Preface: Undiscovered World
Release Date: December 5, 2024 Early Access
Adventure, FPP, free-to-play, sandbox, experimental/artistic, exploration games, singleplayer
A free tech demo, developed by PlayerUnknown Productions and meant to show the capabilities of Melba technology. Preface: Undiscovered World offers a locally generated open world which is the size of the Earth. We can explore diverse areas and use our camera to take photos of locations we visit.
Preface: Undiscovered World is a tech demo developed by PlayerUnknown Productions, a studio founded by Brendan Greene, the creator of the popular game PUBG: Battlegrounds.
The production is distributed for free, and along with Prologue: Go Wayback! it constitutes one of the stages leading to the creation of a multiplayer sandbox known as Project Artemis.
Open world
Preface: Undiscovered World is a demonstration of the capabilities of a technology called Melba, generating an open world the size of the entire Earth (its surface is 510 million square kilometers). This process takes place locally and in real time, without relying on cloud computing.
Gameplay
In Preface: Undiscovered World we view the action from a first-person perspective (FPP). During the game we focus on exploration, visiting deserts, forests, highlands and plains. After finding an interesting place, we can set a landmark in it to gain quick access to it from any location.
In addition, we are provided with a camera that allows us to photograph the visited places. We can save and rate photos, and the scores we give them can be used by developers to assess the attractiveness of the game world. Based on that information, the authors can prepare new content.
Videos and Screens
[2:00] Preface: Undiscovered World - Game Overview
Preface: Undiscovered World Summary
Platforms:
PC / Windows
Developer: PlayerUnknown Productions
Publisher: PlayerUnknown Productions
Age restrictions: none
Preface: Undiscovered World System Requirements
PC / Windows
Minimum: Intel Core i5-10500 / AMD Ryzen 5 3600, 16 GB RAM, graphic card 6 GB GeForce RTX 2060 / 8 GB Radeon RX 6600, 10 GB HDD, Windows 10 64-bit
Recommended: Intel Core i7-10700F / AMD Ryzen 7 3700X, 16 GB RAM, graphic card 11 GB GeForce RTX 2080 Ti / 16 GB Radeon RX 6800 XT, 10 GB HDD, Windows 10 64-bit