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“Looking for a large continent with a variety of biomes,” writes someone called Ghostise. Players can also ask for “seeds” – inputs to the generation algorithm – for specific worlds. One group styles itself as the internet’s largest community of virtual cartographers.

Others churn through several worlds in a sitting, looking for ones in which the algorithms spawn especially exotic geographical features.įor several years, communities of explorers have shared pictures and stories about the randomly generated landscapes the game conjures for them. Some players spend hours exploring a single Minecraft world, walking its hills and valleys, following its riverbeds. “At the time I just had this huge sense of wonder,” he says. “I’m really interested in getting this feeling of being lost, of being in this huge world, into games.” Like others, the first time he played Minecraft, he decided to wander in one direction as far as he could. One of Linssen’s inspirations is Minecraft. “Every time you click it’s very, very likely no one else will ever see that planet.” There are over 200 trillion possible planets in the game, says developer Daniel Linssen, who is based in Sydney, Australia. As with Elite, players share interesting worlds they have discovered online. Each new planet spins slowly on the screen for a few seconds – some have clouds, some have moons, some have short descriptions of their alien life – and then it’s on to the next one. Planetarium is a game that presents players with a different randomly generated planet every time they click their mouse. Planetarium provides a parade of unique worldsīut the thrill of discovery comes in small packages, too. One player who set out in 2011 is still walking, partly just to see what’s there. No Man’s Sky, a space simulation game to be released next year, is set in a randomly generated galaxy containing so many planets that – according to its makers – visiting them all at the rate of one a second would still take longer than the lifetime of our sun.Įven in Minecraft – where players can roam randomly generated landscapes – you could walk for 20 years and not reach the edge.

“At that rate, it would take 800 years to map them all,” he says.Įlite is one of several games with a computer-generated playground so vast that players will never come close to seeing all of it. If each of Elite‘s half a million players explored 1000 star systems this year, there would still be 399,500,000,000 stars left undiscovered. But the intrepid ones turn their backs on the action. Many players busy themselves with trade, piracy or bounty hunting.

#Best virtual world games on computer Pc#

Made by Frontier, a studio based in Cambridge, UK, Elite was released on PC in December 2014 and on Xbox One last month. The game drops players into the cockpit of a ship and sets them loose in a 1:1 simulation of our galaxy, generated by algorithms fed with real data. With 400 billion stars to discover, exploration is a popular pastime in Elite: Dangerous. It’s a bit like the feeling you get watching a good sunset, but orders of magnitude more mesmerising.” “As I toured the area I was filled with awe at how beautiful it was. “It was a long and arduous voyage, but I eventually made it,” says Proudfoot. Even so, not many attempt the 1200-light-year trip to the Orion Nebula. With a hyperspace jump of 35 light years, the Asp could cover vast distances in just a few hops. But he had places to go, and no other ship would do. It took Kimmo Proudfoot days to save up for an Asp Explorer. Explorers are hunting for unique or beautiful places in games, like this alley in Dying Light