RPS: So was the stuff for DayZ your first time trying to mod? I want to take a kilometer-wide shot and watch the bullet drop. All the games I play are military simulations, they're all real- I want the game to look like this, I want good weapon physics, I want all this kind of stuff. But I played the shit out of those games, right? Black Hawk Down I played for years, because I loved its realism, its custom made maps, its user modes, and I love that. Like I say, I didn't play- I could list the games I'd played and loved on one hand. PU: Graphic design, web design, that was my career for many years, from my 20s all the way through my 30s, I was a graphic designer and photographer. RPS: What kind of design were you doing in Brazil? I used that opportunity to move to Arma 3, and then in Arma 3 I tuned it a bit more, removed the zombies and stuff, and made it just more the Battle Royale mod that people know today. Then when the DayZ standalone came out, our popularity on Arma 2 died off as everyone went to DayZ standalone. I created a DayZ mod based on the DayZ Overwatch mod because they had the biggest selection of guns, and I made the DayZ Battle Royale mod for that. I saw the survival games and DayZ, I thought it was a cool concept, but I wanted to change it and make it so everyone could play it. I just loved the idea of no storyline, you do whatever the fuck you want.īut then I had my DayZ mod server, and I started scripting stuff in and changing it a little bit, and playing around and then I decided I'd see if I could create a mod. I wasn't really a gamer I'd play games every now and again but when I was in Brazil, I wasn't really playing very many videogames at all. Towards the end I discovered DayZ, the mod, and that kind of got me back into gaming.

PlayerUnknown: I was a photographer and designer in Brazil, where I lived from about ten years ago. RPS: How did you get into the games industry? That's not bad given that its creator, Brendan 'PlayerUnknown' Greene, has never made a game before, only got involved in modding a few years ago, and doesn't really consider himself a gamer.Īt this year's EGX Rezzed in April, I spoke to Greene about his rapid journey through the industry, his plans for new modes in Battlegrounds, how he feels about competition with H1Z1, and his hope of giving back to the community that helped him by turning the game into a modding platform.

Since release in March, battle-royale-'em-up PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds has sold 4 million copies, and at the time of writing it's the third most played game on Steam in terms of concurrent users.

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