No Man's Sky

Mongrelman

Very procedural, very cool.

[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kXEytrV_dsQ"]No Man's Sky -- World Premiere Trailer (HD) - YouTube[/ame]

Suba

Fuck. Video deleted?

Kurt Russell Fan Club

Vid keeps getting deleted because it's a VGX exclusive.

Here's the Polygon article with GameTrailers working video: http://www.polygon.com/2013/12/7/5186774/exploration-sim-no-mans-sky-coming-from-hello-games

Looks cool. I like the art style more than I like the infiniteness

Frankie

[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RRpDn5qPp3s"]No Man's Sky - YouTube[/ame] from the developers youtube channel and in hd! Looks really good.

jfeez

I need this game in my life.

Muzzoid

I always thought these guys had way more potential than they did in Joe Danger. That game had far more polish than that design warranted :P.

MartinKDahl

This looks really interesting! For some reason i feel more drawn towards this than the upcoming Star citizen. I think it is because this reminds me a little bit of the kind of art style / setting you would find in homeworld. That whole mystical ancient star relic vibe, just waiting to be explored.

NegevPro

Looks beautiful!

Bigjohn

Couldn't tell if this is more of an exploration game, or a space pew-pew game. Either way it looks pretty damn interesting.

ambershee

It's mostly an exploration game - sounded like an MMOG or at least quasi-MMOG.

I quite liked the look of it from the trailer.

uncle

Yuuussss, let me explore.... Damn, I dreamt about this game. I love everything about what I've seen.

stabbington

This looks amazing! I always daydreamed as a kid that a follow up to Elite/Frontier would be more like this - procedural planetary meanderings, vibrant stand-out art style, etc.

And apparently only made by 4 people?!

Bek

Seems interesting, looks like it would be great to jump in for the first time with a bunch of mates on skype and making an adventure.

HitmonInfinity

Kinda looks like an indie Destiny. Which is pretty awesome.

JohnnyRaptor

oooooooooo shiiiny, and its MMO going by whats in the article?



man, that scares me...ever since i managed to tear myself away from eve online a few years back im scared to play stuff like this...cant affort the time i should be spending on making art instead :0

planaria

the real question , is it based off of this engine ?

http://procworld.blogspot.de/

also i was reading it would be like spore in that it would be singleplayer but with multiplayer effects on the world , so no coop possibly

Davision3D

More info here:
http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2013/12/09/first-look-no-mans-sky/
Looks and sounds mind blowing!

Slave_zero

looks cool and is really interesting.

I've been playing the starbound beta lately which focuses on similar aspects: exploring procedural generated planets.

What I don't understand from the video is: How are they going to crreate such unique encounters like the giant snake in a fully procedural world? Of course this is likely to be a predefined boss. But nevertheless I feel that games that base theier core mechanics arround heavily procedural generated content tend to have easy recognizable patterns. For example encounters, enemy behaviour and what not. When you are spending a few hours into those world you can explore great places and stuff but soon enough it might start to feel random. At a creatin point one might get the feeling to not explore worlds but a generated randomness that looks good on the outside but may easily fall apart when you really try to immerse yourself into that world.

However the game looks awesome form the art style and really is promising. I hope they can keep it visually very diverse while not sacrificing their colorfull look.

Zocky

Wow dude!

procedural SPACE exploration game? Amazing visuals (not to mention those colors!), fully procedural, entire freakin SPACE with no loading or any artificial barrier separating planets from space, dune worm in sandy planets.....omg i want this game like, now! :P

I sure hope it lives up to it's potential. Also, would be awesome if you could explore together with bunch of friends, that's what made minecraft so interesting (for me at least).

Man, this game is THE game i'll be waiting for; sorry witcher 3 & cyberpunk 2077. :P

And just 4 guys are making this? Insane....

Stinger88

I've been wanting to get a space exploration game that isn't heavily combat based. This looks like it fits the bill and more. Can't wait to see more!

Davision3D

Slave_zero wrote: »

looks cool and is really interesting.

I've been playing the starbound beta lately which focuses on similar aspects: exploring procedural generated planets.

What I don't understand from the video is: How are they going to crreate such unique encounters like the giant snake in a fully procedural world? Of course this is likely to be a predefined boss. But nevertheless I feel that games that base theier core mechanics arround heavily procedural generated content tend to have easy recognizable patterns. For example encounters, enemy behaviour and what not. When you are spending a few hours into those world you can explore great places and stuff but soon enough it might start to feel random. At a creatin point one might get the feeling to not explore worlds but a generated randomness that looks good on the outside but may easily fall apart when you really try to immerse yourself into that world.

However the game looks awesome form the art style and really is promising. I hope they can keep it visually very diverse while not sacrificing their colorfull look.

They talk about the problem of making the procedural planets interesting while having so very much generated in the interview here: http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2013/12/10/interview-no-mans-sky-and-procedural-generation/#more-179478
I'm pretty sure all creatures are not generated, would be very tricky. But it could be possible like in Spore. They are placed randomly though, they mentioned that while talking about the shark of the trailer.

HitmonInfinity

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HitmonInfinity

It's soooo beautiful.

Anchang-Style

Especially cool: it's a small sized team blowing everything else on E3 out the water

WarrenM

I hear that but what am I looking at? It looks like a cool tech demo at this point. What's the game?

