INDY AUTHOR learns about the redemption of NO MAN'S SKY - Internet Historian Engoodening No Mans Sky 

When Joe Danger was removed from iOS due to compatibility issues, a heartfelt message from a father made its way to Hello Games. In it, the father of an autistic child who found great success in using Joe Danger as a coping mechanism and allowed the two to bond, lamented that the incompatibility meant Joe Danger would no longer be able to help his son. When Sean read the message, he was so touched that he and his team worked to get Joe Danger back up on iOS with a suite of updates. *That’s* the kind of guy Sean Murray is.

The fact that Sean willingly funnelled all of the negativity directly to himself, sifted through all of it, and broke it down into data to help improve the game. We need more people like Sean.

Would love to see you react to more Internet Historian he’s a great storyteller and is very funny

Hey, props to you for actually going through the Fan Fiction part. I still feel second hand embarrassment whenever the story gets to that part. Now, please do more internet historian!☺

This is always my favorite part of their story and why I love Internet Historian Edit: Oh god I forgot about Fallout 76. The complete opposite of No Man's Sky

The one crazy thing to know is that the game is still getting updates TO THIS DAY. They've recently (around weeks ago or something) released a new update. Hello Games really wasn't content with releasing a few updates as goodwill and as an apology for the fans, they've literally went above and beyond. There are games that slowly regained back their fans' goodwill after a disastrous launch *cough* Cyberpunk 2077 *cough* but I don't think it will ever be the same as Hello Games literally supporting their games for barely any extra monetary gains.

Procedural means a magic fairy inside the computer randomly generates content, based on certain pre-established rules. Like in Minecraft, you have LARGE open spaces of grass, trees, mountains, caves etc. They're all randomly placed, but the game needs to know WHAT a tree looks like before putting it down. So the magic pixie tells it, then uses some complicated mathemagics to determine how many and where to put them. Easy.

The fan fiction came in like a freaking flash granade. No one deserves that.

I had completly forgoten how this video ended. What a powerful finish

Sean Murray (and the Hello Games team) is a champ.

Hannah, procedural generation is when instead of purposely crafting every inch of the 'physical' space in the game they have a series of rules using an algorithm to make vast unique worlds. It's the same as how when people play Minecraft they have unique worlds to explore. Ps. I'm so sorry about that 'fanfiction'. I completely forgot about it because I'm pretty sure I forgot it due to trauma. Here's to hoping we never have to hear something like that again. Definitely not my thing.

LoL. Sweet summer child, your reaction to the end was adorable. It's refreshing to be reminded that some people haven't built up the emotional calluses to be desensitized.

And to this day, No Man's Sky is still getting big update regularly and it's become an amazing game!

Procedural generation is a technique used in games to create unique, randomly generated "items" though a relatively small collection of specific items or traits. In traditional games, if you wanted to make a forest, you'd have to make many different trees in order for the forest to not look extremely repetitive. In procedural generation, you make each separate part of the tree, such as the leaves, flowers, branches, and the trunk. Each separate part has it's own unique variations, such as having blue flowers, red flowers, yellow flowers, big flowers, small flowers, etc in the "flowers" category and repeating that process in each of the other different parts of the tree. The program then "generates" a unique tree from the library of individual parts to create one tree. For example a tree with a tall trunk and rough bark, large heart shaped leaves, small, round, white flowers and long, thick branches. So now you can create a forest with thousands of unique trees from a comparably small list of individual parts at the click of a button. There's a lot more to it, but that's the general idea. Pretty much everything is procedurally generated in No Mans Sky, from creatures, to people, planets, space ships, weapons and even the layout of the stars in the galaxy of No Man's Sky. It's pretty cool.

This story really brings a tear to my eye. And then he whips out the fan fiction and I just can't.

Your response to the fan fiction section was so hilarious. If it makes you feel any better, we all felt like that when we heard it too.

I have seen many reactions to the fan-fiction but I have NEVER seen someone get physically ill by it lmao

The reaction when you saw the couch in the fanfiction lmao priceless. Top Tier reaction as always.

Glad you made it to the best part !

The look of *complete and utter repulsion* on your face throughout that entire story at the end was the funniest thing ever. 😂 P.S.: I do genuinely recommend playing The Last Campfire (the small game he said a splinter team within Hello Games went on to make); it is a genuinely enjoyable, short, and fairly easy puzzle adventure with a ton of heart and an inspiring story.

I'm still in awe of... well... *everyone* at Hello Games and what they managed to pull off. And I always use them as a perfect example of game development done right. 7 years and still going strong. It's incredibly inspiring, truly.

i loved the reaction on your face hannah with the erotica fanfiction lmaoo

Hello Games put out a new update for No Man's Sky only a couple weeks ago.

