Epic’s Fall Guys adds a creative mode so players can design their own levels
techcrunch.comEpic Games is expanding Fall Guys — its bubbly battle royale populated by little jellybean dudes — to make room for player-crafted creativity.
With its fourth season, live today, Fall Guys adds a new creative mode that invites players to sculpt their own levels with beginner-friendly game design tools. In the new mode, anyone can create new obstacle course gauntlets filled with big boxing gloves, bouncy floors and giant, candy-colored hammers, all designed to squash the player character’s bean-like avatars.
For Epic, Fall Guys slots in next to Fortnite, offering a different flavor of chaotic battle royale play that’s increasingly modeled on the company’s core multiplayer hit. Unlike Fortnite, a wacky but mechanically more traditional shooter, Fall Guys offers players a fight to the death across a series of colorful, cartoon courses strewn with hazards.
The upshot of Epic shaping its other titles into differently-flavored Fortnites is that the company knows it’s got a winning formula. The free-to-play seasonal battle pass model, in-game cosmetic purchases and an expansive set of creative tools for player-crafted levels are all ingredients in a recipe that Epic continues to hone.
Epic is betting big on player-crafted original content, sometimes known as “UGC” (user-generated content). Fortnite players spend a ton of time in that game’s realm of player-created game modes and levels. In March, Epic announced that it would bring its Unreal Editor to Fortnite, promising improvements to graphics and gameplay that surpass anything else that’s out there for amateur game developers right now.
<p lang=«en» dir=«ltr» xml:lang=«en»>Get ready to create.Unreal Editor for Fortnite (UEFN) available now in Public Beta on PC. Download:
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