It is a large second for No Man’s Sky. This week sees developer Good day Video games’ exploratory area sim celebrating its tenth anniversary, and to mark the event, I lately spoke with studio boss Sean Murray.
Amid all of the birthday festivities, although, I could not resist the chance to ask in regards to the crew’s different recreation. It has been almost three years since Good day Video games unveiled its No Man’s Sky follow-up, Mild No Fireplace – a co-operative journey set on a procedurally generated fantasy planet – within the type of a trailer. However whereas it is namechecked the sport just a few instances since then – most notably when a few of its tech migrated to No Man’s Sky in 2024 – it is remained tightlipped in any other case. So, I requested Murray, when may we lastly hear extra?
“You already know,” he laughs after I broach the topic throughout our dialog, “I’ve realized my essential lesson of not speaking about issues beforehand. I’ll say, we’re to date past the purpose the place we must always have mentioned one thing by now by way of what we’ve on display, of what we’re enjoying day-after-day.”
However as to when Good day Video games may lastly be prepared to debate Mild No Fireplace in additional element, Murray does not say. “I believe in some unspecified time in the future we are going to, you already know, let individuals see extra of the sport, and I believe that it will likely be very thrilling for individuals after they do see that. I believe what I’m taking a look at day-after-day is effectively previous the purpose every other studio can be speaking about their recreation and displaying extra.”
Earlier within the dialog, Murray had famous that alongside No Man’s Sky’s persevering with improvement (“one other large replace” is on the way in which for its decade-old area sim), the crew continues to be “working actually exhausting” on Mild No Fireplace. He additionally acknowledged the “very stark distinction” between the promotion of No Man’s Sky in its earliest days and its newest venture. “We have put out a trailer [for Light No Fire], after which we’ve not mentioned something,” he continued, “and I believe that is in all probability the way in which individuals would favor it in some methods too.”
“I’ve to chew my lip to not speak to you about [Light No Fire], and to not present it to individuals,” he added elsewhere in our dialog. “However I’m so extremely enthusiastic about it, and it’s such a pleasure to work on.”
Mild No Fireplace, which was formally unveiled at The Recreation Awards in 2023, is a recreation about “journey, constructing, survival, and exploration” set on an historical, procedurally generated planet the scale of Earth. It is all impressed by traditional fantasy, and sees gamers teaming as much as “carve a life collectively” on a “actually open world”, promising the likes of “immersive biomes, distinctive enemies and beneficial sources to find”. It is formidable stuff, and as somebody who’s been enjoying and having fun with No Man’s Sky since that very first iteration in 2016, I am eagerly anticipating the day Good day Video games is able to present extra.