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When GDC happened in March 2023, there was a State of Unreal presentation. One of the segments of the presentation was the introduction of Epic Games new programming language called Verse. There is a one-hour+ video of that segment talking about how the programming language works and what is Tim Sweeney's vision for it:
Not everyone will have time to watch that video so I will summarize a number of things. The Verse programming language is targeted towards video games, 3D simulations and content for the metaverse (not referring to Facebook's metaverse).
Tim Sweeney's definition of the metaverse is: (Transcript of slide)
Next slide transcript, programming foundation of the metaverse:
Next slide transcript, the aspiration for Verse:
Next slide transcript, why this is considered an ambitious programming language:
Next slide transcript, evolving Verse:
During the video they then get Phil Pizio (Director of Language Engineering) on stage to show how Verse works. It's very simple in explanation so it's easy to watch it on the video. Note: Phil says in the video that Verse supports curly braces {} for blocks of code if you do not like using the whitespace indent syntax from Python/Haskell.
There's also a demonstration of it being used in Unreal Editor for Fortnite.
During the video, they put up a slide which says:
Note: A number of those people on the Verse Team are computer science professors, some of them were even responsible for creating programming languages decades ago.
A Q&A happens and that's it.
If you're curious about learning the Verse programming language, all the documentation can be found in the following domain: https://dev.epicgames.com/documenta...ming-with-verse-in-unreal-editor-for-fortnite
Note: The Verse programming language is currently only accessible in Unreal Editor for Fortnite.
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The second half of this post is about the Fortnite Engagement payout:
Also related, Creator Economy 2.0:
You use the Unreal Editor for Fortnite to make games inside Fortnite. If people play your game, then you could make money (depending on the conditions for that from their policies).
From the Fortnite Engagement payout link:
And this image is also from that link:
Make sure you read the fine print in the bottom right corner of that image.
From the rest of that link:
Some other videos that are related but not as important:
Not everyone will have time to watch that video so I will summarize a number of things. The Verse programming language is targeted towards video games, 3D simulations and content for the metaverse (not referring to Facebook's metaverse).
Tim Sweeney's definition of the metaverse is: (Transcript of slide)
Next slide transcript, programming foundation of the metaverse:
Next slide transcript, the aspiration for Verse:
Next slide transcript, why this is considered an ambitious programming language:
(Things heard during the video, Tim Sweeney said that Verse will have its own markup language and its own equivalent to JSON called VSON.)
Next slide transcript, evolving Verse:
During the video they then get Phil Pizio (Director of Language Engineering) on stage to show how Verse works. It's very simple in explanation so it's easy to watch it on the video. Note: Phil says in the video that Verse supports curly braces {} for blocks of code if you do not like using the whitespace indent syntax from Python/Haskell.
There's also a demonstration of it being used in Unreal Editor for Fortnite.
During the video, they put up a slide which says:
Note: A number of those people on the Verse Team are computer science professors, some of them were even responsible for creating programming languages decades ago.
A Q&A happens and that's it.
If you're curious about learning the Verse programming language, all the documentation can be found in the following domain: https://dev.epicgames.com/documenta...ming-with-verse-in-unreal-editor-for-fortnite
Note: The Verse programming language is currently only accessible in Unreal Editor for Fortnite.
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The second half of this post is about the Fortnite Engagement payout:
Also related, Creator Economy 2.0:
You use the Unreal Editor for Fortnite to make games inside Fortnite. If people play your game, then you could make money (depending on the conditions for that from their policies).
From the Fortnite Engagement payout link:
And this image is also from that link:
Make sure you read the fine print in the bottom right corner of that image.
From the rest of that link:
Some other videos that are related but not as important:
