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Plenty of games have had elimination modes for a long time. This is really just an evolution of that adding the mechanic of the map edges closing in.
by andyfleming 8y ago
Plenty of games have had elimination modes for a long time. This is really just an evolution of that adding the mechanic of the map edges closing in.
- ehsankia 8y agoElimination mode is more generic. The battle royale subgenre started with the Minecraft hunger game mode, and grew more popular by H1Z1: King of the Hill, and then by PUBG.
- cthalupa 8y ago>The battle royale subgenre started with the Minecraft hunger game mode, and grew more popular by H1Z1: King of the Hill, and then by PUBG. Minecraft had nothing to do with it. PU was inspired by the Battle Royale novel/movie and The Running Man. He forked the Day Z ARMA2 mod and made DayZ: Battle Royale, and that predates H1Z1 KotH by 3 years.