"The change represents an important step in Epic's long-running vision of turning Fortnite into an open metaverse that's a big 3D social space with a huge number of experiences to participate in with your friends. Epic has been marching down this path for years with Fortnite itself by putting an increased focus on creator-made experiences and making browsing through those experiences in the Fortnite lobby feel like scrolling YouTube. You can even check out experiences on the web - and buy new Fortnite outfits in your browser, too."
"Right now, Fortnite is a closed ecosystem, meaning that creators can only make games for the platform using Epic's tools, can't (yet) easily drop those games into Unreal Engine to bring them to other platforms, or bring experiences built on other engines into Fortnite. But even in 2023, Tim Sweeney was telling The Verge how much he believed in the future of interoperable game engines being key to his vision."
Epic Games is partnering with Unity to allow games built on Unity's engine to run inside Fortnite, placing Unity titles alongside experiences made with Epic's Unreal Editor and Epic's own releases. The integration aims to increase the number and variety of playable experiences in Fortnite as part of a broader push to make Fortnite a 3D social space and open metaverse. Epic positions interoperability as a way to help developers reach larger audiences and succeed. Fortnite currently operates as a closed ecosystem where creators must use Epic's tools and cannot easily port experiences between engines or platforms.
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