PlayerUnknown
Brendan Greene (born March 29, 1976), better known by PlayerUnknown, is an Irish video game developer. He is best known for his work on "". He left active development on the game to form PUBG Special Projects and PlayerUnknown Productions in March 2019. Career. In 2013, Greene was living in Brazil working as an event photographer and freelance website designer. 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 began to mod 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". Daybreak Games. After "DayZ: Battle Royale" achieved success within the "DayZ" and "Arma 2" Community, Greene was recruited by Sony Online Entertainment to develop a battle royale game mode for H1Z1, recreating the basic elements of "Day Z: Battle Royale" within the new game under the name "PlayerUnknown's Battle Royale". "H1Z1" released into early access in 2015 with a battle royale mode now known as "". Section::::"PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds . In 2016, " caught the attention of South Korean game company Krafton, which reached out to Greene about creating his own game based on his previous work. Greene moved to Korea to join Krafton as a creative director, working on the game that became PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds", which Greene described as "that sort of final realization of my vision". PUBG Special Projects / PlayerUnknown Productions. In March 2019, Greene left development on PUBG and moved to Amsterdam to form PUBG Special Projects. 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." Greene announced in August 2021 that he was leaving Krafton while maintaining his PlayerUnknown Productions in Amsterdam. He stated that the studio would not be working on the battle royale genre but something more experimental. The new studio continued work on the "Prologue" game.