Commencing Exo-Suit Initialization... Life support systems activated...MORE THAN 18 QUINTILLION WORLDS.
MORE THAN 10 MILLION PLAYERS.
LEAD WRITER
I collaborated with Hello Games to create a new 30-hour story for the almost-infinite universe of NO MAN’S SKY. With multiple updates, critical and audience opinion reversed from negative to overwhelmingly positive, achieving estimated further sales of $100million+. NO MAN’S SKY won a BAFTA Award for Best Evolving Game in 2022 as of the Origins update, which marked my final addition to the project.
“Existence is beautiful, if you let it be. Life is not a question. There does not need to be an answer."
“A glimpse into the future of games” 🔗
“I don’t want to give away the surprise of what happens, but here is what I will say: This 30 minute section of No Man's Sky's new story update offers a glimpse into the future of games (or at least one future). It blends clever procgen, carefully handcrafted spaces, and a surprising variation of narrative pacing in a way that doesn't only impress me, but also helps to make sense of No Man's Sky's core design philosophies for me. Prior to this, it was not clear that procgen-driven games could leave me biting my nails in anxiety about the story.” - VICE
"The words that have guided all the best humanistic science fiction: You are not alone.” 🔗
It's a story that plays to the game's strengths, holding the never ending journey sacred, and giving players a consistent empathetic voice, taking them to far more personal, affecting places. It's still a quest to the center of the universe, but what you will find there is immensely more gratifying. There's profundity and power in a game that has no greater ambition than for the player to find a place of beauty and peace in the universe.” -GAMESPOT
NO MAN'S SKY
In a universe governed by an unknowable, god-like entity worshipped as ‘the ATLAS’, you awaken next to a crashed ship and take to the stars.
Infinite worlds, wonders, dreams, and nightmares, whispering of ancient secrets…
Countless worlds teem with life in the void between civilisations. The ghosts of fallen empires drift among the stars, while planets bloom with verdant possibility... and lurking strangeness. Abandoned freighters and distant installations whisper of a corruption at the heart of reality. The survivors of three proud alien species huddle in space stations and isolated outposts, hiding from the drones that stalk countless worlds, protecting even the very rocks. Until one day…
You hear static, coming from the depths of your ship.
kzzkkt - h - kzkzkkt - help - kzkkt - There is a transmission. One of your own kind, needing your help — asking you to find them before it is too late —
What does it mean to live if you know that life will come to an end?
The dream long past, long forgotten, screams for remembrance, for the final answer to the final question.
Who are you?
