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!
Transitioning From a Previous Career to Games
I never thought of myself as someone who was in the career of games until very, very recently. Some of the most satisfying work that I've been doing is on the actual like game game side of it. It's a little bit more that kind of thing than than game development day to day. Except for when we do get into those really fun heavily heavily game projects and they can be a real blast. That's our career advice show up at a music festival and harass your roommates boyfriend. One of those is bound to work.
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