Forget Animal Crossing, Joe Biden has a Fortnite island for gamer votes Epic GamesForget terraforming in Animal Crossing to chase the gamer vote \u2014 Joe Biden and his 2020 election campaign has gone one bigger, building a massive Fortnite island to \u201cmobilize\u201d as many players as they can ahead of the US election. Two weeks ago, Joe Biden rolled into Animal Crossing. You could visit his \u201cBiden HQ\u201d island, hang out with his player avatar, and register to vote for the upcoming 2020 election. Now, Animal Crossing is so last month, and Biden has traded terraforming and turnips for \u2018crankin\u2019 90s\u2019 \u2014 the presidential candidate\u2019s campaign has constructed a massive, Joe Biden-themed Fortnite island to \u201cmobilize gamers\u201d to vote. The custom Fortnite map, called \u201cBuild Back Better with Biden,\u201d lets players complete a solo adventure \u2014 around 20 or 30 minutes long \u2014 to promote Biden and Kamala Harris\u2019 economic plans. The island itself has been built in Reboot City. The aim, Biden\u2019s campaign said, is to \u201cengage players\u201d ahead of the 2020 election. The \u201cBuild Back Better with Biden\u201d island is chock full of stuff to do. There\u2019s the half-hour adventure, the \u201cNo Malarkey Station\u201d to visit, six mini-games to complete \u2014 focused around cleaning up the island \u2014 and even a virtual polling booth. Fortnite fans can also install high-speed broadband in Reboot City, \u201cbuild a new research facility at the Historically Black College,\u201d and collect Kamala Harris\u2019 \u201ckicks.\u201d All six Joe Biden\/Kamala Harris Fortnite challenges Help Build a New Research Facility at Champ\u2019s Construction site: \u201cBuild a new research facility at the local historically Black college. Build to the top, and stay inside the blueprints.\u201d – Install 3 Scranton Towers: \u201cHelp install these new 5G Broadband towers to ensure every American has access to broadband.\u201d – Restore The Aviator River: \u201cRace to collect industrial waste and restore the river. This challenge highlights Biden\u2019s plan to mobilize the next generation of conservation and resilience workers through a Civilian Climate Corps.\u201d – Visit Joe\u2019s Famous Ice Cream Shop: \u201cSlide down the colors (flavors) to get as much ice cream as you can.\u201d – Help make Major\u2019s Auto Factory Run Clean: \u201cThey modified the line to produce electric cars and are now retrofitting the offices before reopening. Install new high-efficiency AC units and unwrap the solar panels on the roof.\u201d – Complete Kamala\u2019s Sneaker Run: \u201cFind all 10 of Kamala\u2019s sneakers.\u201d – \u201cWith voting underway and days until Election Day, we are continuing to meet people everywhere they are online and offline with innovative and thoughtful activations,\u201d Christian Tom from the Biden\/Harris campaign told Mashable. \u201cWe designed the \u2018Build Back Better\u2019 Fortnite map to do just that \u2014 engaging players in a substantive, approachable, and fun way to reach and mobilize voters.\u201d The code to access Biden\u2019s \u2018Build Back Better\u2019 map is 0215-4511-1823. Biden\u2019s Fortnite island is far from the first time games have been sucked into the election too; Animal Crossing obviously had a spin last month, and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez took to Among Us in October to get more gamers to vote as well. AOC\u2019s debut stream, alongside Twitch superstars like Pokimane, Hasan, and DrLupo, set new records for how popular it was. Nearly 440k watched her first broadcast live, and another 5.4 million checked out the Oct. 20 VOD. It\u2019s pretty clear at this point that gaming has finally become political battlegrounds heading into the future. The question is, what game gets sucked in next?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Forget Animal Crossing, Joe Biden has a Fortnite island for gamer votes Epic GamesForget terraforming in Animal Crossing to chase the gamer vote \u2014 Joe Biden and his 2020 election campaign has gone one bigger, building a massive Fortnite island to \u201cmobilize\u201d as many players as they can ahead of the US election. Two weeks […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-72470","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72470","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=72470"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72470\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72470"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72470"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72470"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}