Brendan Green, better known as PlayerUnknown, announced last year that he and his studio were working on an exciting new open world title, and we now have a tech demo for it. Green shared some of his vision for the next game, sharing that he hopes to create massive open-world games through procedural generation.
The newest tech demo shared by Green is a proof of concept from early last year. The demo shows a seemingly huge “world the size of a planet”created using procedural generation. While generating independent worlds via procedural generation isn’t exactly a new concept (see No Man’s Sky), it certainly looks pretty exciting.
Brendan Green, also known as PlayerUnknown, left his post at Krafton and went independent with a brand new studio in Amsterdam called PlayerUnknown Studio. The studio teased the upcoming Prologue project as an exploration of new technologies and gameplay. This tech demo is definitely proof of that.
Studio PlayerUnknown has shared a new teaser of a huge world the size of a planet
PlayerUnknown is based in Amsterdam, but still has ties to Crafton. The South Korean publisher will own a minority stake in the studio. The studio is also currently hiring.
Prologue is the studio’s upcoming open-world survival game that has been confirmed as the next major project from PlayerUnknown, and this open-world game certainly looks like it lives up to its claim of containing “planet-sized”worlds. The tech demo shows just how incredibly dense and massive procedurally generated worlds can be.
Green and his team will likely reveal more about the game later in the year as we still don’t have a gameplay trailer. For now, this tech demo and brief teaser is pretty much all we’ve seen of PlayerUnkown’s next major project.