Light No Fire was first revealed over two years in the past at the 2023 Game Awards. It was the subsequent open-world survival recreation from Hey Video games, the studio behind No Man’s Sky. It will commerce the galaxy-spanning sci-fi journey of the previous for a brand new fantasy RPG expertise that encompassed a massive simulation of a planet. Followers are hyped, however we’ve seen nothing for the reason that preliminary trailer. Director Sean Murray says that wasn’t the unique plan.
“I believed we’d have chatted about it extra by now,” Murray informed me in an interview final week, a part of a victory lap to mark the tenth anniversary of No Man’s Sky for a studio that hardly ever does press. “We dropped a trailer like two years in the past, two and a half years in the past, and I had a plan of like, ‘OK, we’ll do that. We’ll tease it. Proper?’ It’s how I noticed that 90-second trailer. After which I used to be like, ‘OK, and now I do know what we’ll present subsequent. We’ll actually clarify the sport.’”
He had deliberate to supply a deeper dive into what gamers will really spend their time doing in Gentle No Fireplace roughly six months later at Summer time Sport Fest 2024. As a substitute, the sport has been a no-show at each Geoff Keighley showcase since 2023.
“I had really supposed that we have been going to point out it six months later, however, you understand, we’ve like shot up the Steam wishlist charts; we‘re like quantity two on there. And I used to be similar to, ‘OK, that’s sufficient. You know, we don’t must say any extra. Why? Why do any advertising?”
Again when he was launching No Man’s Sky, a PlayStation 4 unique on the time, Murray was in every single place, together with late-night speak reveals. The whirlwind ended up getting the sport into bother, with the launch model failing to dwell as much as the hype as fans debated missing features and empty planets.
“I look again and it’s insanity, Murray stated. “I kind of cringe at it.”
Within the decade since, No Man’s Sky has change into the quintessential post-launch redemption story in gaming. Murray doesn’t must go on Stephen Colbert to get folks excited any extra. A easy emoji on Twitter is sufficient to send entire subreddits spiraling with speculation.
Murray says he sits and performs Gentle No Fireplace “most days,” and the sport’s tech is incessantly talked about in updates about new options for No Man’s Sky. He wouldn’t tease a launch window, and even affirm if he has an thought in his personal head of when the sport will probably be prepared, however he did say that the workforce at Hey Video games, which is just round 50 staff, has been “prepared” to point out extra of it for some time.
“I don’t suppose folks understand simply how formidable it’s and the way loopy it’s,” he informed Kotaku. “And I stay up for folks discovering that out and to exhibiting them. However I’m very completely happy proper now simply engaged on it in my very own little cave and never having to fret about something, attempting to faux the skin world doesn’t exist proper now.”