Crackdown and Sunset Overdrive looked WAY more interesting to me...

Xoliul

I love everything about this. Nothing else at E3 got close to this IMO. Pushes all the right buttons for me, this really would be my dream project to work on:

• Space & planetary exploration
• Procedurally generated
• Stylized visuals, not 'hyper realistic' for once
• Awesome music

It's amazing what a small team can achieve once they free themselves from wanting/having to do realistic graphics...

HitmonInfinity

WarrenM wrote: »

What's the game?

Exploration is a game in itself. I didn't really get it until I tried Minecraft. Knowing no one else is seeing what you're seeing, a completely unique world to explore, is pretty fun. And in this game, it's a whole unique universe to explore. That's pretty sick.

woot

HitmonInfinity wrote: »

Exploration is a game in itself. I didn't really get it until I tried Minecraft. Knowing no one else is seeing what you're seeing, a completely unique world to explore, is pretty fun. And in this game, it's a whole unique universe to explore. That's pretty sick.

looks like it involves space battles as well, im wondering if that might be a faction system or something.

Isaiah Sherman

This is my #1 interest from E3 so far. Don't care about all the hyper-real shooters coming out.

Zocky

I'm going to totally abuse the shit out of this game once it comes out. :P

Shrike

The art is amazing, so well chosen colors and everything, was really amazed

The gameplay on the other hand, not so sure about that

NegevPro

HitmonInfinity wrote: »

Exploration is a game in itself. I didn't really get it until I tried Minecraft. Knowing no one else is seeing what you're seeing, a completely unique world to explore, is pretty fun. And in this game, it's a whole unique universe to explore. That's pretty sick.

I second this. While it might not be for everybody, I'd be happy enough just getting to fly around and walk around unique worlds while looking at the art and listening to the sounds around me. I'd imagine there will be some more gameplay mechanics they haven't talked about yet, though.

heboltz3

This looks so tasty, and was the unexpected highlight of my monday.

Can not wait for this.

HitmonInfinity

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PogoP

Damn, that E3 trailer was incredible. Great choice of music, suits the atmosphere perfectly. First video in ages to send a shiver down my spine.

spiderDude

"The likelihood of encounter other players is very tiny. The plantets are 1:1 scale, this is not an MMO."
Crazy stuff.

12 minute interview
[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DbFebgl_Vq8"]No Man's Sky (PS4) - 12 Minute Gameplay & Interview - 1080p HD - YouTube[/ame]

Stosh

spiderDude wrote: »

"The likelihood of encounter other players is very tiny. The plantets are 1:1 scale, this is not an MMO."
Crazy stuff.

That's INSANE! This game. I want. SO BAD.

Muzzoid

The fact that this was made by a team of four with a single artist, and one of the programmers is a girl is fucking mind boggling.

I knew hello games had big things in store after Joe Danger, but i don't think anyone could have predicted this! (that game was way more polished than the idea warranted showing some serious talent!)

ambershee

Muzz wrote: »

one of the programmers is a girl is fucking mind boggling.

wat

Justin Meisse

Muzz wrote: »

and one of the programmers is a girl is fucking mind boggling.

please be a joke!

ZacD

Justin Meisse wrote: »

please be a joke!

Don't you know only 1 out of 100,000 girls is born with programming skills!

weee

the world's first programmer was a female!

Muzzoid

uuugh, i didn't mean it was mind boggling that it was a girl, i meant it's mind boggling that it was 4 people.


I should have put it as an aside that it's awesome to see a girl doing crazy awesome coding stuff, not that i think it's any harder for a woman to learn how to code just that you don't see it as often, especially on small indie teams.

*shrug*

So yeah just take my compliment and make it out to be sexism...

Justin Meisse

Muzz wrote: »

uuugh, i didn't mean it was mind boggling that it was a girl, i meant it's mind boggling that it was 4 people.


I should have put it as an aside that it's awesome to see a girl doing crazy awesome coding stuff, not that i think it's any harder for a woman to learn how to code just that you don't see it as often, especially on small indie teams.

*shrug*

So yeah just take my compliment and make it out to be sexism...

glad it was a misunderstanding but c'mon, the way it was phrased there was no other way to read it.

Muzzoid

If you take the entire sentence as being what I'm referring to as mind boggling then it does read as i intended. But i can see why it was misinterpreted.

ambershee

It's not misinterpreted really; your grammar sucked - "X, and Y is mind boggling".

More to the point it didn't really need mentioning at all

Muzzoid

Can we get back on topic of awe about how much work that one artist has done?

Isaiah Sherman

How is multiplayer supposed to work in this game? They said it's not an MMO, but you can encounter other players.

Do you join a server like DayZ? Do you make your own world/server like Terraria?

ambershee

They haven't said. I suspect it's 'mingleplayer'.

SHEPEIRO

Sorry but "planet sized planets". Pluto just got thrown out of the planet club for being a little wiener. Doubt these look big enough if horizon curve and time to exit/enter atmosphere mean anything. Could be smoke and mirrors transition between on world and space.

That said looks fully awesome might have to get a ps4 for this

WarrenM

It's an interesting concept ... if t's going to be exceedingly rare to run into other players then why have other players at all? The interactions, by nature, can't be integral to anything or critical to progression .... so is it just a social avenue?