Sjoerd De Jong
CPO and co-founder of immens, known as Hourences. 27 years working on Unreal Engine and twelve at epic-games, first as Unreal Engine evangelist and later as Senior Director for Developer Experience, where he founded the Epic Developer Community platform the company puts at "200,000+ developers a month." Before that, more than a decade across level design, tech art, game design and art direction at over ten studios including guerrilla-games and Starbreeze, plus his own indie studio Teotl Studios, which shipped three titles.
His departure from Epic is the one part of immens that a third party has written about: a 27 July 2026 This Week In Videogames piece framed as Epic's former Unreal evangelist building his own engine. Discovered while ingesting immens; the rest of the biography is the company's own.
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- founder of immens
- formerly of epic-games and guerrilla-games