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Brendan Greene
Video game designer, video game director
Known forPUBG: Battlegrounds

Brendan Greene (born March 29, 1976), better known as PlayerUnknown, is an Irish video game developer. He is best known for his work on PUBG: Battlegrounds. He left active development on the game to form PUBG Special Projects and PlayerUnknown Productions in March 2019.[1][2]

Career

In 2013, Greene was living in Brazil as an event photographer and freelance website designer.[3] While trying to save up enough money to buy a plane ticket back to Ireland, he found himself playing video games, particularly the open world survival DayZ mod for Arma 2. He modded the game himself, working under the pseudonym "PlayerUnknown". After experimenting with last-man-standing gameplay, in 2013, he eventually released a mod called DayZ: Battle Royale, named after the 2000 Japanese sci-fi film Battle Royale.[4]

PlayerUnknown's Battle Royale (Arma 3 mod)

After the release of Arma 3, Greene started working on a modification for the game, named PlayerUnknown's Battle Royale. The mod followed the same basic last-man standing principle of the Battle Royale DayZ mod, while also introducing some new features like the airplane that dropped players across a wider terrain[5] and an online leaderboard.

H1Z1: BATTLE ROYALE

After DayZ: Battle Royale and PlayerUnknown's Battle Royale achieved success within the

H1Z1: King of the Kill.[7]

PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds

In 2016,

PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds, which Greene described as "that sort of final realization of my vision".[8]
[9]

PUBG Special Projects / PlayerUnknown Productions

In March 2019, Greene left development at PUBG and moved to Amsterdam to form PUBG Special Projects.[10] In December 2019, Greene announced a new game called Prologue under a new studio PlayerUnknown Productions, described as "an exploration of new technologies and gameplay."[11]

Greene announced in August 2021 that he was leaving Krafton while maintaining his PlayerUnknown Productions in Amsterdam. He stated that the studio would not work on the battle royale genre but something more experimental.[12] The new studio continued work on the Prologue game.[13]

References

  1. ^ "The Creator of 'PUBG' on Where Battle Royale Started and Where It's Going". Vice. Retrieved 13 July 2021.
  2. ^ Brown, Fraser (13 March 2019). "Brendan "PlayerUnknown" Greene is leaving PUBG". PC Gamer. Retrieved 13 July 2021.
  3. ^ Huddleston, Tom Jr. (26 April 2019). "From playing video games while broke on welfare to creating billion-dollar game 'PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds'". CNBC. Retrieved 13 July 2021.
  4. ^ "How It's Made – How Brendan Greene and PUBG revolutionized gaming". ESPN.com. 25 June 2020. Retrieved 13 July 2021.
  5. ^ "The Creator of 'PUBG' on Where Battle Royale Started and Where It's Going". www.vice.com. Retrieved 13 July 2021.
  6. ^ Marks, Tom (21 January 2015). "Battle Royale modder Brendan Greene on his official H1Z1 mode". PC Gamer. Retrieved 13 July 2021.
  7. ^ Hall, Charlie (28 February 2018). "H1Z1 is leaving Steam Early Access right now, adding a new cars-only mode". Polygon. Retrieved 13 July 2021.
  8. ^ "The Creator of 'PUBG' on Where Battle Royale Started and Where It's Going". www.vice.com. Retrieved 13 July 2021.
  9. ^ "The Creator of 'PUBG' on Where Battle Royale Started and Where It's Going". www.pubgmodsworld.com. Retrieved 13 July 2021.
  10. ^ Arif, Shabana (13 March 2021). "PUBG Creator Now Working on New Projects". IGN. Retrieved 31 August 2021.
  11. ^ O'Conner, James (16 December 2019). "Brendan "PlayerUnknown" Greene's Next Game, Prologue, Is Not A Shooter". GameSpot. Retrieved 31 August 2021.
  12. Venture Beat
    . Retrieved 31 August 2021.
  13. Venture Beat
    . Retrieved 3 September 2021.

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