The game's developed shifted significantly following the beta release of the Fortnite Battle Royale in September 2017, a battle royale game where 100 players compete to be the last player standing after dropping from an airborne Battle Bus onto an island featuring several points of interest (POIs), a wide spread of various weapons and gear, and a harmful storm front that periodically shrinks in size to draw players into smaller areas on the island.
Fortnite has conducted continuous collaborations, such as Disney, Marvel, and DC.
With the launch of Season 4 in May 2018, Epic Games used a series of in-game events to tease a narrative structure that would be used for all future seasons,[2] and used further in-game events to explain changes to the island's map.
[3] Chief creative officer Donald Mustard explained that the idea of including narrative had been part of the concept of Fornite Battle Royale from the start, but because the game is primarily a multiplayer game, determining how to introduce story element had been difficult.
Epic found that driving toward large, end-of-chapter events that would lead to changes in the island in the next season.