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)
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The Importance of Learning Quickly on the Fly
John: I knew that I was making a commitment to pursuing game development as a career. After I think maybe there was a period in time where after I left the forensics lab, the primary, the contracts I was getting were primarily converting flash games to just, you know, JavaScript. And so, and so I committed to making a portfolio or like something like it show to clients because the other problem was it's like a lot of the work I was doing. I just like wasn't allowed to show anybody anything. For my portfolio, myfolio piece was building a multiplayer, a multiplayer game for iPhone. John: Being able to learn stuff quickly on the fly is an important part of
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