{"id":31260,"date":"2012-01-23T14:07:44","date_gmt":"2012-01-23T12:07:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=31260"},"modified":"2012-01-24T12:04:56","modified_gmt":"2012-01-24T10:04:56","slug":"epics-fortnite-for-an-entirely-different-more-casual-market","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/business\/31260-epics-fortnite-for-an-entirely-different-more-casual-market","title":{"rendered":"Epic’s Fortnite for an “entirely different”, “more casual” market"},"content":{"rendered":"

What’s much less hardcore than Gears of War? That would be Epic Games<\/a>‘ next<\/em> project, the scavengin’, buildin’, zombie holocaustin’ Fortnite.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe have announced a new game Fortnite for an entirely different audience, more casual,\u201d Epic overlord Tim Sweeney told VentureBeat. \u201cIt appeals to a wider audience than a hardcore game like Gears of War. We are branching out, but we tie it all together with AAA production values.\u201d<\/p>\n

The co-op, Minecrafty survival game was officially debuted at the Spike TV VGA<\/a>s in December 2011, although not much else is known about it for the moment.<\/p>\n

\u201cMike Capps [Epic president] decided at one point that we were finishing Gears of War 3 and we had a whole lot of people available. We weren\u2019t ready to ramp up our next AAA project yet,\u201d he explained.<\/p>\n

\u201cSo we held an internal ‘game jam’ inside Epic. Everybody in the company who was available divided up into teams and spent a week creating prototypes. We got a bunch of different prototypes and proposals out of it, with an incredible amount of variety. Fortnite arose through that process. And it\u2019s a really cool game to work on.\u201d<\/p>\n

Fortnite doesn’t have a launch date or even launch platforms yet, but it’s definitely a no dudebro<\/em> zone.<\/p>\n