No Man’s Sky Is A Huge Procedurally Generated Sci-Fi Exploration Sim

Re:No Man’s Sky Is A Huge Procedurally Generated Sci-Fi Expl... by amiramir on Sunday December 08, 2013 @09:35AM (#6869759)

I've been a fan of David Braben's since playing Elite and Virus as a kid. I'd never seen him speak and The Procedural Generation video gave me a whole new appreciation of his intellect. I hope he gets a knighthood for his work on Raspberry-Pi. Much greatness in him and I wonder what he would have achieved if he had started off in California rather than Essex and Cambridge.

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Re:No Man’s Sky Is A Huge Procedurally Generated Sci-Fi Expl... by objclxt on Monday December 09, 2013 @01:59AM (#6873154)

> Much greatness in him and I wonder what he would have achieved if he had started off in California rather than Essex and Cambridge.

Wow, that's more than a little bit self-important / arrogant. You do realize that Cambridge is home to several huge tech innovators, right (ARM?) And that the UK produces more than its fair share of huge video games (GTA?).

Applying your logic, who knows what that Tim Berners-Lee guy might have achieved if he'd started off in the valley rather than CERN...

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Re:No Man’s Sky Is A Huge Procedurally Generated Sci-Fi Expl... by xradionut on Sunday December 08, 2013 @01:44PM (#6870732)

"Much greatness in him and I wonder what he would have achieved if he had started off in California rather than Essex and Cambridge."

Maybe nothing great? Consider if Linus didn't have Finnish winters?

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Re:No Man’s Sky Is A Huge Procedurally Generated Sci-Fi Expl... by Swannie on Monday December 09, 2013 @09:44AM (#6874481)

Probably not so much. He'd probably have been hired by Atari and making a ton of cash, followed by disappearing into obscurity.

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