Epic Video games launched its first Fortnite ecosystem 12 months in assessment for 2024, and it has so much to have a good time.
Epic stated Fortnite UEFN (Unreal Editor for Fortnite) paid out $324 million to creators in 2024. The variety of creators within the ecosystem practically tripled to 70,000, they usually revealed greater than 198,000 islands (video games/experiences).
These islands are getting visitors too, as practically 60,000 islands have been performed per day on common. And 70+% of gamers play each creator-made video games and Epic-made video games like Battle Royale.
Common gamers in creator-made video games was up yearly throughout the board in 2024, with every day energetic gamers up 15%; complete hours performed up 5%. And there was significant development in non-combat sport genres.
Extra particulars
Creator counts by payout for UEFN.
The creator group continues to develop at a fantastic tempo, with the variety of creators practically tripling from 24,000 in 2023 to 70,000 creators in 2024. The variety of islands revealed additionally doubled to a complete of 198,000 in 2024, together with 137,000 islands created in UEFN.
Whereas engagement varies month-to-month because of seasonality, the typical variety of gamers participating with creator islands on a every day, month-to-month, and annual foundation has elevated throughout the board this 12 months, with common every day gamers up 15% in 2024.
Epic stated it’s been inspiring to see extra creators succeeding within the Fortnite ecosystem. A complete of $352 million was paid to creators in 2024, up 11% when measuring March-December time intervals of 2023 to 2024.
In 2024, gamers spent 5.23 billion hours enjoying video games made by creators—a quantity that represents 36.5% of complete Fortnite playtime and continues to rise. This marks a 5% improve from the 4.98 billion hours in 2023.
These numbers are buoyed by significant development in sport genres that don’t characteristic fight, like social roleplay, get together video games, deathruns, and horror. Thus far in January 2025, such a selection content material has made up greater than 30% of time spent in creator-made experiences, a rise of practically 50% from the identical time interval final 12 months.
New options and units
In 2024, Epic improved the capabilities of what creators can construct with UEFN with the launches of the First Individual Digital camera machine, new UI instruments and HUD controls, Enter Triggers, Proximity chat, Persistence, Customized NPCs, and lots of extra impactful options.
Within the Creator Portal, Epic rolled out new methods to grasp a creator’s viewers, with enhancements to analytics and metrics about your payouts, your participant base and the introduction of island satisfaction knowledge. Epic additionally launched Creator Profiles to assist gamers discover all of related islands in a single place, and Favourite a Creator that can assist you construct audiences inside Fortnite.
Beloved IPs got here to UEFN and Fortnite Inventive in 2024, enabling you to create modern video games and experiences with official The LEGO Group, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, and Fall Guys belongings and gameplay units. This initiative lets you develop genuine business video games utilizing world class IP with out getting misplaced in contracts or negotiations, and is enabled with a single settlement.
This 12 months, Epic’s highlighted islands included the ARPG Fort Knight Legend by Love-is-Actual, pushed the boundaries of Verse UI, Verse Persistence, and RPG parts to ship a big and thrilling expertise.
One other was Havoc Lodge 2 [Roguelike] by TeraCreators, which set the usual for roguelike PVE in Fortnite, mixing Customized UI, RPG parts, and retention mechanics to interact gamers past roleplay and tycoon genres.
There was Lumberjack Heroes by ItsJacky, showcased the ability of UEFN with its customized UI and interesting gameloop. The island’s depth of play impressed different creators to push the bounds of Tycoon-style content material.
And one other widespread one was Pizza Store Tycoon Boss Struggle Replace! by TomJank, used TMNT templates, prefab, and units to create an genuine and interesting Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles expertise.
Lastly, Epic highlighted The Kraken: Bossfight by Gauntlet, a refined role-playing sport (RPG) that took the group by storm. With participating quests, exploration, dungeons, and a complicated boss battle, it units a brand new normal for immersive gameplay.
Wanting Forward
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As Epic seems forward to 2025, it plans to unlock extra prospects for creators. Together with shifting Scene Graph into beta testing, introducing customized objects, and launching extra instruments to assist creators construct deeper, extra advanced video games with UEFN in new and widespread genres.
The corporate acknowledged it has enhancements to make to UEFN and the creator expertise. It stated it’s is dedicated to growing stability, enhancing interplay instances throughout growth, giving creators insights and instruments to maintain and develop a participant base after launch, and making Uncover one of the best illustration of the big variety of video games out there for gamers.
Later this month, Epic will replace the general public Fortnite creator roadmap to let creators know what different options and updates they will anticipate all year long. The corporate will talk about the roadmap intimately, together with deeper conversations, at Unreal Fest in Orlando, occurring June 2 to June 5.
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