Procedural generation is when things like the terrain or a mission are randomly created (within parameters) rather than handcrafted by the designer. It allows for content to never run out though it can feel a little shallow.

At last after all these days, you posted your whole reaction. Can't wait to watch this with you. (I'm going back to part 1 to start this adventure with you)

Cuddos for sticking through the end. Not everyone is brave enough.

when ask if sean murry knew about this Vid, he said. “yes i loved it. except the last 3 mins of it.

Should totally watch historians sponsor adverts. He puts a ton of effort into them and they are hilarious.

Procedural generation is like the game has an inner table filled with dozens upon dozens of different plants, animals, biomes, landscape features, etc that one can find on their planet that they drop down onto, and the game basically rolls dice to decide what goes onto the planet.

And the amazing thing is, they are still making those big updates to the game. Eight years after launch, for free.

8:21 The actual online released with the Next Update in 2018, before this other players were seen as floating orbs who you couldn't really interact with and had no effect on your world but with the Next update they added fully 3D crafted character models along with a third person camera so you could finally see your character. This update also released the same day as the Xbox release of No Man Sky bringing in a large new group of players to the game like myself.

YASS I HAVE BEEN WAITING FOR THIS I am so glad I got to watch you react to the fan fic!!!

It's amazing what a passionate game dev can do when not pressured by a publisher.

I'm sorry but your reaction to the fanfiction was everything I was hoping it would be and more X'D

Since the video was released 3 years ago the game has received a dozen updates, so you can imagine how much has been added and why people love Hello Games and No man's sky. Definitely the greatest comeback in videogame history

Procedural generation basically means automatic creation (often called "random generation", though not entirely random). Developers usually use it for things that can't be reasonably created manually, like an entire planet for example (can't expect someone to manually create every square foot of a planet).

BTW: Skipping the advertisement is a capital offense in Internet Historian reactions. It IS content to a lot of people. Also he prefers people to watch them. He’s even mocked a streamer who skips his adverts mid advert because the guy would never see it.

And Hello Games is still releasing content for the game(a new patch and Expedition just went live two weeks ago)without charging a dime extra for it. I think at this point, if HG announced a paid expansion of some sort, people would gladly throw money at their screens just to say thank you. The good news is that every time they release a new update to the game, sales to new players continue to grow. It really is the best kind of redemption story.

Good video Great reaction❤ ending part was fun af lmao.

yay finally the fun part of the video. I love a good comeback story.

I love your vids Hannah ❤

I love this to bits ❤

This video is a rollercoaster of emotions

Thought for sure you were gonna cut at the fanfic lol but credit to you for sitting through that xD

Lol this was great😊 I’d love to see Hannah’s reaction to internet historians my immortal reading🤣

I saw the sting of you cringing at the start and was like “oh why I don’t remember it ending poorly for Shawn- ohhhh… oh that’s right…”

Trust me. That last bit of the video just never gets old from being the wild shit I've ever watched and listened to. 🤣🤣🤣

I discovered you via this reaction. This video is now several years old but no man's sky continues to go from strength to strength. To date their have now been 25 updates, the latest being approx 2 weeks ago. It's now on the switch (which is nothing short of miraculous by the way) as well as psvr2 and ps5 and Xbox and Pc and there is genuinely 18 quintillion whole planets to explore (needless to say more , way way more than anyone could actually explore in their entire lifetime.) . I've peeked at you playing some other games and this could be a great fit for you. It's not too heavy on the enemies trying to kill you aspect but the exploration, things to do, build and craft and missions and story line and trading and ..ooo my gosh there's so much to do! But you do what you want when you want, it's actually a pretty chill game.things it Can be mildly confusing in the first couple of hours as it slowly teaches you how to play but it will get it's teeth into you as you slowly discover more about yourself and the universe you are in . In short I would love to watch you discover this game . Sorry for the long post, thanks for reading.

Thanks Hannah!

part 3! the conclusion to the trilogy, it's here!!!!!! :D

That was hilarious during the fan fic part lol Plss react to more internet historian its awesome

New favorite reaction vid

This video is now 3 years old and they never stopped. There was another update a few weeks ago that added new story content.

Watching the expectation and excitement turn to abject horror is always my favorite part of people reacting to the fan fiction segment. 😂

I just ordered the Blood kin and curses paperback. Looking forward to reading it😊

Haha! I’ve watched the original video several times, and seem a bunch of reactions to it as well, and just by seeing the opening to your video, I know exactly which part of his video you’re reacting to at that moment! 😂 Also, I remember hearing somewhere, that when this video came out, Sean Murray actually shared it on twitter, and said something like, “this video is amazing! Just don’t watch the last five minutes.” 😂

You can see the exact point in the video when Hannah starts to feel bad for Sean lol. I had the same feeling. I lauded this game when it first released and now it’s one of the greats.

