Donald Mustardresponsible for success Fortnite and other trendsetting games on the App Store are leaving Epic Games. Creative director announced his retirementfollowed by 25 years in the video game industry at companies such as Terminal Reality, ChAIR and Epic.
“After an incredible journey, I am retiring this month as Creative Director of Epic,” Mustard said on his X account. “I am honored to be part of a team that strives to bring “joy and delight” every day.” ‘community Fortnite! The teams are in good hands and are working on huge and amazing things,” he said.
Yes, sure Fortnite gained explosive popularity after copying the format battle royale To PUBG, its persistence is due to mustard. Creative director was responsible for history and the events that defined each season. Remember when the island flips over at the end of Chapter 2? Or is a great black hole swallowing everything, including the players? And all this thanks to Donald Mustard and his team.
Epic Games’ creative director was decisive for Fortnite It has grown from a video game into a global phenomenon.. Concerts of Travis Scott or Marshmello, or collaborations with Marvel, star Wars, Game console They gave birth to the concept of the metaverse.
Donald Mustard explained in an interview that all of these characters coming to the island had a reason to go down in history. Fortnite. The game was a metaverse consists of superheroes or villains from films and other video game franchises. An example of the scale of this idea occurred in War on the Nexus in the fourth season, where Fortnite became part of the Marvel universe.
Not only Fortnite: Donald Mustard also helped promote iPhone games.
Although Donald Mustard is known for his work in Fortnite, the creative director developed several games with ChAIR Entertainment before fully joining the ranks of Epic Games. Among them there are saga Endless Bladewhich debuted on the App Store in 2010. to demonstrate the power of Unreal Engine 3.
Times were different because when people talked about mobile games, they immediately thought of angry Birds, Doodle jump and other games with simple graphics. Endless Blade introduced new features thanks to the Epic Games graphics engine and released two more games in subsequent years, completing the trilogy.
Before contacting Fortnitedirected by Donald Mustard Robo-Memorygame with the same purpose as Endless Blade: Show the potential of Unreal Engine in an environment other than traditional video games. Robo-Memory — a first-person shooter for virtual reality glasses. The story is set in a not-too-distant future where robots are rebelling against humans, and it’s your job to bring them to their senses.
Other projects include Combat Destroyers (iOS). Shadow Complex (Xbox). Low tide (Xbox Live) Advent Sunrise (Windows) and BloodRain (Window). Judging by announcement on social networksDonald Mustard He has no plans to move to another studio in the short term.. “I’m excited to spend time with my wife and family, and I will be forever grateful to Tim Sweeney and the Epic Games family,” he said.
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