Insightful tech demo with an inspiring component.
I admire how Sean is humble and proud at the same time. Also he shares his story, the ideas and shows the tools involved. He also revived my excitement for ID-Soft back in the days. One important fact was that ID shared it’s level building tools and enabled everybody to build level and write mods with Quake C.
That’s the spirit one feels fueling this presentation. Good fortune!
No Man's Sky
No Man's Sky is an action-adventure survival game developed and published by Hello Games. It was released worldwide for the PlayStation 4 and Windows in August 2016, for Xbox One in July 2018, for the PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X and Series S consoles in November 2020, for Nintendo Switch in October 2022, and for macOS in June 2023. The game is built around four pillars: exploration, survival, combat, and trading. Players can engage with the entirety of a procedurally generated deterministic open world universe, which includes over 18 quintillion planets. Through the game's procedural generation system, planets have their own ecosystems with unique forms of flora and fauna, and various alien species may engage the player in combat or trade within planetary systems. Players advance in the game by mining for resources to power and improve their equipment, buying and selling resources using credits earned by documenting flora and fauna or trading with the aforementioned lifeforms, building planetary bases and expanding space fleets, or otherwise following the game's overarching plot by seeking out the mystery around the entity known as The Atlas.
Sean Murray, the founder of Hello Games...
Definition from Wikipedia – No Man's Sky
Hello Games
Hello Games Ltd is a British video game company based in Guildford, Surrey. The company was founded by Sean Murray, Grant Duncan, Ryan Doyle and David Ream in February 2008 (incorporated on 4 August 2008) and has developed the Joe Danger series, No Man's Sky, The Last Campfire, and the upcoming Light No Fire.
Definition from Wikipedia – Hello Games