Fortnite builds a hopeful future for Epic, free-to-play

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Sometime last year a meme was making the rounds of an interior design student's school project in which they were tasked with creating the worst house floor plan ever. There was a toilet in the dining room, another toilet could only be accessed by going through a shower, and a bedroom defined by a chain-linked fence. This made plenty of sense in comparison to the mad, ramshackle designs my compatriots and I composed in Epic's upcoming free-to-play building & defense game Fortnite.
Like the hilariously twisted satirical college assignment, the sorts of rushed structures we construct in Fortnite are rubbish for things like eating, sleeping, and crapping - but who cares? The pertinent question is "can it keep zombies out?"
The answer depends on your tactics, skill, and maybe a bit of good old fashioned luck. Of course we've seen a glut of other build and defend games over the last few years with Minecraft, Rust and State of Decay paving the way, but Epic's putting its own accessible, action-focused spin on the genre.
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