Five years later, PUBG creator PlayerUnknown finally reveals his massive open-world survival game projects, aiming for "realistic worlds thousands of kilometers wide" across three games
Dec. 5, 2024And there’s a tech demo you can play right now
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PUBG creator Brendan Greene, better known by his moniker ‘PlayerUnknown’ has unveiled a new three-game plan, as well as a tech demo that’s available now.
If you want an early look at some of what Greene and his team have been working on before those playtests, however, you’ll want to look at Preface: Undiscovered World. A free tech-demo that’s available today on Steam, Greene says that Preface shows off “an Earth-scale world generated in real-time.” It sounds as though there’s not much to see right now, but the feedback provided here will eventually power future games, like third and final announcement: Project Artemis.
Artemis is the least-defined of the three reveals Greene is making today. In a press release, he says his vision for the project is “challenging, but we plan to take it one step at a time.” Once the three games are complete - two more “are planned for release in the coming years” after Prologue - Artemis will ensure that the studio will have “a solid tech foundation on which to scale up.” Prologue, it seems, is just the start, an attempt to “introduce” players to the emergent worlds that Greene is creating.
On itswebsite, the studio says that the goal of Artemis “is to be able to procedurally generate realistic worlds thousands of kilometres wide as rich and textured as the real world,” and the proceed “to let thousands of people loose onto these giant maps.” I’m reminded ofLight No Fire, the new game from the No Man’s Sky team, which similarly intends to create giant worlds to allow players to explore with minimal limitations.
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