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Epic Games will give away free cross-platform Fortnite tools to developers
August 22, 2025
Today,Epic Games— the creator of the mega-smash hit battle royale gameFortnite— announced that it will offera new set of free developer toolsto game-makers of all kinds. The completely free software development kit (SDK) will work on games for any platform on any store running on any engine.
Did we mention that it’s all free?
So far, the SDK — known as Online Services — supports two development tools. The first is game analytics, which allows developers to keep track of what’s going on while players play their games. These stats are things such as player retention, new player counts, game launch counts, online user counts, and more.
The second tool is a ticketing system which will allow players to let developers know about any issues that might pop up for them while they play.
These two tools are already used by Epic Games in Fortnite, so you know they’re legit. Additionally, Epic promises more tools are on the way, many of which will likely launch by the end of the year:
September 2019
October 2019
November 2019
December 2019
Previously, Epic Games announced theEpic Games Store, a new game-selling platform that will go up againstSteam, Origin, and other internet-based merchants. It’s very likely that Epic sees this Online Services SDK as a way to encourage developers to sell on the Epic Games Store by offering them a powerful tool for free. However, even if developers only sell a product on a competing platform, they can still use the Online Services SDK.
Reportedly, Fortnite now has250 million active players. Perhaps the next game to achieve that kind of popularity will be using this Online Services SDK.
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