Brendan “PlayerUnknown” Greene, greatest identified for creating the landmark battle royale sport PUBG, outlined an bold plan for his growth studio to provide three bold titles, together with one which goals to help 100v100-player multiplayer matches.
Chatting with Eurogamer, Greene detailed the roughly 10-year plan for his studio, which was established in 2019 and is just known as PlayerUnknown Productions. The primary sport from the event group is Prologue: Go Wayback, a single-player survival roguelike that duties you with navigating worlds generated by machine-learning know-how. It will be obtainable in early entry beginning November 20. Greene has said up to now that he expects gamers to hate the sport at first.
The second deliberate sport from the studio “goals to check restricted multiplayer, possibly as much as 100 versus 100 gamers,” Greene informed Eurogamer. Describing the untitled undertaking as “extra of an FPS/RTS combine,” the sport would take a look at terrain technology, NPC interactions, and community protocols on giant scales.
Then, the studio’s third sport could be a extra inventive title, taking ideas from the primary two video games and permitting gamers to “create their very own planets” for varied makes use of, like a player-created FPS sport, for instance.
At the moment, the second sport exists as “basic high-level plans,” however it would use PlayerUnknown Productions’ proprietary engine Melba, which makes use of machine-learning instruments (in any other case often called AI) to create Earth-like planets in actual time.
In response to Greene, the studio has “a basic thought of how lengthy it would take to get to Sport Two” with the expectation of engaged on it for “one other two, three, 4 years, possibly longer.” Greene described the bigger three-game undertaking as a 10-year plan.
Greene has been far faraway from PUBG: Battlegrounds for a while, leaving PUBG developer Krafton in 2021 to give attention to his new initiatives.
Massive-scale multiplayer initiatives like Greene’s proposed title are a rarity nowadays; battle royales typically have 60 to 120 gamers on the identical map, whereas trendy shooters like Battlefield 6 solely help as much as 64 gamers max in a match. Previous-school PlayStation 3 gamers would possibly keep in mind MAG, which supported 128v128 matches, however PlayerUnknown Productions’ sport actually has completely different technical ambitions with its world technology.