Fortnite developer tools

Powerful creation tools that provide everything you need to build your next game in Fortnite.

Powerful Unreal Engine tools

With Unreal Editor for Fortnite (UEFN), create Fortnite games using many of Unreal Engine's proven tools and workflows for lighting, VFX, animation, worldbuilding, and more — alongside out-of-the-box gameplay mechanics, multiplayer, and backend systems.

Environments and Landscapes
⁠Lighting
⁠Animation and Cinematics
⁠Niagara

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Build fast. Launch everywhere.

Quickly go from idea to launch with game-ready assets, pre-built templates, gameplay mechanics, and foundational systems — including multiplayer, combat, social features, hosting, and backend services — all built in. Publish to Fortnite, and your game becomes instantly available on PC, mobile, PlayStation, Xbox, and Nintendo.

Starter Templates
⁠Build Your First Island
⁠Design Examples 

Get to know Verse

Verse is a programming language designed for online games. Use it to create reusable game logic, manipulate devices (pre-built gameplay mechanics), or chain them together for more complex interactions. You can also leverage Scene Graph — a unified structure connecting every object in your world — to add rich gameplay interactions and scale your environment quickly.

Get Started with Verse
⁠Scene Graph
⁠Epic Developer Assistant

Create with world-famous brands

Build with officially licensed content from The LEGO® Group, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, The Walking Dead Universe, Squid Game, KPop Demon Hunters, and more. Each partnership gives you access to exclusive assets — including characters, environments, and templates — so you can create experiences set in fan-favorite universes that players instantly recognize.

Explore Brand Game Collections
⁠Accessing Brand Content

Another way to build

Fortnite Creative is a sandbox where you can create, edit, and save projects directly in Fortnite — on PC, mobile, or console. Build entirely in Creative, or use it alongside UEFN. “Live Edit” lets you use Creative to make immediate changes to your UEFN project while playtesting.

Fortnite Creative User Interface
⁠Playtesting Your Island

Find an audience, grow your game and monetize

Let's get started

Ready to create games in Fortnite? Learn the fundamentals with these sample projects and tutorials.

Feature example projects

Use feature examples in UEFN to learn specific features or game mechanics. All of these templates include companion tutorials. More Feature Examples.

  • Box Fight

    A fast-paced shooting game where players try to eliminate each other in a very limited space.

  • Parkour

    Discover a fun starter setup for a parkour-style game.

  • Animation

    Learn how to animate skeletal meshes with the Animation 101 template.

  • User Interfaces

    Learn how to create a custom UI by exploring Creative devices, widgets, and material functions.

Tutorials & tech talks

Explore tutorials created by Epic and the community, plus tech talks from developer and community events.

  • Build your first island in Fortnite

    Build a minigame with UEFN with this step-by-step tutorial!

  • A breakdown of advanced UEFN techniques that push the limits of UEFN.

  • Get an overview of everything you need to begin building in Fortnite.

  • Dive into the creative and technical journey behind LEGO®: Dark Space.

Fortnite Zone Wars

Documentation

Know what you want to do, but not how? Dig into our documentation to find your footing.


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Get Started 
⁠Import Content and Islands
⁠Learn Programming with Verse 
⁠Collaborate and Publish 
⁠Fortnite Developer Roadmap

EDA in Editor

Epic Developer Assistant

Ask questions, generate Verse code, and follow step-by-step guidance with the AI-powered Epic Developer Assistant. Access the assistant online or directly within UEFN via a dedicated slide-out panel. You can also use it like a tooltip — just hover over any interface element and press F1 to start a conversation about that topic.

Join the Epic Developer Community

  • Forums

    Join discussions on the Fortnite developer forums, showcase your work, and more.

  • Discord

    Join the official Fortnite developer server to chat with other developers, ask questions, and talk with Epic devs.

  • Fortnite Developer Roadmap

    Explore features coming to Fortnite developers in the future.

Download UEFN today

Download everything you need to get started, for free!

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