We cornered Epic lead Cliff Bleszinski on the VGAs red carpet yesterday to talk about the newly announced Fortnite, and he says that it’ll be very different fare from the popular Gears of War series. “There’s no dudebros in it,” he told us outright. “Not that there’s anything wrong with that, right? But creatively for the team, Gears has been amazing for us. But it’s fun to kind of stretch our wings and do something that’s a little different from the usual.”
Epic’s Lee Perry is the project lead on this one, but Bleszinski says that he definitely is involved in playing the game and giving feedback on development. “It was a project that was pitched internally. I was a staunch supporter of the idea, because the game is just like a no-brainer — I was like yes.”
So Epic is hard at work on Fortnite, Chair Entertainment is doing Infinity Blade on iOS, and we’re curious as to what Bleszinski is up to lately. “I just hang out at the beach these days,” he joked. “No, trust me, I have plenty to work on, it’s just a lot of unannounced stuff. Trying to figure out where a lot of things are going in the next five years.”
Given the success of Chair’s iOS offerings, is that platform something that Epic’s main branch would consider making games for? Bleszinski says no. “If we were to do that, which we’re not, we’d probably make like six or seven iOS games. Our bread and butter is still with triple A and it’s still largely with console, but it remains to be seen what happens.”
Cliff B talks Fortnite: ‘There’s no dudebros in it’ originally appeared on Joystiq on Sun, 11 Dec 2011 14:30:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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