A.J. Laughlin, Logan Palmer and, Isaac Schachleiter Staff Writers

150 million. That’s the number of people who launched Fortnite in 2017. Many of these people also played on mobile, released March 11.  People rushed to get invite codes from their friends. EPIC games selected a few gamers that signed up to give the game. Each person would get three invite codes that they could give to their friends who could get the game. Some people even paid to get invite codes from their friends. EPIC did this because there would be too much stress on the game. After Fortnite’s release on mobile, other console games started releasing their own mobile games.

Seventh-grader Caden Davis said his friends kept bothering him to get a coveted invite code.

“I was actually the first one to get it when it came out because of the invite codes,” Davis said. “I signed up right away. I gave them out like right away because they were always bugging me about it.”

Davis said that it will be more fun because you can play with your friends on different consoles… Kids will be able to crossplay with kids that they previously couldn’t play with.

“It will help because it’s easier to play with people if they don’t have the same console or any other console,” Davis said. “I would support more console games coming to mobile.”
Many people have consoles and still use them regularly, but when phones started to come into the picture, they changed gaming forever. The phone allowed people to play games on the go. This can provide the gaming on the go that they need.

Seventh Grader Ogden Nijakowski says that mobile games will help to strengthen relationships with friends. He also says that this will let kids be able to play at different times.

“ I actually kind of like it because you can play a more variety of games.” Ogden said, “Yes it will help strengthen relationships if it’s a multiplayer game. I would support more games coming to mobile.”

Seventh-grade science teacher Rachel King said mobile games cause a major distraction. Because kids can play with their other friends which would make kids want to play that much more during school.

“I’m finding that they’re very distracting,” King said. “Students are getting more addicted to them they’re like ‘oh hey I’m going to go sneak and play them’ while they’re doing their class work. They are not finding the balance of what they are going to do in their free time instead of what they are going to do in the classroom.”

King also said that these games aren’t just a distraction for kids to play, but a distraction because the kids talk about them all of the time.

“There are all kinds of games that people play,” King said. “I’ve seen everything, all different kinds of stuff, and it’s not even just like playing it, they’re just talking about it. I would support more console games coming to mobile with maybe some restrictions.”