Insightful thread about the pitch and early development process for Fall Guys. https://twitter.com/jeff_tanton/status/1296494780998922240 …
That's the first time I heard it but it seems to have been around for much longer:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_royal …
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It has, but I'm pretty certain the video game setup was directly inspired by the movie, which was an adaptation of the novel. (I tend to think it's too intrinsic to be a mode, but not specific enough to be a genre - somewhere in between.)
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Prior to the movie, at least, it was commonly understood to just mean "large free-for-all", at least where I grew up. So: no teams, individual score/win/whatever, more participants than usual for that particular kind of contest.
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