[djmips]

Minecraft works like this. The camera is the world origin when rendering.

[bullen]

It's easy when you have chunks.

But really all large worlds need chunking.

The real reason AAA never got into user generated content, is they have staff to create linear worlds.

After this economic crisis, linear content will more or less disappear.

Why listen to a hardcoded story when you can make your own just like in real life?

Scarcity is the key, one UGC networked world will make time valuable.

[danhau]

Don't all games do this? The camera is by definition the world space origin, (0, 0, 0). Translating the camera right actually means translating the world left. What does Minecraft do different?

[djmips]

Camera is not be definition the world space origin.