Epic Games’ next big plan for the metaverse is to unify all of its disparate asset markets under one brand, fabulous. The new store will include assets from the Unreal Engine Marketplace, Quixel Bridge, Artstation Marketplace, and Sketchfab, and Epic will give creators 88 percent of profits in the store, as it does with the Epic Games Store.
“In the old days, every game developer created all the content for their product from scratch. Increasingly, content marketplaces like the Unreal Engine Marketplace and Unity’s Asset Store have provided huge libraries of content that game developers can license from independent content creators and use in their games,” Epic said. in a blog post. “We believe this trend will grow significantly as experience creators in Fortnite, Roblox, Minecraft, and other 3D worlds view these marketplaces as sources of metaverse content, and as players increasingly build and customize their own 3D spaces in line”.
In Fab, you’ll be able to get a host of digital assets, including “3D models, materials, sound, VFX, digital humans, and more,” Epic says. And the company is positioning it as an open marketplace that will support “all engines, all metaverse-inspired games that support imported content, and the most popular digital content creation packages.” In theory, that means you don’t need to be an Unreal Engine developer to get store value.
