Sjoerd De Jong, an Unreal Engine expert from its early days who joined Epic Games full-time in 2014—first as "lead evangelist" and most recently as the senior director of an unannounced project—has left the company, he revealed last week in a LinkedIn post.
"After 27 years of Unreal Engine, and 12 years at Epic Games and Unreal Engine I have decided to move on. Last week was my last week at Epic," De Jong wrote. "This has been an awesome ride that has been truly life changing in so many ways. I didn't have an easy childhood or youth and things weren't going anywhere, but all of that changed entirely when I discovered Unreal Engine."
De Jong's history with Unreal goes back to when he was 15 years old, modding the original 1998 FPS. He was such a prominent map creator he was directly approached by Epic to work on Unreal Tournament 2004, where he designed levels like DM-Rankin and ONS-Torlan, the former of which was the most-played UT2004 map of a...
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