Preface: Undiscovered World

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.