Comment on I'm a dev who has been working on my game for 2 years and my game title got stolen on Steam and they plan to release before I do. What should I do?

• Rai@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  I’m curious how they’d respond to this… as far as I know, there were a handful of mods for other games that kinda did the concept but no actual games, certainly not the way any games do BR after PUBG’s release. H1Z1? But not really, as PUBG’s creator did a lot of that…

  the closest things would probably be last-man-standing shooters but those aren’t BR games.

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  • ChicoSuave@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    H1Z1 is probably the technical first but I seem to recall that BR mode didn’t take off because the game had too much jank to be fun.

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• missingno@fedia.io ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  I believe the Minecraft Hunger Games mod was where it all started.

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• Fizz@lemmy.nz ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Minecraft hunger games, h1z1, the culling. Just going through a few shooters and search hunger games or battle royal brings up game modes from way before pubg for quite a few games, arma, half life, runescape. Hell theres even a movie with the same concept.

  Then you look at pubg and you see how many battle royal games released in the same few months and you think they copied pubg? Thats impossible. You cannot copy a game in a few months. Its more likely they were all looking at h1z1 which was very popular and topping twitch with all the major streamers playing it. Then most of the following games put some kind of spin on the formula and made it something completely different.

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  • RabbitBBQ@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Minecraft hunger games, h1z1, the culling.

    These were all created after the original PUBG, which was an Arma mod created similar to DayZ. This existed as what we know of battle royale before any other clone, and it was also created by PlayerUnknown.

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    • Fizz@lemmy.nz ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Not true Minecraft was earlier by a few years and blew up a few years before the arma mod. But reading more of the lore it does seem like Brendan greene was involved in battle realistic style royals since very early days and was heavily involved I’m all the major genre hits. But that still doesnt make fortnite a copy.

      Reading through the lore player Brendan Greene worked on h1z1 but ultimately the company that decided to make pubg say that they saw how popular h1z1 was and decided to reach out to Brendan Greene to work on the game that became pubg.

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