Fortnite has played host to concerts by Marshmello, Travis Scott, and Ariana Grande. It’s featured cameos from a variety of popular comics, television, and movie franchises. But now the game will lend its platform to someone with a bit more gravitas: Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
Epic Games has partnered with Time on a new “interactive experience” that “immerses players in the entirety of Dr. King’s monumental ‘I Have A Dream’ speech and the history surrounding it” and rewards them with a D.C. 63 spray that can be used to paint the game’s environments.
Here’s the good news: The event takes place in the Creative game mode that, presumably, won’t allow players to use Fortnite’s signature weapons during the historic speech. That should make it more difficult for the experience to be twisted into something a bit less-than-celebratory.
“March Through Time teleports players to D.C. 63, a reimagined Washington, DC,” Epic Games said. “Built by ChaseJackman, GQuanoe, XWDFr, and YU7A, travel to the Lincoln Memorial and United States National Mall, where Dr. King gave his iconic 17-minute speech for Civil Rights” on Aug. 28, 1963.
It’s still an interactive experience, though, and Epic Games says it features “collaborative mini-game quests you complete with others” that “progress players through the experience and bring to life important themes of Dr. King’s speech: we move forward when we work together.”
More information about March Through Time is available on the Time website.
