How Fortnite is Teaching Kids to Build Cities [Epic Partner Feature]

What if you could rebuild London from scratch?

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Re:Imagine London was developed by Epic Games, Zaha Hadid Architects and AccuCities, Epic Games is the publisher of the island.

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Re:Imagine London a Creator Made Island in Fortnite designed by Zaha Hadid Architects, powered by Unreal Editor for Fortnite (UEFN) published by Epic Labs.

Design: Zaha Hadid Architects [ZHA]
Research and Development in participatory urbanism and Architectural Geometry by the Computation and Design Group [ZHACODE] Concept Design, Build Content Production , Integration + Optimisation, Documentation Multimedia + Videography.

Game Development: Epic Games, Beyond Creative.
Additional Development: Heavy Iron, Sweet Justice Sound, Hardsuit Labs, art by rens.

High Fidelity Map and Environment Context: AccuCities.

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[_Gamer]

If there is a game to fix cities, Fortnite is not it. City Skylines should have considered this since town and city planner professionals also play it.

[CMVBrielman]

Fixing a 2000+ year old city = plopping modernist buildings in a computer game.

[MeI-ctdv]

No way 💀💀💀 we got london fortnite collab before gta 6

[Daesig]

I'm quite disappointed how this has been spun in to "fixed london". It hasn't done anything to fix london, there's 1000's of issues that need to be seriously addressed.
What has been achieved is a London building sandbox in Fortnite, where people can create their ideal little buildings all around. How does that accomplish anything, if not oversimplify what goes into building a city?

The focus should have been to bring awareness to younger generations, showing the significance of public spaces and architecture.

Another promotional content. Summary: rich architects/developers want to build more luxury, soulless and inefficient glass facade high rise buildings which will be bought up by billionaires around the world to use it as a bank account. Let’s hope they won’t be able to succeed.

[Artista_Frustrado]

3 questions:
1- Why Fortnite of all games?
2- what are they even expecting to accomplish when the City is 50% Archeological sites they can't tear down to rebuild the city anyway
3—When are you all going to accept that Housing Crises are caused by bad legislation allowing Basic Rights to be treated as Speculation Markets and not because "we aren't making enough Modernist buildings"?

[JohnSmith-lcml]

So far this video is very low quality compared to most stuff on this channel. No a video game design didnt fix london. They got to build with no restrictions and even if the design magically became reality it would still run into a lot of the same issues and some new ones.

[rthomp]

1:25 - That's a weird way to present a statistic to make it seem worse than it is. 149 hours over a year isn't all that bad. That's slightly more than 30 minutes per day, or 15 minutes each way. I often experience worse traffic than that in Denver, especially if any kind of weather happens. To say that "costs the city" some random amount of money is assuming the people stuck in traffic would do something more productive with their time if they weren't in traffic. Most would not.

[misterscottintheway]

I appreciate the clear indication of sponsored content so much that I will watch the video even though I find epic and fortnight utterly repellant. Thank you for being a good YouTube citizen.

[julwa]

12 min advertisment for a game, no thanks

[EthsGames]

This is genuinely impressive but also a great way to show that games can actually teach you so much

[TheLiamster]

I’d love to see this become a series focusing in different cities. Washington DC and New York would be great video ideas

[PausePause]

A very interesting concept! I really love the idea of using technology to inspire people who would have otherwise never been exposed to this kind of planning.

If this proves a success I would be intrigued to see how this can be scaled up with other similar games, such as Cities Skylines.

Working on the industry has shown me how technology has interwoven with construction, through the use of Lidar to virtually scan rooms, and modeling tools to plan out whole buildings.

These games are another tool in the belt to help engineers accomplish their goals, and helps excite the public about the work they’re doing

[kentslocum]

I fail to see how this fixes or solves anything. Architects and designers have always had grand visions for cities, but cities are generally developed piecemeal, and run up against constraints like money, time, and community pushback. Only dictatorships or single-party governments have the unilateral power to create entire planned cities from wholecloth.

[desanipt]

The best way to reduce traffic is to provide with alternatives and do the best not to incentivize car usage for those who are fully capable of taking the alternative. And often times that involves taking space away from cars to speed up public transportation and light modes that are way more space efficient

[youtubeusrname]

Zaha Hadid x Epic Games x The B1M? Weird ahh timeline. I'm here for it. Love it!

[winnied]

London: I didn't ask to be fixed. Lol 😂

[Leeroy]

Grid cities are still ugly :) luckily it's only one reason. It's still funny to listen to people who obviously never played computer games. Interesting that they used the Fortnite Engine for that.

[_mickmccarthy]

When I moved to London as a student, I used The Getaway (and its sequel) to help get the layout of central into my head!

[FrazerMerrick]

You are not stuck in traffic. You ARE traffic.