"What's the smallest and most neat thing we can do?": Nothing says what Hello Games will do next

Hello Games could work well to put No Man's Sky Beyond at the door – the ambitious new expansion of No Man's Sky, which will redesign multiplayer systems and offer full VR game support – but it is also beginning to appear towards its future. The studio is working on a new game, which the studio's co-founder, Sean Murray, said earlier in the year would be "big, ambitious and silly."

Aside from this comment, the new project has been shrouded in mystery. One thing is certain though: it will be neither smaller nor less ambitious than No Man's Sky. It was not always like that. In fact, as Murray explained to me today [link to feature that is going live today] In an interview that explored the studio's approach between stress and ambition, he noted that "Hello Games" once played with the creation of a much smaller game than anything else. 39, he could create before.

Beyond the no man's sky

"Well, we've had literal conversations about what we're going to do next, and there have been some thoughts – there certainly was a conversation – of maybe we should do something really small," he said. Murray at GamesRadar. "Something that would really surprise people … we've gone from the greatest game of all time, so what's the smallest, most neat thing we can do?"

It is clear that Murray wanted to get back to basics with this new project – which is in its early stages of incubation and prototyping at the time of writing – but it is honest in acknowledging that " we could have focused on [doing] that, but we even knew from these early conversations that we would have found a way to make this nightmare for ourselves. "

This is part of the Hello Games design process and we have deepened the subject with Murray in the aforementioned interview. That said, it must be recognized that anything that comes out of the studio once completed with No Man's Sky will not be less ridiculous. The team is eager to do things that no one else has done, that no studio dares to try. It will work? Well, it's all part of the fun. As Murray says, "Let's do something really crazy and ambitious!"

You are not ready to let No Man's Sky out of your life? Why not read our practical report with No Man's Sky Beyond, the virtual reality game I've been waiting for all my life.