Tim Sweeney (game developer)

Tim Sweeney (born 1970 ) is a computer game programmer, founder and president of Epic Games, previously known as Epic MegaGames. Epic increased with Sweeney's ZZT Adventure in the games industry that the first game of the company. As Sweeney said in an interview that the success of ZZT nudged the development of a number of other Epic games such as Jill of the Jungle.

Sweeney was known for his work on the Unreal Engine, the game engine, which has also been used in the Unreal series games and will.

By his own admission Sweeney does not have such a large amount of work as in previous projects more as he takes on the role of technical director at the in development Unreal Engine 3. He cares about the development of the engine and other projects, the contact with the hardware manufacturers and the research and development of future technologies.