GhostBear

Indie & UGC Dev (UEFN, s&box), hobbyist composer

[GhostBear @GhostBearDev]

Hunt The Ghostbear out now! (official trailer coming soon)

7087-3326-0818

1-4 Players
Rescue Survivors
Search Campsites and Cabins for supplies
Eliminate the Ghostbear

#UEFN #CreatedInFortnite

[Marcos Romero @RomeroBlueprint]

UEFN Verse: NPC Character Definition
In this article, I'll show you how to use NPC Character Definitions to create a variety of NPCs from an array of NPC Spawner Devices using Verse.
https://t.co/s49c0VSqb6
#uefn #verse

[GhostBear @GhostBearDev]

Been working on new updates for my Backrooms game. Improved the NPCs, atmosphere, and a lot more. More levels will be coming soon. #Backrooms #UEFN #Liminal #Fortnite
https://t.co/XvFOW60Ml2

[Dustin (DWDFN) @duos_with_dad]

Hey @FNCreate,

The Star Wars tab is being overrun by generic clone maps using the skin changing ability as a marketing gimmick.

If this feature is intended for authentic Star Wars experiences, it should only work with Star Wars characters.

This gives players a poor experience and sends a terrible message to creators who invested real time and effort into building genuine Star Wars experiences, only to have their work buried beneath low effort maps exploiting this feature for visibility.

Is this really what you want Discover to reward and showcase to players?

[🔥GameDevMicah🔥 @GameDevMicah]

Don't sleep on this free Unreal Fest UEFN HLODS AND LEVEL OPTIMIZATIONS DOWNLOAD FROM GAMEDEVME
links in comments!

[GhostBear @GhostBearDev]

"Skeletal Animation in Scene Graph is now experimental."
By far the most important update. This will allow Devs and this platform to step away from the traditional Fortnite games and make this platform viable for the long-term. Excited to utilize these features.

[Immature @ImmatureGamer]

🌟 Fortnite Ecosystem v41.00 Update Summary

📅 June 5, 2026

🎮 Major Creator Updates:

1️⃣ Sidekicks as NPCs in UEFN
Sidekicks are now available as scriptable NPCs in UEFN.

Creators can customize how they look, animate them, script behavior with Verse, and even bring a player’s own Sidekick into an island experience.

Important note:
🔹 Publishing islands with Sidekick NPCs opens July 23
🔹 Creature based islands may get new Discover opportunities
🔹 Great for monster battlers, cozy farming games, creature RPGs, companion adventures, and more
🔹 Epic plans to feature creature-based islands in a new creature-based Collection page

2️⃣ Custom Weapon Templates
Creators can now use Scene Graph weapon templates for:
🔸 Pistol
🔸 SMG
🔸 Assault Rifle
🔸 Shotgun

You can customize how weapons look, sound, and play, including mesh, VFX, audio, damage, fire rate, spread, and recoil.

Important note:
These Scene Graph entities are not compatible with older saving methods like the Save Point device. Epic says to use Verse persistence.

3️⃣ Mobile Controls Upgrade (Experimental)
Big step for mobile friendly Fortnite games.
🔹 Touch Input Gestures
🔹 Custom touchscreen control layouts
🔹 Tappable custom HUD widgets
🔹 Verse API to detect touch enabled devices
🔹 New Designing for Mobile guide
This should help genres like tycoons, puzzle games, menus, inventories, and mobile first UI feel way better.

4️⃣ Community Events
Starting June 8, creators can create events in Fortnite Communities and share them in game.
Events can show in:
🔸 Following tab
🔸 Creator Profile page
🔸 Island page
🔸 Island Lobby, if enabled

Epic is also testing a Community Events row in Discover, but it will not show for all players and placement is not guaranteed.

