Verse Language Reference

These pages describe the Verse programming language and its syntax. Spend time getting familiar with the language, then use these pages as reference.

If this is your first time using Verse, or if you're learning programming for the first time, make sure to check out Programming with Verse to help you get started. You'll also find a useful onboarding guide.

What Is Verse?

Verse is a programming language developed by Epic Games that you can use to create your own gameplay in Unreal Editor for Fortnite, including customizing your devices for Fortnite Creative.

Verse’s primary design goals:

• Simple enough to learn as a first-time programmer.
• General enough for writing any kind of code and data.
• Productive in the context of building, iterating, and shipping a project in a team setting, and integrating code and content.
• Statically verified to catch as many categories of runtime problems as possible at compile time.
• Performant for writing real-time, open-world, multiplayer games.
• Complete so that every feature of the language supports programmer abstraction over that feature.
• Timeless — built for the needs of today, and for foreseeable future needs, without being rooted in the past artifacts of other languages.