GribbleGrunger said:
They have said they're going to support it for a very long time. They've also expressed an interest in creating a game which uses the same tech but in a smaller space so they can drill down on the detail and complexity. This is a must watch if you haven't seen it already: |
Interesting stuff. I'm actually surprised that they don't store the data of generated planets, instead calculations will keep generating the planet exactly in the same way no matter how many times you or other people visit it.
I love the fact that planets are generated taking into consideration how close they are to their Sun. So if they are the right distance away from their Sun it will be a "Goldilocks" planet with liquid lakes, clouds and atmosphere. To close it will be burnt to a crisp and further away it will be cold. It's not randomly generated and a lot of thought has been put into how everything is created on the fly.
