DevTracker: About Galaxy

We don't need the whole universe, just the Milky Way. Igor Terentjev is the lead programmer on Elite: Dangerous and one of the people that were working secretly on the project, long before the idea of running a Kickstarter campaign was even suggested. As lead programmer the colossal task of procedurally generating an entire galaxy fell on his shoulders, here is his own account as to how he went about it.