Proving you don't need sky-high Bespin-tickling budgets to create lofty ambitions, Hello Games' potential-sweating space flight sim is going to be one for the ages regardless. By creating a game engine that procedurally generates the landscape around you as you traverse on foot or take to the skies and space itself, you're free to explore every facet of a staggering amount of planets and solar systems. The way it works is that the devs have coded a series of world-building 'seeds' as a mathematic algorithm, so they need only put in place the formulas for different things like wildlife, plantlife, the atmosphere, sky colour etc. and watch them all bounce off each other. It sounds like a boffin's paradise, and regardless of whether they can nail the idea of actually wanting to explore all of this territory, the feat alone of what they're achieving is already jaw-dropping. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h-kifCYToAU
