Epic Games arrived at the 2023 Game Developers Conference with a clear goal, using its keynote presentation to lift the lid on some of the company’s biggest projects, with an ambitious overhaul to Fortnite’s Creative mode front and centre. Creative 2.0 places the unrestrained power of Unreal Engine in anyone’s hands, Epic CEO Tim Sweeney says, and puts the metaverse in reach for Fortnite and the broader videogame industry.
After spending some time with Unreal Editor For Fortnite, at least part of that claim feels true. The PC-based software is an expansive tool, with potential that’s unlikely to be fully realised for months or even years to come – though that’s thanks in part to a limited set of launch tutorials that narrows its target audience. The second claim is more complex and, ironically, seems to point to a future without Fortnite at its centre, and a metaverse with Epic-branded walls surrounding it.
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