Pantelis Kassotis (b. 1994)
Alias:
Pantelis "Porkotyler" Kassotis
Pantelis Kassotis
Porkz
Birthplace:
Athens, Greece
Born:
February 28, 1994
Pantelis Kassotis, best known by his gaming alias @Porkotyler, is a Greek/Canadian video game developer and animator. He is one of the lead game designers behind Fortnite (2017) , LEGO Fortnite (2023) , and Rocket Racing (2023) , as well as the creator and Battlemaster of the Fortnite: Taco Bowl LVIII Tournament (2024) . He is also the creator of the Captain Dodger (2023) game series and the studio head of Tethorax Softworks. Born in Athens, Greece he graduated from Lyceum of Agios Stefanos and then attended the University of the Aegean in the island of Chios to study business administration. Back in his high school years he dreamed of becoming a professional artist, and took afternoon classes to prepare for the Athens School of Fine Arts, but eventually went to business school for a more secure future. As a way to express his creative side he started drawing cartoon sketches and eventually created his first comic book "Eric & Erica" which he presented at the Comicdom Con Athens of 2014. After publishing two more comic books as a sketch artist, he transitioned into animation by creating the comedy animation web-series Just Funny (2017-) for Funny Or Die, alongside his childhood friend Christos Poulos-Renesis . After Funny Or Die was absorbed by Vox Media in 2018, he took a break from animation and began learning how to code. This new melding of animation and coding skills led him down the path of game development and VFX. His first commercial project in video games was Gluttony (2021) , which he coded while completing his mandatory military service in the Hellenic Army. On December 13th, 2023 and after publishing twelve more indie titles, he joined Epic Games and began working on his first AAA projects. He is mostly known for his third-person shooter (TPS) games and is considered an auteur of the genre, earning several accolades from them, on an international level. When he doesn't build video games, he hosts Prime Video's The Porkotyler Show (2023-) , and composes electro house music which he uses for the games he's working on. According to music aggregator RouteNote, his soundtracks have been streamed more than 5 million times. His TV show is a comedy animation variety series that serves as an outlet for him to publish funny animations and interviews with people from all over the entertainment industry. He also gives glimpses of Fortnite's development process and gives advice to new game developers.