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Trying to be the next big thing in an emerging genre is like trying to catch lightning in a bottle. It requires as much serendipity as it does alchemy. Fortnite managed to pull it off, but a closer look at the game’s history reveals just how lucky that success really was.

Before the battle royale craze, publishers hungry to capitalize on the success of League of Legends optioned a slew of multiplayer online battle arena games hoping to ride the MOBA wave. The vast majority of them were canceled within a year (some never even made it past the beta phase). If you think that’s bad, the massively multiplayer online era was worse. 250 MMO games died trying to chase the shadow of World of Warcraft, and none of them ever came close to challenging its 15 year reign.

The battle royale genre of games was created out of a series of flukes, but hindsight is 20/20. We don’t have any reliable way of knowing what the next big battle royale game will be. What we can do is look back and analyze the titles that brought us to this point

DayZ brought huge player counts, chaos, survival, and tension

DayZ, the grandfather of the battle royale genre, started out as a fan-made modification of the military simulation game ARMA 2. It was the brainchild of Dean Hall, a designer who took his inspiration from survival training in the New Zealand Army.

Hall wanted to make a zombie survival game that matched the tension of war. Instead, he ended up with a fascinating social experiment that inspired diaries and even photojournalists.

In DayZ, more than hundred players spawn together on a zombie-infested island to scavenge for supplies and do your best to survive. Meeting another player was always a tense moment, and alliances were fragile because the cost of surviving was so high. People regularly murdered each other over cans of beans.

DayZ became a wildly lucrative success, but it was never that popular. Even at its peak, it had just over a million players. It was a game everyone loved to talk about, but not many actually played. It was just too brutal, unforgiving, and directionless.

The lack of any real objective is what made DayZ too daunting for most players. Developers realized that the most popular aspect of DayZ was the chaos. People liked being hurled onto an island with dozens of other players to see who’d come out on top, but they needed some structure so they wouldn’t end up running around aimlessly for hours just looking for someone to fight.

They didn’t want survival. They wanted battle royale.

PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds established battle royale as we know it

Brendan Greene, better known by his online moniker PlayerUnknown, capitalized on that desire.

He started off as a fan of DayZ before learning to code his own games. Like many others, the thing about DayZ that resonated with him most was the particular kind of combat it offered. In a world filled with shooters that neatly organize opponents into teams with specific conditions, the randomness of DayZ was refreshing. It was every player for themselves. You could emerge as the winner of an intense 10-player firefight only to be gunned down by random stranger while bandaging yourself up afterward.

Inspired by the Japanese film Battle Royale, Greene wanted to recreate that concept in a video game. His new game began as a simple mod, just like DayZ. It wasn’t until he added two critical new features that the battle royale genre was really born.

First is the dropper. Rather than spawning at a random point on the map, all players in PUBG start in plane that flies over the island. Each player can disembark when they want and land wherever they want, introducing some choice and strategy while also retaining randomness. You can choose where you want to go but you don’t know what’ll happen once you land.

To solve the issue of slow, aimless games, PUBG also implemented a shrinker. By gradually shrinking the habitable area of the island with a lethal environmental wall, players were forced to keep moving and engage in combat. This also ensured that the average PUBG match only lasted about 30 minutes. In DayZ, it was possible to go that long without meeting a single person.

Those two decisions put PUBG on the map, helping it sell over 50 million copies. Plenty of other battle royale games used the same mechanics, but for a while PUBG defined the genre.

Then another game came along to do what PUBG couldn’t: appeal to everyone.

Fortnite made battle royale a genre for everyone

Fortnite Battle Royale is one of the great Cinderella stories in gaming. It made almost half a billion dollars in just two months (the same amount of time it took to develop the entire game). But many people don’t realize that Fortnite Battle Royale began as a spin-off of a moderately successful co-op zombie game, but the battle royale mode quickly overshadowed the original concept. When people talk about Fortnite, they’re talking about Fortnite Battle Royale.

No one should be more surprised by the success of Fortnite than its developers, who added a battle royale mode just because they thought PUBG was cool. On paper, it shouldn’t have succeeded. By the time it was in development, the battle royale market was already saturated with contenders hungry for some of that PUBG money. Fortnite Battle Royale’s initial announcement was met with sneering skepticism.

But it worked, and a lot of it was by dumb luck. Fortnite was already a cartoony game, which drew in many young children whose parents wouldn’t allow the brutal, realistic graphics of PUBG. Epic Games also made the smart decision to make its battle royale mode totally free, and made it widely available on ever platform imaginable(evenphones).

