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!
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The Creative Side of Technology
I moved from Edmonton to Vancouver with my partner Alyssa. My first thing was I took a web development contract for an acquaintance that I've met at a music festivalA few years before that, and that was doing website for a company called anemone hug interactive. And it's just like dealing with the phaser game engine, which is one that we use a lot of in our work now. That was my first time touching phaser. It went through like several dozen different names and disappeared promptly after I finished my work on it. So, so yeah, as my, my first serious game project and lasted about four weeks - not all that long.
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