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The team at Hello Games built their dream game, and now they want to help struggling creators who are trying to do the same thing.
The indie studio behind the sci-fi game No Man’s Sky recently created Hello Labs, a new division of the company that provides funding to developers working on procedurally generated games. In short, procedural generation is a technique that randomizes particular elements of a game in the hopes of making it feel fresh and unique. For No Man’s Sky, that kind of technology made it possible for a small team to build a universe with 18 quintillion planets that players can explore.
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After encouraging developers in the audience to apply for jobs at Hello Games, he extended a helping hand to those who’d rather strike out on their own.
“But let’s say you’re interested in working on that kind of [game], but you also want to start up and do your own thing, then we’re gonna try and help with that as well,” said Murray. “We’re starting this thing. It’s super low-key at the moment — it’s Hello Labs. We’re gonna try to fund and support a couple of projects. There’s one already in development. And the focus is going to be on procedural generation, experimental games, games research, that kind of thing. More details will follow.”
http://venturebeat.com/2017/03/09/why-no-mans-skys-creators-are-funding-other-game-studios/
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