Supergiant Games senior programmer Chris Jurney has left the
Bastion and
Transistor studio to work at Oculus VR, he
revealed in a Tweet. Jurney previously worked at Double Fine, Kaos Studios, and Relic Entertainment.
"I'll be on a small team doing prototypes, which is my favorite type of work. I'm really looking forward to getting my hands dirty in virtual space," Jurney
told Polygon.
He's the latest in a string of hires that have followed the company's
acquisition by Facebook in March. On the game development side, just last week Naughty Dog co-founder Jason Rubin
joined the company as its head of worldwide studios, joining
Halo franchise art director
Kenneth Scott.
The company also picked up Valve VR R&D alums
Atman Binstock,
Aaron Nicholls, and
Michael Abrash, Google Glass lead engineer
Adrian Wong, as well as building a publishing team with former
Valve and
EA talent.
