One yr in the past, Disney invested $1.5 billion into Epic Video games to create a large Disney x Fortnite expertise that has but to return to fruition. However at South by Southwest, considered one of Disney’s Imagineers teased the best way that this on-line expertise might be able to play off of a visitor’s journey to a Disney theme park.
Throughout the Disney parks panel at SXSW, Walt Disney Imagineering’s Asa Kalama–who oversees interactive experiences at Disney theme parks–used a journey in Star Wars Galaxy’s Edge for example of how the real-life journey on the theme park can have an effect on the Disney x Fortnite sport for guests.
“Think about… what in case you may go to the park and have an expertise in Smuggler’s Run [and] go on this superb mission, however then have that have an effect on or join your gameplay at house,” mentioned Kalama.
Smuggler’s Run is a journey that locations six individuals in command of the Millennium Falcon, and friends are graded on how properly they carried out, and in the event that they escape with the cargo. A profitable mission is meant to bolster the repute of the friends who pulled it off. Carrying that repute over from the park to the sport stands out as the interplay that Kalama is suggesting. Or maybe reaching that feat can earn XP or a particular merchandise.
Disney and Epic Video games have but to totally outline what their collaboration might be, though most theories revolve round it being a metaverse expertise that unites a number of of Disney’s main manufacturers together with Pixar, Marvel, Star Wars, Avatar, and ESPN. The venture not too long ago reached a milestone with the creation of a steady construct, however followers have but to see it for themselves.
Final October, Disney’s Josh D’Amaro described the Disney x Fortnite expertise as “a spot the place you possibly can play video games, a spot the place you will be social, a spot the place customers can generate their very own content material.” He additionally indicated that the corporate went ahead with its huge funding in Epic Video games as a result of it had “to adapt, or we’re going to be left behind.”