Brendan Greene is largely credited with making the enduring PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds, also referred to as PUBG, and inventing your complete battle royale style. We knew he left PUBG’s writer to kind an unbiased studio again in 2021, however now we all know what he’s been engaged on the previous few years.
His studio, PlayerUnknown Productions, is prepping a handful of titles, which it refers to as “an ambitious three-game plan.” First up, there’s Prologue: Go Wayback!, which is described as “a single-player open-world emergent game within the survival genre.” It makes use of the developer’s “in-house machine-learning-driven terrain generation technology” to create “millions of maps.” These maps are additionally straightforward on the eyes, as seen beneath.
We don’t know a lot concerning the gameplay, past the outline and the aforementioned terrain technology expertise. Nonetheless, it’s obtainable to wishlist proper now on Steam. The corporate says it’ll launch as an early entry title someday within the first half of subsequent 12 months, following a sequence of playtests.
There’s additionally a nifty-looking tech demo referred to as Preface: Undiscovered World. It’s free and obtainable to obtain proper now. This demo is being launched to showcase the corporate’s in-house recreation engine, referred to as Melba. Preface permits gamers to discover an “Earth-scale world generated in real-time.”
Greene says that this “digital planet is still quite empty for now, but every person who enters it and shares their feedback, contributes to its future development.” To that finish, the Melba engine shall be used to develop different video games sooner or later.
One such future recreation is named Artemis, which is described as a “massive multiplayer sandbox experience.” We don’t know a complete lot concerning the title, besides that it’s possible years away. Greene says that his firm shall be releasing two unannounced video games after Prologue: Go Wayback! that can every deal with “critical technical challenges” that can assist with the event of the extra bold Artemis. In any occasion, it appears like PlayerUnknown Productions is definitely off to a promising begin.
