gamescom 2014: Visiting Every Planet in No Man’s Sky Will Take Over Five Billion Years

Hello Games co-founder Sean Murray has said that visiting every planet in No Man’s Sky’s procedurally-generated universe will take over five billion years. Yikes! However, the number wasn’t always so vast.

During the early stages of development, Hello Games was using a 32-bit number to generate planets in the in-game universe. Murray says, “With that 32-bit number it would take you four or five thousand years to see…

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