How Unreal Engine for Fortnite can make your game development dreams come true

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It's hard to believe it now, but Dylan "TheBoyDilly" Johnson – CEO and founder of the wildly successful Good Gamers – didn't ever plan to be a game developer.

Back in early 2020, Johnson was one of millions of health workers at the forefront of the fight against COVID. After an exhausting year caring for unwell patients day after day, Johnson turned to his wife and said he had to take a break from nursing.

He had no idea that he would never be going back.

For a few years now, Johnson had been tinkering with Fortnite Creative, essentially making his own fun when his teammates weren't online to play the genre-defining Battle Royale, recreating some of Fortnite's most iconic concerts. Within six days of kicking off his sabbatical, however, Johnson not only saw his Fortnite game, ‘Go Goated! Zone Wars’, go viral, but Epic also approached him directly to work on their Mohamed Hamaki and Tones And I concerts. Then, just days later, content creator Ali A approached him to join Team Atomic, a creative team that builds maps for Fortnite.

Fortnite – which had once just been the place where Johnson went to get a little R&R from the realities of nursing – was about to change his life.

"As with anything, when you get into something new, there's definitely a learning curve," Johnson says now, looking back at his journey. "But what I found was Epic had done a good job in making the 'development' part of it simple enough that you could start to learn and make games easier than any other development platform."

Perhaps, what might be most startling for some to discover about Johnson's story is that he has no prior experience or education in game development or any kind of artistic discipline. Everything he knows about gaming comes from being a