You should totally watch more from this guy

After launch there was a lot of voices in the community who asked Hello games to spend some of their earnings on a PR guy/girl. As far as I'm aware they haven't hired one yet. Sean is brilliant at making games that is what he should do..

At the end, she was like Mabel in that one episode of Gravity Falls. "Goodbye, childhood."

I don't know why it amuses me so much. I have a friend who reacts with physical pain to cringe and I always find the best stuff to show him, just like this ending.

I think I would have cut out the fanfic bit at the end but I respect your decision of "If I had to see it so do all ya'll". 😂

Never skip his ads in the future, they're hilarious

You should really do Internet Historian's documentary on Fallout 76. I believe that's his only other video game centered documentary but, really all his docs are fantastic. "Hole" is a work of art and his videos on the Costa Concordia, Balloon Boy and Fyre Festival are also great.

procedural generation is, in games, essentially setting an algorithmic framework that allows the game to randomly generate areas, creatures, or other content within limits. This creates a hands-off approach but allows for a much larger amount of content to be produced by a much smaller time. Which is one of the biggest reasons No Man's Sky was so hyped-up at launch. Potentially boundless content.

You should definitely give No Man’s Sky a go, it’s a nice chill experience

This video is a couple years old and a bit outdated, after 7 years since realease they are still working on the game and it honestly became one of the best games out there when it comes to pure content and stuff to do. It keeps you hooked for dozens of hours and just with the main missions and storyline you're looking at 60h of gameplay. Which easily turns into hundreds of them with the sheer amount of sidequests and optional content. Its awesome Thank you for the reaction, it was definitely one of the most entertaining to watch, specially for someone who isnt very into the gaming world, you still managed to follow the video really well and focus on the important bits. Good luck with your books!

"That escalated quickly. I mean it really got out of hand."

procedural generation is when content, mostly landscape, level geometry and so on, (the world) is not created individually and purpose build by an artist, but rather algorithmically or "procedurally" on demand or up front with in certain parameters but generally with a heavy random aspect. the automated part might only pull from a set of pre created components of variable granularity (tree meshes, color variations of texturen, creatures, or even whole predefined building complexes, randomly placed in a procedural generated landscape around them etc) but there is, at least in theory, the possibility to create anything from scratch given the right instruction set and method of randomization.

There has probably been like 10 more big updates since this the Internet Historian video was posted.

Procedural generation is what allows games to be so huge. In computer science and game development, it's quite obvious it's impossible to fit so much content and data like 13 bazillion planets and etc and models and even make that stuff in the first place. Procedural generation basically has given assets and possible traits for in-game beings, maps, buildings, etc. And when you explore an area or whatever, the program generates new things, randomly for you. It procedurally generates new stuff as you go further into the game, while it also compresses downscales or deletes and saves for the next time you come back to the previous things generated. And that stuff can also be forever imbedded into the game if it's a full MMO type. There's a game I forgot it's name, but basically it has probably the closest scale to the milky way, by the amount of stuff it's meant to generate. And even with all the people that played it, it's obviously not been fully explored. Whenever a player discovers a new planet in that game, that data is saved and compressed forever, so that the next player that discovers it, won't actually be discovering anything new, it's a thing that's been already discovered by someone else and saved onto a server system. Of course you can imagine how much compression and servers you need for such a realistic game. Although I think combining multiple methods of how games load saves money and server usage. In games, what you don't see, doesn't exist... well to an extent, because if everything constantly generates 100% RANDOMLY. You get Cyberpunk NPC's. In Cyberpunk 2077, there was a big issue with NPC's loading different models when they have to be loaded for the player when he's looking at them. You could look at some old dude, turn around, turn back at him, next thing you know it's not an old man anymore but some hot chick.

The freak out at the end was worth having to listen to that fan fic again

Started the game a few days ago and I've barely slept since. Now thats how to do a comeback. Bethesda, take notes.