🛠 UEFN Workflow Updates:
🔸 Push Changes now incrementally cooks only modified project parts
🔸 New Edit List Panel shows what is live and what still needs a push
🔸 Launch Session now combines multiple session actions
🔸 New Session Inspector gives better visibility into launch and Live Edit status
🔸 New Publishing Report helps catch issues before publishing
🔸 Improved Verse warning panel with direct VS Code links
🔸 New Editor Gizmo System
🔸 Physics setting moved into Island Settings
🔸 New Memory Snapshot tools help identify asset memory costs
🔸 Asset validation now warns when static meshes exceed 30k vertices at LOD0

Important Live Edit note:
Live Edit is improved, but some changes can still require Push Changes. The new tools make it clearer what is already live and what still needs to be pushed.

⚠️ Important Publishing Change:
Illegal Property Override warnings are now errors in v41.00.

That means new or updated islands with these errors are blocked from publishing. Current published versions where the warning appeared will stay live.

👤 Follow a Developer Update:
In v41.10, Epic will remove the Follow a Developer button from the Developer Profile Link device.

The device itself will still be usable, and existing follower counts are not affected.

If your island currently tells players to follow you through that device, update those callouts before v41.10.

🧑‍🚀 Hero Device Star Wars Update:
More Star Wars characters have been added to the Hero device for Star Wars islands:
🔹 Luke Skywalker
🔹 Obi-Wan Kenobi
🔹 Mace Windu
🔹 Kylo Ren
🔹 IG-11
🔹 Moff Gideon
🔹 Boba Fett
🔹 Mandalorian (Pen & Ink), Clone Wars Anakin, and Clone Wars Ahsoka were also added to cosmetic-based devices

📦 New Content:

🌾 Cozy and Creature Tools
🔸 Plumpton Architecture Kit
🔸 Plumpton Farm Gallery
🔸 Pet Props Gallery
🔸 Updated foliage
🔸 Plumpton Feature Example

☕ New Prefabs and Galleries
🔹 Latte Landing Prop Gallery
🔹 Latte Landing Bun Store
🔹 Latte Landing Big Shots Cafe
🔹 Latte Landing Krunchy Krickets
🔹 Latte Landing Espresso Experiments
🔹 Latte Landing floors, walls, and roofs
🔹 More Plumpton props, plants, farm, pet shop, tavern, farmhouse, and more

🔫 New Weapons and Items:
Weapons:
🔸 Vanguard Burst Rifle
🔸 The Voidblade’s Burst Rifle
🔸 Extending Focus Shotgun
🔸 Reacher Extending Shotgun
🔸 Chaos Exploder Rifle
🔸 Dark Voyager’s Chaos Rifle
🔸 Exotic Overdrive Pulse Rifle
🔸 Exotic Recon Bow
🔸 Exotic Leaping Lightning Gun
Items:
🔹 Seven Sliders
🔹 Limitless Seven Sliders
🔹 Brick-a-Bunker

🏃 Player Movement Device Update:
More movement settings are now available directly in the Player Movement device, giving creators better control over which players are affected.

Includes:
🔸 Jump Fatigue
🔸 Slide Kick
🔸 Shoulder Bashing
🔸 Wall Kick
🔸 Roll Landing
🔸 Glider Redeploy
🔸 Player Flight
🔸 Flight Speed
🔸 Infinite Wall Kicks
🔸 Sprint and boosted jump energy costs

🧪 Experimental and Beta Updates:
🔹 Skeletal Animation in Scene Graph is now experimental
🔹 Physics remains Beta
🔹 Mobile touch controls and gesture support are experimental
🔹 Skeletal Animation in Scene Graph cannot be used in published islands yet

🛠 Community Bug Fixes:
🔸 Fixed server degradation from adding and removing entities
🔸 Fixed some Physics Materials not being exposed
🔸 Fixed some session launch cook errors
🔸 Fixed Fortnite not closing properly after launching a session through UEFN
🔸 Fixed crashes after repeated entity spawning and despawning

🔧 More Fixes:
🔹 Fixed quickbar and phone tool freezes
🔹 Fixed thumbnail capture preview actor issues
🔹 Fixed building on Instanced Static Meshes
🔹 Fixed Live Edit visual update issues
🔹 Fixed several editor crashes and performance issues
🔹 Fixed inventory UI not showing Fortnite item info correctly
🔹 Fixed multiple physics, movement, swimming, gliding, and launch pad issues
🔹 Fixed Scene Graph prefab and Verse path issues

