#467 – Tim Sweeney: Fortnite, Unreal Engine, and the Future of Gaming

The following is a conversation with Tim Sweeney, a legendary video game programmer, founder, and CEO of Epic Games that created many incredible games and technologies, including the Unreal Engine and Fortnite, which both revolutionized the video game industry and the experience of playing and creating video games. And now a quick few second mention of each sponsor. Check them out in the description. It's the best way to support this podcast. We got Notion for AI fueled note taking, MasterClass for learning, Shopify for selling stuff, a g one for nutrition, and Element for electrolytes. Choose Wizen, my friends. I'm doing these ad reads all in one place, so hopefully that makes it easy for you to skip them if you don't wanna listen to them. But I do try to make them interesting and personal, often related to stuff I'm reading or thinking about. But if you do skip them, please still check out the sponsors, Sign up. Get their stuff. I enjoy it. Maybe you will too. Also, if you wanna get in touch with me for whatever reason, go to lexfreeman.com/contact. There, you can fill out a survey, which gives me feedback, or you can submit questions for an AMA. Or if you wanna work with us, you can apply. Or if you just wanna grab a coffee somewhere in the middle of nowhere as I travel the world. Alright. Now onto the full addres. Let's go. This episode is brought to you by Notion, a note taking and team collaboration tool. Obviously, we talk a lot with Dennis Sweeney in this episode about the incorporation of sort of AI like semi autonomous human in the loop type technology in the creative process, in computer graphics process, in lighting the scene, in lighting the human face, in bringing object in these worlds to life. I think it's true that a lot of that is ultimately about creating beautiful worlds, But I think the deeper thing in video games, in movies is storytelling. I really think it boils down back to text. I generate I don't know how many pages, probably 10 plus pages of notes a day. A lot. I'm a very bullet point nested bullet points guy. And a lot of that, I use, Notion for, and they incorporate AI really, really well into the note taking process, into the team collaboration process, project management process. Really nice. Try Notion AI for free when you go to notion.com/lex. That's all lowercase notion.com/lex to try the power of Notion AI today. This episode is also brought to you by a master class where you can watch over 200 classes from the best people in the world in their respective disciplines. I watch countless of their courses in full, and sometimes I do partial courses just if a topic really grabs me. And it's not always about the information conveyed. It's the implicit, the unstated, just the aura of mastery. Because these are not just teachers or …