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For the last year, Fortnite creator Andre “Typical Gamer” Rebelo has worked behind the scenes diligently for a different kind of gaming achievement. Instead of focusing solely on battle royale records or content, Rebelo has made a name for himself in Unreal Editor for Fortnite (UEFN). In addition to his nearly 24 million followers and 105 million monthly views, Rebelo and his team of 20 developers are the sixth most popular UEFN creators.
Formerly exiting stealth mode, Typical Gamer is launching his own UEFN studio Jogo Games and serving as CEO. The name comes from the word for play in Portugese — Rebelo’s native language.
Together with COO Chad Mustard and CTO Mark Price, the team plans to incubate top talent and push the limits of UEFN. And Rebelo is making a massive bet with his own money to make it happen.
“Jogo is developing the next age of Fortnite Games. Today, a lot of Fortnite maps are combat based, but Epic wants it to be a place where all kinds of games can live and find an audience. We’re going to be ushering these new genres in and we’re spending big bucks to make that happen. We’re making a $2 million bet so we can recruit triple-A talent,” Rebelo told GamesBeat in an interview.
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Road to Jogo Games
Jogo Games leadership met years ago through Fortnite. One reason why the team gelled so well was that Rebelo, Mustard and Price all have experience making content and developing games.
Mustard is also content creator with 900,000-plus subscribers specializing in Fortnite Creative. He also happens to be the brother of former Epic Games Chief Creative Officer, Donald Mustard.
Price has worked in the gaming industry since 2009 including a stint at Activision. He exited a developer coaching start up in April 2022 and began making tutorials for UEFN’s programming language Verse as soon as it became available.
Meanwhile, Rebelo learned PHP when he was 12 to make mods for games (and earn a bit of money on the side).
When UEFN was announced, the team behind Jogo were off to the races. Speaking a common language, the team banded together with a grand vision to build “the Pixar of UGC.”
Typical Gamer and Jogo Games have published seven UEFN maps so far.
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For the last year, Fortnite creator Andre “Typical Gamer” Rebelo has worked behind the scenes diligently for a different kind of gaming achievement. Instead of focusing solely on battle royale records or content, Rebelo has made a name for himself in Unreal Editor for Fortnite (UEFN). In addition to his nearly 24 million followers and 105 million monthly views, Rebelo and his team of 20 developers are the sixth most popular UEFN creators.
Formerly exiting stealth mode, Typical Gamer is launching his own UEFN studio Jogo Games and serving as CEO. The name comes from the word for play in Portugese — Rebelo’s native language.
Together with COO Chad Mustard and CTO Mark Price, the team plans to incubate top talent and push the limits of UEFN. And Rebelo is making a massive bet with his own money to make it happen.
“Jogo is developing the next age of Fortnite Games. Today, a lot of Fortnite maps are combat based, but Epic wants it to be a place where all kinds of games can live and find an audience. We’re going to be ushering these new genres in and we’re spending big bucks to make that happen. We’re making a $2 million bet so we can recruit triple-A talent,” Rebelo told GamesBeat in an interview.
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Road to Jogo Games
Jogo Games leadership met years ago through Fortnite. One reason why the team gelled so well was that Rebelo, Mustard and Price all have experience making content and developing games.
Mustard is also content creator with 900,000-plus subscribers specializing in Fortnite Creative. He also happens to be the brother of former Epic Games Chief Creative Officer, Donald Mustard.
Price has worked in the gaming industry since 2009 including a stint at Activision. He exited a developer coaching start up in April 2022 and began making tutorials for UEFN’s programming language Verse as soon as it became available.
Meanwhile, Rebelo learned PHP when he was 12 to make mods for games (and earn a bit of money on the side).
When UEFN was announced, the team behind Jogo were off to the races. Speaking a common language, the team banded together with a grand vision to build “the Pixar of UGC.”
Typical Gamer and Jogo Games have published seven UEFN maps so far.
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