[GhostBear @GhostBearDev]

Early look at the new game I'm making for UEFN. Taking a small break from the genres I normally work on (horror and combat). This multiplayer experience will allow players to level up and grow their wolf, upgrade skills, and howl with their homies.
#UEFN #Fortnite #FortniteCreative

[facepunch @FcpnchStds]

From chaotic multiplayer brawlers to weird physics experiments, check out what the community has been cooking up in s&box's first month of release.
Keep the creations coming. What are you working on next?

Get s&box:
https://t.co/o4GSeCCYib

[GhostBear @GhostBearDev]

@blinky_quinn Hi, thanks for playing the game and I'm glad you liked it. Yes I plan to update it in the near future with more levels and creatures as well. If you have any other suggestions or feedback just let me know.

[TomNetwork @TomNetworkFN]

Hunt the Mutant is now Live!

https://t.co/65H7B5D3ZO

Any bugs please send me a DM

[GhostBear @GhostBearDev]

I'm not so good at making trailers, but here's the first official one for The Last Dracosaur | 8115-8429-6976 (Early Access) #UEFN #FortniteCreative #Fortnite

You're one of the last Dracosaurs, a special and ancient dinosaur/dragon hybrid. Survive against the untamed wilderness, level up your character, and unlock ancient magical skills.

🦕Up to 5 Players (for now)
🦖 Battle prehistoric creatures
⭐ Level up your character
💪 Upgrade your powers.
⚔️ PvP Wilderness Area

[RexStudiosOfficial @RexStudiosTeam]

Almost 2 years later… and this mechanic still feels awesome 🦖🔥

A transformation system we made in UEFN / Fortnite Creative where the hunter turns into a dinosaur during gameplay.👀

If you need custom UEFN Environments or full Fortnite Creative development our DMs are open for commissions 📩

#UEFN #FortniteCreative #Fortnite #Verse #GameDev #UE5 #Creative2 #EpicGames #Gaming #IndieDev

[GhostBear @GhostBearDev]

@GameDevMicah Thanks!🙂

[GhostBear @GhostBearDev]

Created a loading screen utilizing UMG and Verse. #UEFN #FortniteCreative #Fortnite

[GhostBear @GhostBearDev]

The Last Dracosaur is out now in early access on Fortnite / UEFN. Play as a Dracosaur, a dragon/dinosaur hybrid! Fight against prehistoric creatures, level up your character, and unlock ancient abilities and skills.
8115-8429-6976
#UEFN #FortniteCreative

[karen still says @andrews58753]

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[GhostBear @GhostBearDev]

Testing out multiplayer functionality and skills for the upcoming game. #UEFN #Fortnite @FNCreate

[GhostBear @GhostBearDev]

Updated the visuals for the upgrade altar (skill tree) for my new game. #UEFN

[Pinglyadya @pinglyadya]

Gabe Newell was right that interactivity is the definition of fun.

This realistically took a single dev maybe a day to code, but it's impressive because the game respects your interaction.

[Jake @jakeygrays]

Looking to join a UEFN studio full time.

I've spent 3+ years in UE and UEFN as a generalist focused on level design and environment work. I have three completed, unreleased games ready to transfer with 100+ hours already spent on them. Whether a studio wants to build on what I've made or start something new, I can do both. Previously, I was studio lead for Loserfruit and part of the founding of Bifrost Studios.

Before UEFN I spent a decade as a marketing director across multiple fashion magazines and worked with emerging brands on sales and growth. The connections I made translate directly into brand collaborations and activations inside UEFN, which is where I've been focused for the past five months.

I'm looking for the right team to build with and can break down my plans in DMs!

#UEFN #Fortnite

[Loco Dev @LocoDev7701]

Obstacle Avoidance System on UE5

#ue5 #devlog