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.
Wandering into Game Development (with Jamaal Sawyer-Dymski and Greg Borreson)
Nice Games Club - a gamedev podcast!
How I Got Started in Game Development
In the early 2000s I was doing some, some mods and levels for bungee's marathon and myth series of games. Then after that I went into a much shorter stint working on a unity game where I actually got fired from the project or days into it. And then after that I started working on some contracts for their sort of pseudo game educational courseware for kids through one of TGA's longtime clients called ever fi. And I got into a bunch of those and then started working on broader projects for TGA including a few games that wound up in the training arcade. Just moved over to work for them directly full time, a few years later.
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