An Elite Dangerous player discovered a way to write new stories into the margins of the 12-year-old space sandbox, and now thousands are testing it (www.pcgamer.com)

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How the nearly 9,000 players on the Distant Worlds 3 expedition are contributing to the birth of something new.

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[-] tiny_hedgehog@piefed.social 7 points 2 days ago

Elite Dangerous was always a game that was oceanic in breadth but puddle-deep in depth. This looks like a cool meta tool to make it more interesting and deeper. I’d be keen to play.

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