On procedural generation: There are essentially 2 ways to design a game world, or really any piece of art. The first is for it to be completely handcrafted, every detail painstakingly made by some individual or team. The second is to create a system of building blocks with certain rules as to how they should fit together. An extremely reductive but maybe useful analogy would be the difference between writing an entire story where every detail is known prior to publication and edited or placed intentionally vs. writing a template for Mad Libs, where the details are filled in by users or by a computer. There are different levels of procedural generation. In games such as Noita or Minecraft, where individual pixels or voxels (3D pixels) are simulated with physical properties, then the process of procedural generation is a bit like putting LEGO bricks together, restricted by some broad guidelines. Other games, such as Starfield, may have human creators make modules such as hallways, bedrooms, cafeterias, etc., and then an algorithm arranges those modules again based on certain rules. This module-like approach reminds me of playing board games like Betrayal at House on the Hill, where the rooms of the house are all premade, and players have fairly broad rules as to where they can go. Usually, the more granular the procedural generation, the less guided the player experience is. In either case, central and story-important locations are usually entirely handcrafted and placed into the world, and then procedural generation is used to fill in the gaps. Or else, those central and story-important locations may be larger modules, and then smaller modules are used to fill in the gaps. For example, supposed that you had to make a 3D space that represented the area from New York City to Los Angeles. That's a huge area, and it'd be crazy for anyone to create a 1:1 representation of the real world. Instead, creators might handcraft all of their representation of major cities such as New York and LA, and then use rules for procedural generation to fill in the space in between. The fact that there must only be one Statue of Liberty, for example, shows how certain important landmarks may be handcrafted and placed individually, whereas suburban_house_05 can be copy-pasted hundreds of times across the map, even placed by computer, and people probably wouldn't complain too much.

Time to learn about Bots and Gold Farming. “RuneScape players are hunting down Venezuelans” And “ChatGPT is about to destroy RuneScape” I know I suggested these before, but they were at the bottom of a TLDR, so nobody probably saw them.

The work they put into the game is absolutely astounding and I was one of those that scoffed a lot toward Sean and his interviews at the beginning, and when the real story came out about the whole situation it was *wild* Also, should watch the Final Fantasy XIV redemption arc after this :D

Your reaction to the fan fic was the reaction most reviewers had of the no man sky release

Yeah, the big finale... oh boy...

Hannah came for the Engoodening, she stayed for the fanfic.

I just looked there is around 22 BIG updates since the internet Historian video was released we are at Echoes v4.44 and the last update he mentioned was Synthesis which was v2.2 at release.

It's only mentioned once, but I would like to point out how big Hello Games adding VR support to No Man's Sky was ij terms of community rapport. He showed a screenshot where games like Fallout and Skyrim were basically just re-released as VR games at full price alongside the normal controller/mouse-and-keyboard version. Getting for free what other companies resell like it's a whole new game is huge.

Procedural generation, as I understand it, is that you make the game generate content like levels, what enemies to put there, items etc. by itself, by drawing from a set of rules the devs give it. Sort of like playing with legos, where you can put things together in fairly unique ways from a set of predetermined blocks.

I wonder how she'd react to one of Summoning Salt's videos. She's already seen a couple speedruns, but to look more into the culture around them and how they evolve may interest her.

This is a cool story. There are some cool video game industry stories like that. Passionate nerds who failed and came back. There are some horrible corporate nightmares too. It is the biggest entertainment industry after all.

Perfect just got to work. I love this video lmao. You should also check out the Fallout 76 one he did.

This is the definitive redemption ark in gaming.

I can't help but notice you recognize that couch.

from your opening reaction...... you reached the fanfic section XD

I’m not a member, so don’t expect a reply. That being said, I got No Man’s Sky when it came out on Xbox, despite all the negative crud I saw on the internet. Yes it was buggy, yes there were problems, but I still actually enjoyed playing. Then I lost home WiFi due to budget restrictions and reduced income, and wasn’t able to play online or update my console & games. A few years later (2023) I found there was a free WiFi signal my Xbox could connect to, so got my Xbox updated, then seen updates for No Man’s Sky and got that done. Then I started playing No Man’s Sky again…… I was absolutely blown away, so much more stuff, and FOR FREE! I’m a 58 year old Cold War Era Army Veteran who loves video games, mostly Military style First person shooters or “blow crud up and kill people” games, but No Man’s Sky has become my favorite game to play.

It's a brilliant video that truly shows the fantastic redemption of the team at Hello Games, and also shows Sony to be the real villain by forcing the release schedule on them rather than letting them delay a proper amount of time. P.S. Wow that last bit was both shocking and hilarious xD

I would highly recommended also watching a video called "This character has made people religious" by Leon talks a lot, it is a deep dive on one of the best written characters in video game history

This video, as good as it is, have one of the most harrowing endings in youtube history .

The ending is so epic LMAO

What's even better is they are still updating the game they brought out a big new update in the end of Augusts and another update about a week ago.

Being horrified by fanfiction is an internet classic.

So this is a success story in the end and a definite warning to other game makers not to do but also how to improve your game post launch

I still play No Man's Sky. Sean is still releasing free updates to the game, expeditions in game when you complete them you unlock cool stuff in the game.

More Internet Historian!!!!

How you moved in the beginning is how I move when I can't figure out if I have to fart really bad or am about to shit my pants

You should watch a video on the "Bloodbath of B-R5RB" for a long time it was the largest battle consisting of players in video game history and a really interesting story.