{"id":3714,"date":"2017-03-02T21:00:40","date_gmt":"2017-03-03T04:00:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.taterboy.com\/blog\/2017\/03\/sean-murray-unveils-hello-labs-will-incubate-more-procedural-tech-games\/"},"modified":"2017-03-02T21:00:40","modified_gmt":"2017-03-03T04:00:40","slug":"sean-murray-unveils-hello-labs-will-incubate-more-procedural-tech-games","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.taterboy.com\/blog\/2017\/03\/sean-murray-unveils-hello-labs-will-incubate-more-procedural-tech-games\/","title":{"rendered":"Sean Murray unveils Hello Labs, will incubate more procedural-tech games"},"content":{"rendered":"
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SAN FRANCISCO\u2014Hello Games, cost<\/a> the makers of beleaguered<\/a> space-exploration game No Man’s Sky<\/em>, pharmacy<\/a> announced a new initiative on stage at\u00a0this year’s Game Developers Conference: Hello Labs. As announced by studio founder Sean Murray, more about<\/a> \u00a0the company is setting aside money to fund multiple projects\u2014one of which is already in development\u2014that focus on “procedural [world] generation and experimental games research.”<\/p>\n

Murray made the announcement at the end of a discussion about the use of mathematic formulas to generate the quadrillions of planets\u00a0in No Man’s Sky.<\/em>\u00a0This discussion largely avoided talking about the game’s mixed critical reception<\/a>.\u00a0Still, Murray did point out a few new details about the end of development.<\/p>\n

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That’s some off-the-mark data you used to predict No Man’s Sky’s launch numbers, Mr. Murray.<\/a> <\/p>\n<\/div>\n

For starters: Murray and his team made an astonishingly low-ball\u00a0prediction about how many players would boot the game on its first day. As in, less than 14,000. The team considered that number a high-end estimate of concurrent players, because staffers saw that number attached to recent Steam-use data for the game Far Cry: Primal<\/em>, which launched shortly before No Man’s Sky<\/em>. “It’s a huge game, obviously,” Murray said. “That [number] made us a little bit nervous about servers, and the sheer number of people booting the game up day one.” (The team was tempted to estimate even lower, at around the 3,000-player count of indie game Inside<\/em>, but staffers at Sony warned Murray\u00a0to estimate something befitting “a triple-A product.”)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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(credit: Sam Machkovech) SAN FRANCISCO\u2014Hello Games, cost the makers of beleaguered space-exploration game No Man’s Sky, pharmacy announced a new initiative on stage at\u00a0this year’s Game Developers Conference: Hello Labs. As announced by studio founder Sean Murray, more about \u00a0the company is setting aside money to fund multiple projects\u2014one of which is already in development\u2014that… Read the full article…<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":3715,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[174,377],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3714","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-games-media","category-gaming"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t