The game’s building mechanic, also a leftover from the original Fortnite, unintentionally added a new depth to the genre. To win in Fortnite, you can’t just be a good shooter. You also need to be a good builder. That extra layer of skill made it attractive to popular streamers who’ve built entire careers out of the game. Tyler “Ninja” Blevins claims to earn $500,000 a month streaming the game.

Epic Games made Fortnite Battle Royale to tap into PUBG, but it ended up doing far greater by discovering the same magic sauce used by hugely popular titles like World of Warcraft and Minecraft by making their respective genres interesting to everyone, not just “gamers”. Fortnite had the right stuff, was released at the right time, and was played by the right streamers. Out of all the developers chasing after PUBG, it was Epic Games that caught the lightning.

So does that mean Fortnite will forever be at the pinnacle of the battle royale mountain? Probably not.

New challengers have appeared

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New battle royale games are coming, and all of them know that in order to win players over from PUBG and Fortnite, they’ll have to offer something different. Fear the Wolves features a dynamic weather system. Not to be outshined by Battlefield V’s new battle royale mode, Call of Duty: Black Ops 4 is shipping with its own branded version.

But there’s one I have high hopes for: Realm Royale. Hi-Rez Studios understands that in order to be successful in today’s market, its battle royale game must not only be fun to play, but also enjoyable for spectators.

Realm Royale features light role playing elements like a class system and crafting, but doesn’t get lost in the weeds complex weapons or a leveling-up system. When players are downed, instead of being keeled over, they turn into chickens. It’s an obvious reference to PUBG’s victory slogan (“Winner Winner Chicken Dinner”) but it’s also great for streamers. If you can survive as a chicken for 30 seconds, you’re transformed back into an able-bodied human. Lucky for you, all the windows in the game are perfectly sized for a chicken to jump through, but a blood-crazed human would have to run around and take the door.

The game launched on June 5 and it’s already leapt to the top five most viewed games on Twitch. Hi-Rez is off to a great start, but did it catch its own lightning? Time will tell.

What we’ve seen from the young battle royale genre is impressive, but it’s barely scratching the surface. Battle royale didn’t start with Fortnite and it won’t end there, either.

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I do believe there will be a new king of the hill, and when it comes, it’ll be a title no one could have guessed, just like all the great battle royale games that came before.

This article appeared in Issue 33 of 'Asian Cult Cinema'

Perhaps one of the most controversial films to come out of Japan in recent years, 'Battle Royale' (based on the best-selling Koshun Takami novel) is 'Lord of the Flies' meets 'Survivor' with guns: in a dystopian Japan of the near future, the government places one class of grade nine students on a remote island, gives them each a weapon, and lets them loose in a fight to the death. Despite being branded the rarely-used R15 rating (restricting the film to those aged 15 and over) when it opened at the tail end of 2000, 'Battle Royale' quickly became both a critical and box office success, both domestically and in other Asian film markets. And though the film will probably be remembered more for its graphic exploitation of teen violence, 'Battle Royale' also makes some rather pointed remarks about Japanese society and history.

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As explained in the film's opening placards, the story is set in the near future, when Japan is close to collapse, burdened with a faltering economy and double-digit unemployment. The social fabric of the country has become unraveled, with high school students boycotting classes and committing despicable acts of violence against adults. As a result of this anarchy, the government passes the Millennial Reform School Act (known as the BR Act in short). Under the provisions of the BR Act, a yearly Battle Royale is held in which a randomly chosen class of junior high school students are issued weapons and forced to play a twisted Darwinian game of survival in which there can be only one winner. At the start of 'Battle Royale', Class B of Zentsuji Middle School has been chosen to play this year's game.

Unfortunately, none of the happy-go-lucky students in Class B are aware of their fate. While on what they think is just another field trip, the entire class is rendered unconscious and brought to the 100 square mile arena where they will do battle over the next three days. Included in this unlucky group are Shuya (Tatsuya Fujiwara) and the girl he has a crush on, Noriko (Aki Maeda), who become the emotional center of the story. Also joining the class of 40 students are two 'transfer students', Kawada (Taro Yamamoto) and Kiriyama (Masanobu Ando of 'Space Travelers'), who are conspicuously older than the rest of the group and whose presence is a mystery. But the students of Class B are given little time to ponder such issues, as they soon find themselves being bullied by their former teacher, Kitano (Japanese cinematic icon Takeshi Kitano, writer/director of films such as 'Hana-bi' and 'Sonatine'), who with frenzied enthusiasm and an explosive temper, acts as the game's referee.

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The students are then shown a video, in which a perversely chipper hostess outlines the rules of the games and encourages the students to do their best in gunning each other down. Each student is issued a backpack, containing some food, bottled water, a compass, a map of the island, and a weapon. While some students are issued guns and knives, others are not so fortunate-- Shuya is given a stainless steel pot lid, while Noriko ends up with a pair of binoculars. Another standard issue for every player is an permanently-affixed explosive-laced necklace which can be detonated in one of three ways: remote detonation for those who 'get out of line', detonation by wandering into one of the island's many rotating 'danger zones', and detonation of all necklaces if more than one player remains after 72 hours.

