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Survival games are a subgenre of action video games that generally start the player with minimal resources in a hostile, open-world environment, and require them to collect resources, craft tools, weapons, and shelter, and survive as long as possible. Many survival games are based on randomly or procedurally-generated persistent environments, with more recent entries often playable online and multiple players on a single persistent world. Survival games are generally open-ended, with no set goals. ==History== The first game considered to be an example of the survival game genre is ''UnReal World'', created by Sami Maaranen in 1992 and still in active development at the present. The game was based on a roguelike approach, using ASCII graphics that computers were capable of at the time, and placed the player in the harsh conditions of Finland during the Iron Age. Unlike traditional roguelikes where there was a goal to reach, ''UnReal World''s only goal was to survive as long as possible against wild creatures and the dangers that the snowy weather created. ''Wurm Online'' is also considered an early predecessor of the survival game. As a massively multiplayer online role-playing game, the game set players as characters in a medieval setting, allowing them to terraform the land, create buildings, and effectively develop their own kingdoms. Initial development began in 2003 by Rolf Jansson and Markus Persson, and though Persson left around 2007, the game continues to be operated and expanded in the present.〔 Persson became instrumental in developing ''Minecraft'', the title that is considered to have given popularity to the survival game genre.〔 Within initial public releases in 2009, ''Minecraft'' focuses on resource-gathering and crafting in a procedurally-generated world, and requiring the player to defend themselves during night cycles while managing to scavenge for resources otherwise.〔 Another key title in the survival genre was ''DayZ''. It was originally released as a mod in 2012 for ''ARMA 2'', but due to its popularity, was later expanded to a standalone game. The game sets the players in the aftermath of a zombie apocalypse, requiring the characters to avoid hordes of zombies while scavenging through the remains of human civilization for resources.〔 As a result of the financial success of ''Minecraft'' and ''DayZ'', the survival genre began to see numerous titles released from 2012 onward. Some considered that the market has become saturated with many titles based on the same post-apocalyptic setting, clones of more popular titles, and titles released as a quick attempt to make money using Early Access models. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Survival game」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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