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The article covers that in many ways Fortnite is a social network and that's certainly true in my house. My step-son often jumps on to talk to the friends he h

The article covers that in many ways Fortnite is a social network and that's certainly true in my house. My step-son often jumps on to talk to the friends he has at school or where his father lives, often he just finds a corner of a room and hunkers down he's not actively playing (though he does of course do that as well). In a strange way epic has made a compelling second life by focusing on the game playing aspect first. With the creation tools they have, it'd be interesting to see what would happen if players could make their own maps that where shareable so others could visit.

xwdv 7y ago
Some players will even just gather around without shooting or killing each other to talk or mess around or whatever.
- wingerlang 7y ago
  How does this work out with the map continuously shrinking?
  - sc11 7y ago
    There's a playground/sandbox mode. You can also do it in the normal BR mode. It takes a few minutes until the circle starts shrinking and it shrinks in multiple phases, so you have 5-10min (more if you're lucky) to just mess around before it gets too small.
cheez 7y ago
> With the creation tools they have, it'd be interesting to see what would happen if players could make their own maps that where shareable so others could visit. This already exists, called creative mode. My son and his friends play this all the time - they even planned a sleepover party for 10 kids around it.
acpetrov 7y ago
I graduated high school 5 years ago, and in that generation (of video game culture) our social game was League of Legends. Everyone was always online. Ya, we liked the game, some even cared about their rank, but the beauty was playing with all your friends and talking over Skype. I'm glad that kids have the opportunity to be social in a time where technology often makes us lonelier
ehsankia 7y ago
Good to hear that this is still the case. Back in the days, games felt so much more community based, with persistent servers you would go back to day after day to hang out with the same set of people. With the rise of quick match and match making, it felt like that was dying, and communities are instead pulling into Twitch and Discord instead. Some of my closest online friends were made in online games, so it's good that newer games still allow for that.

xwdv 7y ago

Some players will even just gather around without shooting or killing each other to talk or mess around or whatever.

wingerlang 7y ago
How does this work out with the map continuously shrinking?
- sc11 7y ago
  There's a playground/sandbox mode. You can also do it in the normal BR mode. It takes a few minutes until the circle starts shrinking and it shrinks in multiple phases, so you have 5-10min (more if you're lucky) to just mess around before it gets too small.

cheez 7y ago

> With the creation tools they have, it'd be interesting to see what would happen if players could make their own maps that where shareable so others could visit. This already exists, called creative mode. My son and his friends play this all the time - they even planned a sleepover party for 10 kids around it.

acpetrov 7y ago

I graduated high school 5 years ago, and in that generation (of video game culture) our social game was League of Legends. Everyone was always online. Ya, we liked the game, some even cared about their rank, but the beauty was playing with all your friends and talking over Skype. I'm glad that kids have the opportunity to be social in a time where technology often makes us lonelier

ehsankia 7y ago

Good to hear that this is still the case. Back in the days, games felt so much more community based, with persistent servers you would go back to day after day to hang out with the same set of people. With the rise of quick match and match making, it felt like that was dying, and communities are instead pulling into Twitch and Discord instead. Some of my closest online friends were made in online games, so it's good that newer games still allow for that.