Fortnite Creative

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Fortnite Creative
Fortnite Creative Cover.png
Promotional artwork
Developer(s) Epic Games
Publisher(s) Epic Games
Composer(s)
Series Fortnite
Engine Unreal Engine 5 [lower-alpha 1]
Platform(s)
Release
December 6, 2018 [lower-alpha 2]
  • Xbox Series X/S
  • November 10, 2020
  • PlayStation 5
  • November 12, 2020
Genre(s) Sandbox
Mode(s) Single-player, multiplayer

Fortnite Creative is a sandbox game, developed and published by Epic Games, part of the video game Fortnite . It was released on December 6, 2018, for Android, iOS, macOS, Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, Windows, and Xbox One, and in November 2020 for PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X/S.

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Gameplay

In the Fortnite meta-game, players can create structures on a private island and share them with up to 100 [1] players (including the owner) for various multiplayer game modes with customizable rules. [2] [3]

Players can place, copy and paste, move and erase objects, including ground tiles, items, and game buildings. [4] [5] There are limits to the amount of structures on an island. [2] [4] Players place objects from a palette with items of their choosing. They can also choose to build from predetermined structures like buildings. [3] [4]

Fortnite Creative loads into a hub island from which other islands can be accessed, most prominently those deemed popular by Epic Games and in the community. [3] [5] Players have the option to play custom games where they can practice their skills, compete against friends, or play minigames. Each player can have up to four private islands that they can build on. [3] In the game, players can walk, jump and fly. [2] [3] Players edit the world using a mobile phone that their character holds in the hand. After a minigame is played, the island is reset to its previous state before the game started. [4]

A player building in Creative Fortnite Creative Screenshot.png
A player building in Creative

The islands could previously be nominated to appear in The Block, a 25 × 25 tile area in Fortnite Battle Royale , which replaced Risky Reels in the top right corner of the map in Chapter 1 Season 7. [2] [6] In Chapter 1 Season 8 The Block was moved to the northwest of the map, replacing the motel. [7] After 4 years, Fortnite announced The Block 2.0 during Fortnite Chapter 3 Season 2. This replaced Tilted Towers, which is in the center of the map. Players created their versions of "The Block 2.0" in Creative. [8]

Development

During the development of Creative mode, Epic Games prioritized completing quickly over creating a perfect mode upon release. [9] Because of this, there were several bugs upon release. Due to their focus on speed, Epic Games created the prefabs system, instead of the full selection of blocks seen in other creative mode games. [9] Epic Games was able to launch Fortnite Creative earlier than planned. [9] Epic has updated creative mode several times since it was launched, fixing bugs, adding new buildings, and new island types. A scoreboard was added during the 8.40 patch. [10]

While Epic has used Fortnite: Battle Royale to perform a number of promotional events, such as virtual concerts, Epic partnered with Time to create a special Fortnite Creative area dedicated to celebrating the 58th anniversary of Martin Luther King Jr.'s "I Have a Dream" speech on August 28, 2021. [11] In August 2023, Epic approved a virtual holocaust museum designed by Luc Bernard; its release was delayed following concerns of vandalism after comments from Holocaust denier Nick Fuentes. [12] [13] [14]

Unreal Editor for Fortnite

A revamped system of Fortnite Creative, known as Unreal Editor for Fortnite (UEFN), or colloquially as Creative 2.0, was initially found in a presentation at Christmas 2020. Data miners found hints of code mentioning the system in early 2022. [15] It "combines the creation tools from Fortnite Creative with the Unreal Editor", [16] such as custom props and models, animations, sounds, and terrain generation.

UEFN was originally planned to release by the end of 2022, [17] but it was delayed until January 2023. [18] On March 16, 2023, it was announced that UEFN would arrive on March 22, 2023, and be available from the Epic Games Store.

Release

The game mode was announced on December 5, 2018. A trailer was released and Epic Games partnered with nine YouTubers to create demonstration videos of the meta-game. [19] Fortnite Battle Royale season 7 battle pass owners were able to play the game starting December 6. [2] Players without a battle pass could join islands created by players with a battle pass. [20] The meta-game was released for all players on December 13, 2018. [2]

Reception

Fortnite Creative has been compared to the 2011 sandbox game Minecraft . Henry St Leger of TechRadar wrote that this Fortnite installment shies away from taking inspiration from the battle royale game PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds towards taking inspiration from Minecraft. He called the meta-game "basically a blueprint" and wrote that it could become a "serious rival" to Minecraft due to Fortnite's infrastructure and player base. [2]

The meta-game was expected to keep a healthy player base for Fortnite. Polygon 's Ben Kuchera wrote that the game is "a powerful new tool" and that "[sharing] your own maps and game modes, or just using the tools to create wild videos, is going to go a long way toward keeping Fortnite fresh for the foreseeable future." [19]

Players have recreated various structures in Fortnite Creative; these include the Star Wars starship Millennium Falcon and Castle Black from Game of Thrones. Others have used musical tiles (which can be found inside of the Creative Inventory) to perform songs popular as Internet memes. [21] Maps from other video games such as Counter-Strike and Call of Duty have also been recreated in the meta-game by players. [22] [23] Locations and plots from TV shows and movies such as survival drama television series Squid Game have been recreated in the Creative gamemode. [24]

Notes

  1. ↑ The game used Unreal Engine 4 before the release of Chapter 3 of Fortnite Battle Royale on December 5, 2021.
  2. ↑ Release date for Android, iOS, macOS, Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, Windows, and Xbox One

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