Seems like Disney is cooking up one thing on this planet of video video games. A couple of job listings went up on the Disney Careers web site on the finish of final month, for senior and common gameplay engineer positions. As is par for the course for listings like these, what precisely it’s you would be engaged on wasn’t talked about, nevertheless it does say that Disney is “constructing an knowledgeable growth workforce that can be constructing a groundbreaking sport expertise that may herald the following era of Disney to the world.”
Each roles point out Disney, Pixar, Star Wars, and Marvel, so it sounds prefer it is likely to be a cross-property mission. Notably, it additionally mentions that having expertise in Unreal Editor for Fortnite and Verse (the programming language used for UEFN), making it sound like these roles could possibly be for Disney’s beforehand introduced metaverse inside Fortnite. That deal noticed Disney make investments $1.5 billion into Epic Video games, although we’re but to see any outcomes from it bar the standard collaborations Fortnite options.
Earlier this yr, prolific Fortnite leaker Hypex shared that this Disney metaverse had been moved right into a “secure” construct/department, however apart from the preliminary announcement final yr, there’s solely been a small tease about how the home of mouse’s theme parks may combine with the sport.
The senior gameplay designer function additionally makes point out of requiring expertise within the prototyping part of a mission, so that you most likely should not count on this Disney x Fortnite metaverse for some time but.