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 Numbers Matter
"I've gotten better at it, but I've been there," he says. "When you're watching some animation happen and you're like adjusting easing, easing functions." It reminds him of a funny story: He was on tour with this band and one of the horn players would be at the mic. The engineer was just sitting there doing nothing at the console for an hour before they played.
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