Is this the ultimate video game?

[hhfarang]

"Inside the Artificial Universe That Creates Itself

The Atlantic
22 hours ago

Every particle in the universe is accounted for. The precise shape and position of every blade of grass on every planet has been calculated. Every snowflake and every raindrop has been numbered. On the screen before us, mountains rise sharply and erode into gently rolling hills, before finally subsiding into desert. Millions of years pass in an instant.

Here, in a dim room half an hour south of London, a tribe of programmers sit bowed at their computers, creating a vast digital cosmos. Or rather, through the science of procedural generation, they are making a program that allows a universe to create itself.

The ambitious project will be released as a video game this June under the title No Man’s Sky. In the game, randomly-placed astronauts isolated from one another by millions of lightyears must find their own existential purpose as they traverse a galaxy of 18,446,744,073,709,551,616 unique planets. ..."

Lots more here:

https://news.yahoo.com/inside-artificia ... .html?nf=1

[Bluesky]

Sounds like a modern day digital reincarnation that may have morphed from the writings of Douglas ADAMS (Hitchhikers guide to the Galaxy)

[buksida]

Shame its only available on PS4.

Sounds like a take on of this: http://www.gamespot.com/reviews/elite-d ... 0-6416269/