Jamaal was a professional musician (saxophone), before transitioning into game development, through learning programming in a Master's program for forensic computing. Jamaal resides outside of San Diego, CA.
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Wandering into Game Development (with Jamaal Sawyer-Dymski and Greg Borreson)
Nice Games Club - a gamedev podcast!
The Importance of Career Shifts
Jamal: I switched careers from, with the music degree and for. period of time, like seven or eight years, I was a professional musician. Jamal got into game development because my roommate's boyfriend was working on an educational video game for the government. He asked me in this interview to take a course at this thing here that I didn't actually know how to do. And so he ended up being hired as a JavaScript program developer by his friend who had been watching him build these games.
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