Episodic Fortnite worlds

Making Of / 10 February 2024


I've had this idea after seeing the success of content creators in Fortnite and Roblox, not worrying about building your own game to release on steam or console, having a huge production, millions in investments but to leverage an existing platform to deliver an experience of your own creation.

I don't have a robust dev team or character artist and for now, its just me.  So, like how I approach task at my current job, how to do as much as I can with what's available to me and how to augment what I'm missing.

I've started to get into UEFN, I've been a fan of Fortnites art style so I gave myself a challenge to study their style and see how I can replicate it with my own artwork.  Then I had the idea, not just making some arena shooter, think about how to build something more episodic, bite size development trying to tell a story with interaction and gameplay sprinkled in there.  The hope is players can be entertained for a few minutes and continue to want more. There shouldn't be a large investment of time to get the story or understand the mechanics.

So there is where I present "The Unraveling".   A story of an AI that has been awakened, learning and trying to correct the world. Skynet you say, nah, there aren't terminators, but we will have lots of bots.  Right now I'm working on blending my content with existing Fortnite content, studying the style and after a few more assets I'll get it right.



Ok, gotta get back to work, stay tuned for more.