
The Mod That Ate the Genre: How Survival Games Were Built by Amateurs
Some of the biggest games on the planet did not start as products. They started as mods, hacked together by hobbyists on top of somebody else's engine. The survival and battle-royale booms in particular were invented by amateurs, and the studios only showed up once the idea was already proven. Here is how the pipeline works and why it still matters.


