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After 12 years at Epic Games, chief 'Unreal Evangelist' Sjoerd De Jong has departed to build his own game engine. Along with other tech veterans, he's creating the 'Immens Engine' as a clean, modern alternative to what he calls the 'stagnation' of Unreal and Unity.
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00:00Epic Games lost its chief Unreal evangelist in June.
00:03Geor de Jong left the company after 12 years as a senior director,
00:08declaring the games industry was at a pivotal point.
00:11Now, it turns out de Jong is taking on that pivotal point by building his own game engine.
00:17It's called the Amends Engine, and he's building it with a small team of other tech whizzies
00:22that includes former Epic technical director Arian Brousset.
00:27Is he trying to take on Unreal? Absolutely.
00:30Amends is meant to be an alternative to the ubiquitous Unreal and Unity engines,
00:35which de Jong says have caused stagnation.
00:39Unreal and Unity get bigger and bigger, and there's more and more baggage that builds over time, de Jong says.
00:45So you wonder if there's got to be something here where we can have a clean, modern engine built from
00:51the ground up.
00:52I guess Amends already has its evangelist.
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