Armed to the teeth and scared out of their wits, the players begin the Battle Royale, approaching the game in different ways. Some approach the game with enthusiasm, determined to come out on top at any cost, while others gleefully see the game as a means to settle old scores, such as with the snobbish clique that had ridiculed them in the past. Others are unwilling to kill their friends and loved ones, and end up committing suicide instead. Some students form alliances to sue for peace and an end to the game, while others join forces to try and stop the bloodshed by hacking into the systems that monitor the game. Unfortunately, their altruistic efforts, aimed at the greater good of all players, end up being cut down by the likes of Kiriyama, who seems to take pleasure in killing everyone in sight. Finally, there are those like Shuya and Noriko, who try to stay out of the line of fire, and play defensively only when they have to. As the game progresses and the body count rises, subtitles are used to give a running tally of the latest victims and the number of remaining players.

With 'Battle Royale', director Kinji Fukasaku (better known to Western audiences as the co-director of the Japanese sequences in 'Tora! Tora! Tora!') returns to the blood-and-guts filmmaking that made him famous during the Sixties and Seventies. Fukasaku pulls no punches as he unleashes the unblinking camera on the carnage brought about by the game, and at times, the on-screen violence can be hard to stomach. Given the increasing visibility of school violence in the once-sedate Japan and public opinion polls that name youth crime and violence as the most pressing social issues, 'Battle Royale' created a stir in the Japanese parliament prior to its release. After a special screening by members of parliament and other government officials, 'Battle Royale' was labeled 'crude and tasteless' and quickly became a battle cry for more government action on media violence, which up until then, had never been an issue.

Part of the problem with 'Battle Royale' is the greater emphasis on exploitation than examination. The original book went into detail on the society of this alternate universe Japan (which emerged victorious from the Second World War), the logic behind the Battle Royale, as well as the motivations of the characters. Unfortunately, these elements, which would have been far more interesting than merely watching the students kill each other, are ignored or substantially reduced, robbing the on-screen action of both context and logic. This is most evident with Kitano, whose ruthless refereeing and actions in the last reel make little sense.

However, despite the narrative shortcomings of the script, the subtext of the story is loud and clear. The most obvious interpretation of 'Battle Royale' is as a thinly veiled allegory on the ultra-competitive Japanese higher education system. For the uninitiated, schooling in Japan is broken into nine compulsory grades, which are publicly funded, and the upper-secondary and post-secondary levels, in which the private sector plays a significant role. In the nine compulsory grades, the education system does not stratify students into achievement levels, and moving from one grade to the next is generally assured as long as the student shows up for classes. However, to advance into the higher grades and post-secondary education, students must compete for placement through nationwide examinations, particularly for the more prestigious schools. By gaining entrance into a distinguished high school, a student will be guaranteed placement in one of the better universities. As a result, competition is fierce, with students hiring tutors, attending jukus ('cram schools') up to seven days a week, and even cheating to get ahead. Thus, it is no coincidence that the students picked to play Battle Royale are in the ninth grade.

Another interpretation, which is closer to the intent of both Takano and Fukasaku, is the 'zero sum' mindset that dominated Japanese militarism in the early part of the Twentieth century. During the period of Japanese political expansion prior to both World Wars, diplomacy was viewed by the Japanese government as a 'zero sum' game, in which one country could only achieve its objectives at the expense of another. This mindset was particularly evident in Japan's relations with its Asian neighbors, Russia, and, of course, the United States. Likewise, the players in Battle Royale are faced with a 'zero sum' situation, where there can be only one winner. However, what is interesting is that the characters actually come up with creative alternatives to the 'zero sum' outcome, allowing multiple survivors. Unfortunately, these options require implicit trust among the players, a hard commodity to come by in their environment. One of the more interesting scenes in 'Battle Royale' illustrates how trust can quickly become undermined, as a seemingly stable alliance among a group of female students degenerates into a bloodbath after suspicions are raised.

Given the current concern over teen violence in North America, there is little chance that 'Battle Royale' will be released theatrically stateside. Vitamaster treadmill manual. However, 'Battle Royale' has recently become available as a Hong Kong import VCD, which can be purchased over the Internet or at Chinese stores. Though this controversial film erroneously eschews the novel's more meaningful aspects in favor of exploitational thrills, 'Battle Royale' still remains a dark, thought-provoking, and memorable exploration of humanity caught in a 'zero sum' game of life.

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