In Fortnite: Battle Royale (PC, PS4, iOS, Switch & Xbox One) will the gameplay soon disappear and be relaunched in Season 5. But actually, the Creative Practice Mode has the potential for its own game with a business model!
What is the Creative Mode? The Creative Mode lets you as a 4-player team play alone on the Fortnite Battle Royale map. There you can respawn as many times as you want and build massive structures. Your creativity knows no bounds.
More than just a mode? Actually, the Creative Mode is meant to practice the gameplay of shooting and building and to explore the map. However, the Creative Mode has the potential to become a whole game within the game!
Fortnite á la Minecraft
Why not a new game variant? The website Engadget has long contemplated the Creative Mode. The result: Epic would be foolish not to take advantage of it. Ideally, it would perhaps be to create a sort of third Fortnite game version. So PvE, PvP, and a building game in Minecraft style.
Since players already love to play in the Creative Mode (and everything is gone at the end of the game), an endless building mode like Minecraft would be a good idea. One could even incorporate NPCs and monsters like in the PvE mode.
Players could trade their creations: Furthermore, Epic could allow players to trade their creations with each other for real money. This works similarly to the marketplace on Steam, where between 2011 and 2015, Valve raked in over 171 million US dollars.
The Creative Mode as a Development Platform
Create your own game: According to the website Engadget, one could go even further and make the Creative Mode a sort of mini-developer platform. Then one would no longer have to use the good old island PvP map, but could offer a complete blank map that players would then fill.
Inspired by Roblox: Roblox is half game, half development program. There you can create your own games with cute Lego characters within the system’s guidelines and share them with other players. There are about 64 million active players. More than 1.7 million of them are developers who generated over 30 million US dollars in 2017.
New Game Modes – By Players for Players
Players could then also develop new game modes in the new mode. Already there are race tracks like in Mario Kart or a competition where the goal is to cleverly edit the floor tiles under the opponent’s feet in a tower, causing them to fall to their death.
Viral Marketing: The success of Roblox is also based on many streamers through whom it became popular. Fortnite also has plenty of streamers at work. New creations would spread quickly and generate a lot of revenue.
