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 Continuous Conversation in Game Design
"Our best work happens when there's more of a conversation that's happening continuously," he says. "When programmers are just executing and trying to get it done as quickly as possible, well, then you kind of need to have someone else to raise the issues because the issues will just go on through" He adds: "I think one thing that requires is that sense of being familiar with other disciplines is good, but it's dangerous."
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