Hello Games, the studio behind No Man's Sky, is making Light No Fire, an Earth-sized multiplayer sandbox.
Light No Fire is the latest upcoming game from developer Hello Games, and this feature runs down 10 of the biggest details that fans should know about it.
If you've got almost a year of free time to spare, you could attempt to walk across the entirety of Light No Fire's very large world on PS5 and Xbox.
For reference, it would take 335 days to walk across the earth, assuming there was a water-free path across the entire equator and you never stopped.
Well I was thinking more like combat, dungeons, puzzles, quests, something more than just the same game loop of all the other open world survival/building games out there.
Size and scale with no substance. Big talk with no real good ideas. Big = Good and cool. He may as well start foaming at the mouth and start talking about multiverse. I mean dude, Sean mimics/dresses like the guys that inspired him that are like 10-20 years his senior (The 'I want to look like a coffee house indy dev' look). He's so full of original ideas, it's literally seeping out of this paid shirt. It's like film students rock'n a Steven Spielberg, as if it is going to meld them into the role.
He wears plaid, enough said.
In 2019 Hello Games sent out an article saying they were looking for ideas for their next game.
I was drunk and playing NMS and loving it, and I gave them one. Never got a response. Here's my actual email, copy/paste no edit.
"Hi Hello Games,
Love NMS, Day 1 all the way through. You guys are an amazing team and thank you for what NMS is today.
Read an article saying you were exploring new ideas beyond NMS.
Here's one. A planet. Just one. Earth-Like. Procedurally generated huge biomes. Cities. Jungles and deserts and oceans that would take years in real-time to explore, full of artefacts and ruins and secret caves of wonders. Hub towns and cities to build and take part in missions, hook up with others, etc. Animals to discover, log, interact with. NPCs of other cultures and races with rich histories and communities. Horses, bikes, trains, cars, boats, subs, planes etc to aid in exploration. Market places for trading with others and growing local economies.
Basically, No Man's Sky, but on one absolutely huge planet. So big it takes real-time days to travel even by the fastest means to other continents. And super detailed environments, much more than NMS.
Thanks for hearing that out, hope it helps in some way!
All the best"
I think I should at least get a credit loollll
No agenda I just think it's pretty great. Like, they're making my game!
In fairness, probably a number of people sent them something pretty similar to this (though my guess would be more people did the "a few dense planets instead of a ton of lifeless ones" idea).
Yeah nah absolutely my thought too. It's not exactly a hard leap to come by that idea I'm sure loads of people had it, internally in the company as well as fellow NMS fans. I'm just chuffed about it. :) Hope they do it justice!
Right? I thought so when I saw the trailer! Turned to the wife was like, holy crap they're making the exact game I pitched them! Was a fun moment.
Nice one! There is an adage though. If you thought of something original 100% likely someone already thought of it!
Awesome!!! Hope they read your mail and had a good "we got you, bro" moment with their development team ;)
I do find it funny that your idea or parts of it is/was used...and that you were a bit drunk..and I would totally play that 😅
We have to remember how it was with NMS .. ton of features blah blah greatness! And the version of what they released was 0.5% of the promises and now 2023 it's the game that they where pitching... So please, don't start the trending again and when they release this new idea ton of videos compiling the "lies".
Just shut up and work quietly pretty please.
People tend to not realize that they lost nearly all progress after their office flooded shortly after the reveal and had to start over.
The reputation issues of Hello Games are clearly in the past, with their next project Light No Fire topping YouTube views among TGA 2023 news.
The first real open world.
Eyebrow, raised.
**an Earth-sized multiplayer sandbox.**
My imagination is running wild on how gameplay will be with this. I'm thinking Dr Stone combined with Age of Empires.
they definitely need to make sure that at launch, everything works right.
very interested in this
This game is what got me most hyped after the obvious FFVII Rebirth.
Loved No Man Sky since day 1, and Light No Fire seems to take everything they've learnt during those years, and make it another amazing survival joruney worth exploring for thousands of hours