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!
How I Slid Into the Game Development Track
Greg got into games through a variety of different IT positions, mostly at the University of Alberta in Edmonton in Canada. He started looking for programming jobs and as happens when all that's on your resume is educational web games. You find it very easy to slip into another educational web game job and then from there to the next one there to thenext one so that's kind of how I slipped into the game development track.
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