Epic Games took the prize for the big surprise of Saturday night's Video Game Awards show with the trailer reveal for Fortnite, a game in which players apparently fortify a base of some kind during the day and hole up there at night when evil things come out to play. It sounds an awful lot like Minecraft at the most basic level, so it makes sense to learn that Mojang's blocky PC actually had an influence on Epic's next effort.
The revelation came straight from the game's director, Lee Perry, who revealed on Twitter that he thanks Minecraft creator Markus 'Notch' Persson "every day." Perry also shared a bit more about the game itself, though he stopped short of answering any questions concerning release dates or platforms, both of which remain a mystery for now.
"I see lots of questions asking if Fortnite is freeform construction. It is. It's not scripted or just boarding up existing structures," he wrote on Twitter. "It stands to reason if you can build a world, anything can be destroyed."
Perry says that the game's construction focus is on buildings. So while the act of construction may be "freeform," Fortnite isn't exactly aping Minecraft's "build anything, anywhere" approach.
Source: Twitter
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dz99ls
Its pretty obvious this was a rip off, anyone who doesnt see it is nuts
rifleshoot
this game looks sick!
goliath182
Epic is dead to me
apaquette2010
this better be an xbox exclusive...
JustTheBeginning
I am most certainly not an Epic Games fanboy but I am sick of all the people calling this a minecraft clone and saying the game will fail because of so. Yeah minecraft is great, and INTRODUCED a new genre to a lot of people, but minecraft certainly did not INVENT the genre. To just name one, Littlebigplanet came out before minecraft and even though its 2.5d, it has the same build whatever you want mentality.
And even if it did invent it (which it did not), does that mean nobody can EVER use that concept and improve on it?! How illogical is that, if we used that rule we would be playing Doom #245 right about now... I mean for pete sake, Minecraft is a 99% clone of legos, littlebigplanet and generic dungeon games!
JustTheBeginning
I am most certainly not an Epic Games fanboy but I am sick of all the people calling this a minecraft clone and saying the game will fail because of so. Yeah minecraft is great, and INTRODUCED a new genre to a lot of people, but minecraft certainly did not INVENT the genre. To just name one, Littlebigplanet came out before minecraft and even though its 2.5d, it has the same build whatever you want mentality.
And even if it did invent it (which it did not), does that mean nobody can EVER use that concept and improve on it?! How illogical is that, if we used that rule we would be playing Doom #245 right about now... I mean for pete sake, Minecraft is a 99% clone of legos, littlebigplanet and generic dungeon games!
PrometheanArsonist
This is a perfect example of indie games having an impact on the market.
MightyLemur
Just to pre-empt any comments about copying Minecraft; All games have been inspired by something, most often by other games.
Notch agreed that Minecraft itself was inspired by Infiniminer.
TunnelingHorror
It's always very refreshing when a developer admits to being influenced and gives thanks and credit to those who influenced them. This looks like it could be a fun game and I look forward to keeping up on its development.
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