Preview: No Man's Sky's Infinite Soundtrack

The game that has been turning head since it was announced in 2014 is the action survival game that is set in an open universe, No Man's Sky. This game is also set to release in June of 2016 on PlayStation 4. When I say open universe, I mean that the is 18,446,744,073,709,551,616 planets to explore. That's right over 18 quintillion different planets that has there own ecosystems, climate, animals, and topography. The game designers, Hello Games, didn't individually create each planet, but created a program that produces a procedurally generated universe. The program creates a planet then puts the according plant and wildlife on the planet that would fit the ecosystem and does that 18 quintillion times. Sean Murry, Hello Games Managing Director, was quoted on The Late Show With Stephen Colbert that even if a planet was discovered every minute we would all be dead before every planet would be discovered and personally that is an incredible and mind exploding thought.

The accompany and infinite universe, Hello Games hired a post-rock band named 65daysofstatic and Paul Weir. The idea behind the music in this game is 65daysofstatic would create melodies, loops, textures, and sounds and Paul Weir put these into a program that would randomly create a music to accompany the gameplay. On top of all that the music would also change in the game when approaching different terrains and whether the player is in high or low danger. The members 65daysofstatic was quoted by The Guardian saying that the idea that people could visit these planets that no one in the world has ever been to before and hear a version of the song that no one else will hear and we haven’t heard before, is so exciting.

Since the game is not released yet there are only a few samples of the music that No Man's Sky has to offer. There is a song that will be on the soundtrack that was released and 65daysofstatic played at a PlayStation Experience 2014 and gave the audience and example of what the soundtrack might sound like. So check those out if you are interested and I will update this again when the game is released. Thanks for reading and keep on jammin'.