DarkAp89
06-26-2012, 11:38 AM
From the Epic Gamers blog (http://epicgames.com/community/2012/06/fortnite-panel-at-comic-con-fortnite-revealed).
On Thursday, July 12 at 10:45 to 11:45 AM PST at San Diego Comic-Con, be sure to check out the panel, Epic Games Presents: Fortnite Revealed.
Host Jessica Chobot (G4TV’s X-Play, Attack of the Show) will join Epic Games as it lifts the veil on its new game Fortnite. Teased late last year, attendees will be the very first people in the world to see Fortnite in action.
Get inside the minds of Epic Games‘ Design Director Cliff Bleszinski, Producer Tanya Jessen and Lead Artist Pete Ellis as they reveal inspirations, gameplay details, and why Fortnite is taking Epic Games in both a classic and all-new direction.
So? Who is excited to know more about the game?
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Infos from https://www.theverge.com/gaming/2012/7/12/3155138/epic-games-fortnite-will-be-the-developers-first-unreal-engine-4-game:
The creators of Gears of War and the Unreal Engine came to Comic-Con today to finally talk about their next game, Fortnite, a "a co-op sandbox survival game," according to producer Tanya Jessen. During the panel, the company also revealed the game would be PC exclusive and the first title from Epic to use its next-gen Unreal Engine 4 technology.
Jessen says the new property is about exploration, scavenging gear, building fortified structures and fighting waves of encroaching monsters hellbent on killing you and your friends.
"Building is really the core of the game," Jessen says. "Everything you find allows you to build and improve your structure." Epic says the game will have "a lot of loot" buried in the game.
Epic demonstrated playable prototypes of the game running on Unreal Engine 3, showing multiple ways players will be able to upgrade weapons — in this case a crossbow that can be outfitted with explosives and electric shocks — and offered glimpses of the various enemy types and building structures players will see in Fortnite.
Design director Cliff Bleszinski revealed during the panel that Fortnite would be the first game to take advantage of the company's Unreal Engine 4 tech.
"This is a PC designed game, shipping exclusively on the PC," Bleszinski said. Epic showed screen shots of Fortnite running on the next-gen Unreal Engine, showing off gorgeous lighting and modeling advances that accentuate the cartoonish style of the game.
Originally, Bleszinski said, Fortnite followed a more traditional post-apocalyptic, The Road-inspired aesthetic, but the team found the style "depressing." Designer Pete Ellis showed the evolution of one of the game's zombie-like enemy types, The Husk, and its transition from scary, wiry undead to its current more cartoonish style. The panel also revealed the name of the previously revealed enemy, the squat, teleporting Troll, which Bleszisnki described as "a manifestation of everything on the Internet that I hate."
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First screens from http://www.gameinformer.com/b/news/archive/2012/07/12/fortnite-is-the-first-unreal-engine-4-game.aspx:
http://media1.gameinformer.com/imagefeed/screenshots/Fortnite/Building.jpg
http://media1.gameinformer.com/imagefeed/screenshots/Fortnite/Faceoff.jpg
http://media1.gameinformer.com/imagefeed/screenshots/Fortnite/Scavengers.jpg
http://media1.gameinformer.com/imagefeed/screenshots/Fortnite/Durrrburger.jpg
http://media1.gameinformer.com/imagefeed/screenshots/Fortnite/NightCombat.jpg
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First podcast about the game with Tanya Jessen (http://forums.epicgames.com/threads/918344-Epic-Games-Podcast-Episode-5-with-Tanya-Jessen-Talks-about-Fortnite!)
On Thursday, July 12 at 10:45 to 11:45 AM PST at San Diego Comic-Con, be sure to check out the panel, Epic Games Presents: Fortnite Revealed.
Host Jessica Chobot (G4TV’s X-Play, Attack of the Show) will join Epic Games as it lifts the veil on its new game Fortnite. Teased late last year, attendees will be the very first people in the world to see Fortnite in action.
Get inside the minds of Epic Games‘ Design Director Cliff Bleszinski, Producer Tanya Jessen and Lead Artist Pete Ellis as they reveal inspirations, gameplay details, and why Fortnite is taking Epic Games in both a classic and all-new direction.
So? Who is excited to know more about the game?
--------------------------------------------------------------------
Infos from https://www.theverge.com/gaming/2012/7/12/3155138/epic-games-fortnite-will-be-the-developers-first-unreal-engine-4-game:
The creators of Gears of War and the Unreal Engine came to Comic-Con today to finally talk about their next game, Fortnite, a "a co-op sandbox survival game," according to producer Tanya Jessen. During the panel, the company also revealed the game would be PC exclusive and the first title from Epic to use its next-gen Unreal Engine 4 technology.
Jessen says the new property is about exploration, scavenging gear, building fortified structures and fighting waves of encroaching monsters hellbent on killing you and your friends.
"Building is really the core of the game," Jessen says. "Everything you find allows you to build and improve your structure." Epic says the game will have "a lot of loot" buried in the game.
Epic demonstrated playable prototypes of the game running on Unreal Engine 3, showing multiple ways players will be able to upgrade weapons — in this case a crossbow that can be outfitted with explosives and electric shocks — and offered glimpses of the various enemy types and building structures players will see in Fortnite.
Design director Cliff Bleszinski revealed during the panel that Fortnite would be the first game to take advantage of the company's Unreal Engine 4 tech.
"This is a PC designed game, shipping exclusively on the PC," Bleszinski said. Epic showed screen shots of Fortnite running on the next-gen Unreal Engine, showing off gorgeous lighting and modeling advances that accentuate the cartoonish style of the game.
Originally, Bleszinski said, Fortnite followed a more traditional post-apocalyptic, The Road-inspired aesthetic, but the team found the style "depressing." Designer Pete Ellis showed the evolution of one of the game's zombie-like enemy types, The Husk, and its transition from scary, wiry undead to its current more cartoonish style. The panel also revealed the name of the previously revealed enemy, the squat, teleporting Troll, which Bleszisnki described as "a manifestation of everything on the Internet that I hate."
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First screens from http://www.gameinformer.com/b/news/archive/2012/07/12/fortnite-is-the-first-unreal-engine-4-game.aspx:
http://media1.gameinformer.com/imagefeed/screenshots/Fortnite/Building.jpg
http://media1.gameinformer.com/imagefeed/screenshots/Fortnite/Faceoff.jpg
http://media1.gameinformer.com/imagefeed/screenshots/Fortnite/Scavengers.jpg
http://media1.gameinformer.com/imagefeed/screenshots/Fortnite/Durrrburger.jpg
http://media1.gameinformer.com/imagefeed/screenshots/Fortnite/NightCombat.jpg
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First podcast about the game with Tanya Jessen (http://forums.epicgames.com/threads/918344-Epic-Games-Podcast-Episode-5-with-Tanya-Jessen-Talks-about-Fortnite!)