discovers it, and is subject to the laws of its respective solar systems and vulnerable to natural erosion. The tens of millions of planets that comprise the universe are all unique. But No Man’s Sky is far more complex and sophisticated. Most famously Minecraft creates a unique world for each of its players, randomly arranging rocks and lakes from a limited palette of bricks whenever someone begins a new game (see “ The Secret to a Video Game Phenomenon”). Procedural generation, whereby a game’s landscape is generated not by an artist’s pen but an algorithm, is increasingly prevalent in video games. “No game has made it possible to fly down to a planet, and for it to be planet-sized, and feature life, ecology, lakes, caves, waterfalls, and canyons, then seamlessly fly up through the stratosphere and take to space again. “We are attempting to do things that haven’t been done before,” says Murray.
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