Greene’s called his mods for the Arma series and DayZ 'Battle Royale ' Polygon reports that he named them after the 2000 Japanese film of the same name, which in turn was based on the 1999 book by Koushun Takami. This experience served as the groundwork for Greene’s teaming with developer Bluehole for what would become PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds. Kotaku reports that Greene’s transformation of these popular shooters caused others in the industry to take notice, and Sony Online Entertainment (now known as Daybreak Game Company) brought him in to consult on what would become H1Z1: King of the Kill. However, Greene didn’t start designing games until he was into his thirties, and even then he was developing mods for existing games like Arma 2 and its offshoot, DayZ. Rolling Stone reports that Greene actually began his career as a photographer and graphic designer, and he later utilized the design skills he had used creating webpages to get his start in game design. We tend to think of game developers as wunderkinds: those who grew up on the classics and start coding at a very early age.

Who is PlayerUnknown?īrendan Greene is the man behind the PlayerUnknown moniker, and he actually fell into game development later than most. Let’s delve in and take a look at some of the most noteworthy aspects of PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds since its release to Steam Early Access in March 2017. Whether you live and breathe PUBG or you just can’t understand why it is so darn popular, you cannot deny the impact the game has had on our pop culture landscape. Kotaku and Venture Beat report that even huge, AAA franchises like Call of Duty and Battlefield are open to the possibility of battle royale modes. Many games have followed in its footsteps and are looking to incorporate elements of the battle royale genre that PUBG brought into the mainstream. Steam Charts indicates that PUBG topped out at over three million concurrent players on Steam in January 2018, and it has continued to see millions of players in the months that followed PUBG currently dominates the gaming landscape like few games ever have. It did not take long for PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds (or PUBG, as it is more commonly known) to take the gaming world by storm.

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