Digital Reconstruction of Digital Heritage
There was an older Parthenon at the site of the Parthenon we know today, which stands atop the Acropolis of Athens. This “proto-Parthenon” was built after the Battle of Marathon […]
The Clustered Bases of Nohash Patieme
No one lives on Nohash Patieme anymore, yet the toxic, fungus-ruled planet is overpopulated with procedurally generated habitats, structures, and trash. This is the first planet (out of literally hundreds) […]
A Quiet Place: Mortham
ZeusJones opened his Gravatino Host and NipNip Buds farm in May 2017, three months before Atlas Rises reconfigured his planet. Unlike his fellow Galactic Hub settlers, it would appear that […]
New Athena: A Prelude to War
Introduction The Harsh Buds War of April 27, 2017, was the first major conflict between factions of human players in No Man’s Sky. KingJamesHova and the Hova Empire’s conflict with Bez-Harr […]
NMS Field Report: No More Butter for the King?
The most interesting thing about investigating ButterBase 1.3 was not what I did find, but the promise of what I would discover. I had heard about a Temple, which was […]
La Cage aux Folles in Space
Asphodel and its only surviving base have changed between its founding in April 2017 and the Atlas Rises event in August. The Birdcage once shared a planet with other player […]
The Wandering Ruins of Elebor
No logic can describe what happened to the Longitude Base of Elebor. On arrival, the planet tossed me back into space (see video below). On return, the base appeared in […]
The Base Paradox of Beecham’s Pearl Island
Ty Beecham’s Pearl Island was built in May 2017, two months after the release of the Pathfinder update in No Man’s Sky. When constructed, the base was built on a literal […]
The Curious Case of the Bez-Harr Concern
The Bez-Harr Embassy is the first ruin in the Legacy Hub that I have visited twice, separated by a period of eight months. I wanted to see if anything had […]
Player Agency and Understanding the Base/No-Base Paradox in No Man’s Sky
UPDATED May 14, 2018, 20:30 Remove the long, dangly bit from the cup of tea and take the tea. Then, take the “no tea” that you dropped when you got […]
The Mystery of the Missing Pearl Farm
Introduction In March 22, 2017, hollyworks became the 12th player to arrive at the newly founded Galactic Hub in No Man’s Sky, putting her roots down on Didiophoek-5 TT736, which she renamed “Holly’s […]
Archaeology, Agency, and Ethics in No Man’s Sky
Over the next ten minutes or so, I will address how my mere presence in a digital space makes things happen in that space, how I have created an […]
The Ziggurat Tomb of Planet Horner
A ziggurat sat under the desert hardpan of Horner, only the top few meters of its upper story giving a clue as to what was under the dry, packed earth. […]
Remote Sensing in Synthetic Landscapes
UPDATED: 4:15, MAY 7, 2017 The abandoned, ruined structure on the planet Horner in the procedurally generated universe of No Man’s Sky was player-made. I know this because the structure is marked with […]
Ghost World: The Haunted Base of Abundance (RIP)
Ghost World Once upon a time on Abundance, the warm wind blew the tops of the purple tallgrass of Vodeye and shook the red-leaf canopy of the Hieksa Forest. […]
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