Future games?

[eXtr33m]

I am stunned.. I am stunned. Seeing galaxy in a game. Real galaxy. A game. wtf



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Thats just a little part.
They have whole galaxy made by procedural programming (i dont know much about that) (with each solar system).
i lost words..
There was a comment on youtube that if u visit each star just for 1 sec you would need 9000 years to watch them all.

[Witch]

real galaxy? I mean galaxy changes with the time, so you can see galaxy in real time in that "game"?

P.S: Does it include Earth as well?

[eXtr33m]

real galaxy? I mean galaxy changes with the time, so you can see galaxy in real time in that "game"?

P.S: Does it include Earth as well?

It's not a model of our galaxy, no. I dont know if there will be any Earth or not, but who the hell cares!

Well you can see realtime galaxy up in the sky and as you can see nothing is moving too much so i dont think they implemented stretching of spacetime and so on but maybe later.
Actual video:



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[natirips]

If it takes you 1 second per visiting a single star (including the travel time), it would take you cca. 3 years to visit all the stars in some of the smallest galaxyies in the real universe as modern astronomy knows it. As for a typical galaxy, it would take you cca. 30 000 years, and for the largest known galaxyies cca. 30 000 000 years.

(given that galaxyies have 10^7 ~ 10^14 stars each, and cca. 10^11 stars in a typical galaxy such as our Milky Way; and also given that a year still lasts 365.25*24*60*60 seconds after such a long period)

(I recently passed "Astronomy and Astrology" with 4/5:)

As for the informatic aspect of the game, I think such things could be relatively easily generated in real-time as needed. And if you use a fixed random seed and a good random-generating algorithm that would depend mostly up to the coordinates (i.e. not up to the sequence in which things are generated/visited) you could have an infinitely large universe with relatively small amount of effort put into building it AND have it look the same to all players.


In short, I like it.

P.S.: the second video shows what? Stars? In which case they are waaaaay to densely packed.

[JRandomNoob]

(I recently passed "Astronomy and Astrology" with 4/5:)

"Astronomy and Astrology"?

*Gulp*

P.S.: the second video shows what? Stars? In which case they are waaaaay to densely packed.

Star systems. Actually, the distances might be perfectly correct, it's just that the dots representing star systems are waaaaaay too large (so that they'd be more visible, duh).

[Crusher]

This video shows those Universe numbers:



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[natirips]

"Astronomy and Astrology"?

*Gulp*

It was actually just an elective one-semester subject that represented a crash-course in astrology and astronomy.

[manhut]

Well, they had the millions of animals already.... And a couple of 1000 different planets....



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