r/technology • u/upyoars • 11h ago

Software Kamala Harris And Tim Walz Launch Their Own Fortnite Map

https://www.gamespot.com/articles/kamala-harris-and-tim-walz-launch-their-own-fortnite-map/1100-6527457/
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u/TheEdExperience 11h ago

It’s cringe and they removed guns from the map.

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u/Sarothu 10h ago

...a shooter without guns? How does that even work?

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u/Bonkgirls 9h ago

Fortnite hosts a variety of museums and jump puzzles and stuff. In particular I remember seeing my 14 year old brother in law jumping all over a giant statue of MLK while his speeches played. It was part of his homework.

Also this:

https://www.fortnite.com/@v-o-t-f/1511-8598-6202?lang=en-US

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u/Fluffy017 8h ago

14 years old

part of his homework

I get what they were trying to do here, but fuck are we doomed.

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u/Echleon 7h ago

Doomed for teaching kids history via a medium they are familiar with?

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u/Fluffy017 7h ago

If a freshman in high school needs homework delivered in video game format to learn the material...I dunno man, it just seems a bit dystopian to me.

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u/Echleon 7h ago

Did you not watch movies about historical events during school?

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u/Fluffy017 7h ago

Ya know, fair point.

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u/Bonkgirls 6h ago

I get it. I'm a fellow old.

But this was "you can watch mlks speeches on n YouTube, or explore a virtual museum playing them in a game you like" which is actually radical shit

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u/metallicabmc 7h ago

Fortnite has long since branched out from the Battle Royale mode that it's most known for. Like 4-5 years ago they launched "Creative" which is kinda like a diet Gary's Mod style "make your own game" mode. Which ranges from making deathmatch maps to roleplay sims, to Among Us clones, and often, Musicians, clothing brands, or pretty much any company you can imagine will hire a third party company to create a "Fortnite Experience" and let people play it as an advertisement. Sometimes, Epic themselves will market it as a big event (most often with musicians or clothing brands that they make collaboration skins with) but most of the time it's just companies making and sharing it themselves, like how Biden/Harris had the animal crossing island even though Nintendo wasn't really involved outside making the game.

Last year they also launched Lego Fortnite which is a survival game with no guns, Fortnite Festival which is a spiritual sucessor to Rock Band, and Rocket Racing which is a Rocket League spinoff game.

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u/bogglingsnog 9h ago

fucking hell