This Made Elon Musk Question If We Live In A Video Game

If a video game impresses Elon Musk, the founder of Tesla Motors Inc TSLA and SpaceX, it has to be something special.

The new game is called "No Man's Sky." It comes from British studio Hello Games, which created the popular "Joe Danger" franchise.

"No Man's Sky" is a forthcoming science-fiction game about exploration and survival in an infinite procedurally-generated universe, which includes over 18 quintillion planets, many with their own set of flora and fauna.

Players take the role of a planetary explorer in "No Man's Sky," whose code size runs to 600,000 lines. The players will be collecting information from the planets to upload to The Atlas, a galactic database.

Hello Games' co-founder Sean Murray said Musk asked, "What are the chances that we're living in a simulation?"

Murray replied:

"Even if it is a simulation, it's a good simulation, so we shouldn't question it. I'm working on my dream game, for instance. I'm more happy than I am sad. Whoever is running the simulation must be smarter than I am, and since they've created a nice one, then presumably they are benevolent and want good things for me."

Murray said "No Man's Sky" is different than most games because the landscapes and distances aren't faked. While most space-based games utilize a skybox that simply rotates between different modalities, "No Man's Sky" is virtually limitless and employs real physics.

The game will be released in June 2016 on Sony's PS4 and Microsoft Windows.