My username probably tells you that I'm a fan of No Man's Sky. I'm, well... quite intrigued by it, but not really a huge fan, due to the fact that the game is quite lack-luster as of now. I stumbled upon Powder Toy while thinking about the potential of NMS. Imagine that the kind of stuff you can do in Powder Toy was applied in NMS, and so the possibilities could really be endless.

The biggest issue I see with this of course is the rendering. Even if the chemistry is very much simplified like in Powder Toy (I keep wanting to say powder cake for some reason... I now wonder if you can make a powder cake in powder toy), the rendering could still be a huge issue, if you want atmospheres of planets being made of gases and various plants and animals being comprised of various mixtures, while at the same time the surfaces and inner parts of planets being made of liquids and solids. I mean, Powder toy already can drop in frames if you have a full screen of active fire, imagine how it would be in a semi-low poly 3D game that has a lot being rendered already and that still has pop-ins to render everything within 8GB of ram.

I just like to think how games like Powder Toy could be more prevalent and more popular if it wasn't for the rendering limitations. So many awesome possibilities! I mean, I saw in a video that someone had already made a basic computer machine with powdertoy, which is fenomenal!

Anyway, the point of the topic is whether you think such mechanics would be possible to render within a game like NMS in any form. This, I'm sure would be quite revolutionary if it were to happen and I'm sure the gameplay would be much more exciting as a result as well, as you could make your own vehicles, ships and weapons from scratch and if combined with a more advanced proceduarl generation, well, you could possibly have something truly amazing. So what do you think?

NOTE: Title character limit is a bit short, would have been a bit more descriptive if it was longer, but oh well.