LogInWinning a jackpot 10 times in a row or an act of spontaneous teleportation are more likely than two identical toilets spawning on the same level.
Some video games win over fans with engaging gameplay, others carve their names into the annals of gaming history with unforgettable stories that resonate for decades, some go all-in on graphical advancements to deliver stunning visual spectacles unlike anything released before, and then there's Dream Game, a work-in-progress indie project by developer Damp Squid that boasts perhaps the most bizarrely brilliant asset imaginable: a near-endless toilet generator.
Forget No Man's Sky with its trillions of planets or Minecraft, where each world is roughly 24 times the size of Earth's landmass – for Dream Game, the developer has set up a special Unreal Engine 5-powered toilet generator capable of producing more than 17 quadrillion unique variations, an effectively infinite number as far as humans are concerned.
When generating a toilet, the system blends various parameters, including part visibility, seat positions, decals, tint, and – putting it mildly – the contents, resulting in a staggering 17.23 quadrillion combinations. For context, Dream Game is designed as a backrooms-inspired exploration experience featuring environments like bathrooms, a school, tunnels, and a dark road, so the purpose of this peculiar system is to make sure that each bathroom environment stands out from the others at least in some ways.
To hammer home just how big of a number 17 quadrillion is, the developer provided some fascinating comparisons:
"If I put 100 of them in my level, there's a 0.0000000000287% chance two of them will be the same. That's about 100,000 times less likely than winning the Powerball jackpot 10 times in a row. And about 250 billion times less likely than an asteroid impact ending civilization!
In quantum mechanics, there's a nonzero probability of all the atoms in your body spontaneously shifting to the other side of a wall. The odds of this happening even once in the entire age of the universe are still far greater than my toilets duplicating."
The previous iteration of Damp Squid's asset featured a measly 1,728 combinations:
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