Epic Video games has mentioned the way forward for Fall Guys, following in the present day’s announcement that its sport belongings, animations and characters are coming to Fortnite’s UEFN inventive mode.
Gamers will be capable of make and play their very own customized Fall Guys ranges in Fortnite from Might, Epic Video games introduced in the present day throughout its State of Unreal presentation. Lego and Rocket Racing sport belongings arrive in UEFN in the present day, in the meantime.
Chatting with Eurogamer, Epic Video games govt vp Saxs Persson stated the addition of Fall Guys characters and gameplay to Fortnite will profit gamers by the character of it being accessible from inside Fortnite, the place thousands and thousands play already. That stated, the unique Fall Guys sport will even nonetheless proceed on.
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“If we began Fall Guys growth over in the present day, we might do it inside Fortnite,” Persson stated, when requested if Fall Guys growth would ever solely exist inside Fortnite. “However we’re the place we’re, we do not have something to announce proper now.
“You study various things once you’re separate, however we really consider the magic of Fortnite is having enjoyable in a sport with your folks so the extra gamers there are, the extra content material there may be, the extra enjoyable you may have. So by that easy measure, it advantages us to have every thing in a single place.”
Persson pointed to the launch of Lego Fortnite, Psyonix’s Rocket Racing and Harmonix’s Fortnite Competition in December final yr for instance of this – the place “the pattern charge is extraordinarily excessive as a result of it is really easy to leap into”.
An Epic Video games spokesperson subsequently confirmed that the corporate was persevering with to assist Fall Guys as a standalone title.
Fall Guys first launched to very large success in 2020 for PC and PlayStation 4, developed by British studio Mediatonic. Epic Video games purchased Mediatonic the next yr. In 2022, variations of Fall Guys for Nintendo Swap, PS5, Xbox One and Xbox Sequence X/S arrived, as the sport went free-to-play and clocked up 50 million gamers in two weeks.
Final autumn’s layoffs by Epic Video games reportedly hit Mediatonic onerous, although work on Fall Guys remained an organization precedence, Epic advised Eurogamer on the time.
