BRN KaiGoHi 🔥

Before you point at UEFN for today's announcement, understand that most growth in the games industry during 2025 came from two places: China and UGC. Roblox has dominated and UEFN is the next largest competitor. Fortnite started its race 12 years late, has technical debt from its BR cycle, has delayed mobile optimization due to litigation (which also benefited many developers), and several other challenges to work through. But it's also a bet on the only growth area in games right now. If you're not a game dev, I don't blame you for being surprised. Our industry has been in a difficult place since 2023. Almost every game studio I can think of has done layoffs, some multiple rounds (Riot Games as a recent example, who doesn't have a "UEFN" by the way). Even the studio I started my career at, which I left in 2019 and was 450 people, is now less than 40 people. That is the games industry today. What we need right now is to be supportive of those impacted and to focus on doing our part to help grow Fortnite into a larger platform that can sustain games from many different genres, including BR and UEFN. That creates more jobs, new opportunities, and an overall better outcome for all.

@WarforgeXP Talk about a description! Thanks for sharing the prompt! The hate is always the same about laziness or lack of creativity. You had a specific idea in mind and described it perfectly so how is that any different than a DM to an artist with the same info or less creative?

Create an image for a Fortnite Discovery thumbnail for a Tycoon-style game titled “Tiny Tycoon 💰”. Fishstick is the central character, smiling and cheerful, performing a playful action — such as jumping, swinging a tool, or waving while holding a golden cash register (not a Fortnite weapon). The scene evokes a “small player in a giant world” fantasy — Toy Story or Toy Soldiers scale. Surround Fishstick with massive oversized coins, enormous blades of grass, and whimsical props like giant pencils, dice, toy blocks, and scattered cash terrain. Buildings and shops should appear subtly in the background (at the horizon or edges) — miniaturized but not the visual focus. Props like piggy banks or vault doors can be embedded into the terrain or environment. The world base should be a rich, detailed environment like a backyard, park, or bedroom floor — with exaggerated scale and Fortnite’s saturated, cartoony art direction. Add verticality through props like hills of coins or toy structures. The sky must be bright blue, with a high-saturation gradient shifting from orange to blue in the background to add energy. Use soft, stylized lighting with a cartoony feel. Apply high-contrast values to the character and foreground props. Include a slight Dutch tilt on the camera to convey action and clarity. Logo Text Requirements: In the top third of the image, include bold, 3D title text: “TINY TYCOON 💰” - Match Fortnite logo style: thick block letters, clean bevels - Add a multi-stop gradient fill (example: yellow-orange or gold-pink hues) - Use a subtle metallic sheen or light reflection - Apply a glow or bloom edge (especially around the 💰 icon) - Add a drop shadow or stroke outline for clarity over complex backgrounds - Ensure the logo “pops” even at thumbnail size (500px wide). Fishstick’s pose must be instantly readable at small scale. The silhouette should be bold, clear, and action-oriented. Render the full scene in 3D, keeping within Fortnite’s aesthetic — colorful, saturated, high-readability. Final resolution: 1920x1080, cinematic layout. No UI or overlays.

Most thumbnails get skipped. This GPT prompt helps you make one that doesn’t 👇

@CCruzFight Oh yeah I agree with the marketing aspect. I can’t really see a lot of fn players flocking to it but the game dev community overall is pretty prominent from my few days of experience

@KaiGoHiFN I’m over there already! It’s nice for staying in touch without these annoying things I mentioned but I fear it’s got the same inability to be a marketing tool for players :/ Guess we all gotta make shorts and TikTok content 24/7

Been quiet lately but that doesn't mean I haven't been cookin!

@dummblond I love uefn it’s opened up so many possibilities and it’s still growing but I miss the old days, the general heart sinking feeling of getting the green email and the custom thumbnail epic would make for you 😭

@dummblond It’s crazy the state of things we have maybe 25% honest, incredibly hard working and talented creators 75% scam “creators” who have never made anything unique or had a unique idea and worst of all predatory behaviors towards other creators

This guy was in my DMs... bro and man. Way to look at the actual profile. I am at a loss for words. I cannot believe where we are compared to the start of this community... we aren't even a community anymore. I am just so damn sad. I will forever mourn what we had before all this. So many bad decisions all over the place.

@PixelandPoly_FN Thank you! Everyone is okay thankfully. Power company is saying the estimated restoration time is 10/5 😱 3 days so far with 80+ degree heat has been brutal. We also lost literally all our refrigerator and freezer food been living on chips and snack cakes

@KaiGoHiFN I hope you get back up and running soon! Hope you all are ok, though.

Day 2 of no power from the storm.. looks like I may not be making the callout after all 😭 feels bad

@Jakkofn @OzyFNC I feel this! My son is 14 and dude is a monster at literally every game we play and is currently carrying me to unreal in ranked. I might get 3-4 kills to his 18-20 every game it’s nuts how fast kids reaction time is these days lol

@KaiGoHiFN @OzyFNC 100% agree. One minute I’m young with a baby and then all of a sudden he’s 13. Plus side is that he is absolutely cracked at Fortnite and carries me when we play. I agree take as many videos as possible. It’s nice to look back on photos but I look back at old videos more

My biggest project comes out in ~9 months! I’m going to be a dad 💪😎

My last Creative map before UEFN released 🥲

@BroGameDev holy!!! that UI! 🤌

@beauty_heart7 The only way you would be able to tell is if you take your cpu cooler off and take a pic of the serial number on the side to compare it. Just one last thing have you tried the bios update for your motherboard? def make sure you do that before sending it or they wont replace it

PSA to all my UEFN homies out there. If you have an 13 or 14th Gen Intel processor and have been having underwhelming performance or frequent UEFN or Fortnite crashes check your motherboard manufacturers website asap for a bios update. More info in comments

@beauty_heart7 That’s sucks! If you built your PC then intel customer support can send you just the new processor. This time around I opted to have a custom build made to save me time and sadly they don’t mail processors which is why I had to send my whole pc in which was a huge pain

@beauty_heart7 If you have a 13th or 14th gen intel processor in the affected list and are experiencing degradation issues it absolutely will keep getting worse. For me that was causing crashes tho not unable to open at all.

@dummblond 😅well do you happen to know what processor your new pc has?

@KaiGoHiFN I have no idea what you just said 😭😭😭 I hate dealing with computers

I can swipe my credit card for anything with no problem EXCEPT having to buy a new computer. You know a computer, the thing I use every single day to make the things that make me money lmao but I have such a hard time buying them. I hate it and mine is basically dead so here we are... 😭