You can now make and share your own Lego Fortnite islands and games
Epic Games is launching a set of tools for Unreal Editor for Fortnite that’ll let players create their own Lego Fortnite islands. Epic and Lego announced the tools during the Game Developers Conference in San Francisco on Wednesday.
A bunch of Lego assets are now available within the Unreal Editor for Fortnite, alongside four templates to play with. Additionally, Lego has also created three of its own Lego Fortnite islands: Lego Prop Hunt, a Lego take on the hide and seek-esque prop hunt set in a shopping mall; Lego Battle Arena, a Ninja-themed competition; and Lego Cat Island Adventure, an island where you’re tasked with taking care of a sweet little cat. Everything built in Lego Fortnite must have an ESRB rating of E10+ or PEGI 7 — basically, they’ve got to comply with Lego Fortnite’s family friendly rules.
These are in addition to Lego Raft Survival and Lego Obby Fun from February.
“Today’s announcement is a hugely important step in us democratizing creativity and putting the power of the LEGO brand into creators’ hands like never before,” Lego Game head of play and creator growth Kari Vinther Nielsen said in a statement. “We want kids and families to be able to enjoy a whole host of fun and engaging play experiences within Fortnite, and the potential this news offers for creators is incredibly exciting — we can’t wait to see what everyone builds and how much the community enjoys the creations.”
Lego Fortnite went live in late 2023 and has continued to grow since then, part of of Lego’s $1 billion investment into Fortnite maker Epic Games.
Though Fortnite has millions less players than Roblox — 70 million to 250 million players, respectively — Epic is aiming to be the next leader in user-generated content. Giving players the ability to create their own games and experiences means Fortnite, like Roblox, is more than just a game. It’s a platform. To incentivize players to create on Fortnite, Epic gives 40% of its net revenues back to creators in what it calls
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