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CNET News - We asked the creator of No Man's Sky how it all works

2015-06-18
hey everyone I'm Jeff Bakalar here off-site at e3 2015 i'm here with sean murray one of the cofounders of hello games and the studio responsible for no man's sky which let's be honest stole the show last year start us off and i guess we'll just sort of talk about where the game has come we're here we're just walking around an alien planet excellent and that's the cool thing about nomans guys that this is a real planet to planet sized planet I can walk in any direction for days and days and weeks and we sure I'll eventually come all the way around the planet right back to where I started Wow if I do it will turn from day to night and back today again I think what captured the imagination was just a boundless game you know limitless game one way you're not enclosed in it like a skybox sure have a matte painting you know you can just go anyway sure what you want you can be a traitor okay and so you can trade resources between space stations you can gather resources and planets combined them and then sell them for a profit or you can just be an intergalactic kind of trader okay go to a space station or trading post on a planet by some resources Philo and kind of sell high build up your ship your suit your weapons and kind of improve yourself in that way see there's kind of a North EG now and to it as well and you can also be kind of a fighter you can be sort of an intergalactic jerk basically okay go out into space and try and shoot down innocent traders steal what they are trading and you take on pirates take on fighters or go down to planets and just start causing trouble there's lots of different options open to you lots of different ways to play the game and nobody is telling you you know in a three minute opening cutscene this is what you do we're going to do only this for the next 10 hours and so it's a game of scale really I mean you see that one moment I'm down and their blades of grass and fish in the water right at the next moment I can be in a solar system flying around it you know hundreds of thousands of kilometres an hour and here we are now able to travel at light years yeah it's a selector a solar system at random and then go there an amazing ship around of a range there yeah it's kind of powers of 10 really now most of these places I've never been visited many of them never will be what are you seeing around you is being generated on the fly okay so none of it exists before you get there when you get there the maths generates everything when you go away it will all be thrown away if two people go to the same planet or if you fly away and come back it will be you know I do expect it well this has been fantastic thank you so much for showing the game I definitely am able to wrap my head around it a little more than before but having having you here so really pretty thanks so much man thanks a lot all right
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