Love - Preview @ 1UP

A preview of Eskil Steenberg's one-man MMO project, Love, has been released at 1UP:

Steenberg works in the realm of procedural game design, a technique you've already seen at work in the likes of Spore, wherein the game itself (not the game's maker) builds worlds, creates creatures, and defines the way they behave. Think of it like this: In a normal game, if a designer wants an oak tree in the world, he has an artist create every inch of it, from root to leaf, by hand. In a procedural game, the designer creates just the seed of that tree, and all the tiny details of its existence, from the way light reflects off its bark to what happens when you drive a car into it, are defined by that seed. The double-sided benefit of such a technique is that game designers can create a huge amount of content in little time, and the objects and possibilities procedural programs produce can be far more varied and numerous than any big-budget army of developers could create the old-fashioned way.