Brandon Green is Is largely credited with making the Player Unknown’s Battlegrounds also known as Pubg And invented the entire battle royale genre. We knew he left PUBG’s publisher To create an independent studio Back in 2021, but now we know what he’s been working on for the past few years.
His studio, Player Unknown Productions, is producing a handful of titles in what he refers to as “an ambitious three-game plan.” First of all, there is a Prologue: Go back! Which is described as “a single-player open-world emerging game within the survival genre”. It uses the developer’s “in-house machine-learning-powered terrain generation technology” to create “millions of maps”. As seen below, these maps are also easy on the eyes.
We don’t know much about the gameplay other than details and the aforementioned terrain creation techniques. However, it is available Wishlist now on Steam The company says it will launch as an early access title in the first half of next year after a series of playtests.
There’s also an excellent looking tech demo Prologue called: The Undiscovered WorldIt’s free and Available to download nowThis demo is being released to showcase the company’s in-house game engine, called Melba. Preface Allows players to explore “an Earth-scale world generated in real-time”.
Green says this “digital planet is still quite empty, but every person who logs in and shares their feedback contributes to its future development.” For this purpose, the Melba engine will be used to develop other games in the future.
The name of one such future game is Artemis Which is described as a “massive multiplayer sandbox experience”. We don’t know much about the title, except that it’s likely to take several years. Green says his company’s Two unannounced games will be released after Prologue: Go back! Each of these will address “key technical challenges” that will help the development of more ambitious ones. Artemis In any case, it looks like PlayerUnknown Productions is definitely off to a promising start.
