Integrated Virtual World Platforms As both independent game engines and live services suites developed over the past two decades, other companies combined these approaches into a new one: integrated virtual world platforms (IVWPs) such as Roblox, Minecraft, and Fortnite Creative. IVWPs are based around their own general-purpose and cross-platform game engines, similar to Unity and Unreal (Fortnite Creative, or FNC, which is owned by Epic Games, is built using Epic’s Unreal Engine). However, they are designed so that no actual “coding” is required. Instead, games, experiences, and virtual
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