Yeah, it doesn't really look like the kind of thing I'd design for 12-year-olds to use?
Lua would probably work just as well and been a better choice...
Lua would probably work just as well and been a better choice...
- this reduces fortnite’s audience to 12 year olds. the average age of a fortnite player is an adult
- fortnite custom mods / modes are nearly all developed by adults (the people who will write in this language)
- verse is designed to be used more widely than just fortnite in other games by other game develoment professionals (that are nearly all adults)
i don’t understand how anyone can see a game that makes billions each year and think “12 year olds” are the driving force. video games are not just for teenagers and adults are the primary revenue streams because they have the disposable income
62% of Fortnite players are 18-24
Yes, there are a lot of kids playing it, and it's very popular with them. But there's also a huge audience of adults.
Epic doesn't release specific numbers but they say in the T&C for creative that the content should appeal to 15-25 year olds I believe
They are ridiculously sensitive to their perceived age groups for games.
Kids' TV shows tend to have secondary audiences of their parents. I think this wouldn't apply to games as much but maybe there's some of that.
1. What does revenue have to do with target audience age? Roblox makes billions, right?
2. The only people I know that play fortnite are younger than 15.
3. "fortnite custom mods / modes are nearly all developed by adults" -> because the language is too difficult for new programmers?
4. "verse is designed to be used more widely than just fortnite" -> so is Lua and Python.
"I’m really excited that there will be 12-year-olds being introduced to programming by making Fortnite islands, using Verse and functional programming."
to which GP's comment is a valid response:
"It doesn't really look like the kind of thing I'd design for 12-year-olds to use?"
While one can agree or disagree, your response in that context is not correct:
"This reduces fortnite’s audience to 12 year olds."
Not at all. The discussion was about 12 year old players, not all players.