MIC DROP
America's Got Talent, but for the Fortnite generation: Fortnite's first-ever real-time music competition.
OVERVIEW
Mic Drop was Fortnite's first-ever real-time music competition: players listened to community-submitted tracks in-game, voted weekly, and advanced top artists through a bracket-style tournament.
For me, it was a defining live-ops project that combined design, production, and analytics experimentation, including a custom vote-tracking method in Fortnite and a full weekly release pipeline from submissions to finals.
KEY CONTRIBUTIONS
Designed and ran Fortnite's first-ever real-time music competition
Built an in-game system for players to listen to and vote on submitted tracks
Engineered a novel method to track in-game votes using Fortnite's native analytics system
Designed the weekly bracket-style 1v1 tournament structure and progression
Coordinated music submission vetting for language, copyright, and eligibility
Drove IRL promotion and community engagement via Discord
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