Epic Games Loses Level Design Legend Sjoerd de Jong After 12 Years As Unreal Engine 6 Embraces AI

Epic Games Loses Level Design Legend Sjoerd de Jong After 12 Years As Unreal Engine 6 Embraces AI

Sjoerd de Jong standing in front of a train beside the Unreal Engine 6 logo on a dark background.

Epic Games provided some additional information on Unreal Engine 6 as Unreal Engine 5.8 is set to be the final major update to the current generation engine. The integration with UEFN, the and AI models like Claude and Gemini, alongside the eventual deprecation of the Blueprints visual scripting system and Actors framework, is making more than a few fearful that AI will completely take over game development, and Epic’s reassurances that this won’t happen are not enough to calm these fears, as the company has lost veteran and legendary level design guru Sjoerd “Hourences” de Jong just as the new […]

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