No Man's Sky doesn't have a story, but it does have lore, and the involvement of Watchmen artist, Dave Gibbons and author James Swallow who has written for Star Trek, Doctor Who, and many other science fiction properties.
Hello Games showed off a surprising amount of No Man's Sky this weekend, and the latest piece to surface shows how a level generates from nothing to become something.
Hello Games' recently visited Stephen Colbert to show off No Man's Sky. Now, he's showing off the game on another platform similarly unaffiliated with video games with The New Yorker.