Epic announces partnership to bring Unity games into Fortnite

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It's certainly not the same, but this reminds me of the "NFTs in video games" lunacy of a few years back. Just add NFTs to your games! An ore mined in Minecraft will somehow be usable in every other game!

It's not clear at all to me why people who are playing Fortnite would want to launch a completely different game within it. Doesn't it just become the Epic Games Store at that point? Is this just a growth hack to try to bootstrap another Steam competitor after the unmitigated disaster of their last attempt?

>Fortnite would want to launch a completely different game within it.

Roblox. There's a theoretical mass market for being a platform for amateur multi-player arcade games. Mihoyo did exactly this only a month ago when they talked on their Roblox-style Milastra Wonderland to Genshin Impact to take advantage of the exposure.

Roblox isn't embedding arbitrary Unity games though; they're exposing an SDK to use the base Roblox multi-player framework for custom game modes -- which Fortnite also already does, no?

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