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Khalil Abdullah Highlight
There’s strength in representation. There’s strength in seeing someone as a role model.
About Khalil
- Growing up, I always had a passion for video games and knew that I wanted to get into game design.
- I went to the University of Massachusetts Amherst, and majored in computer science, which was the closest major to game design that the college offered.
- During my fourth year of college, I finally got an assignment to design a flash game—I put a lot of effort and passion into the assignment and it ended up being the inspiration for our current game!
- After graduating, I went into tech sales and performed software demonstrations for potential clients.
- While working, my brother and I kept up with our passion for video game design on the side and kept building off of the game I had created in college.
- We maintained our nine-to-five jobs for about 10 years while creating our video game until we felt we were able to leave and transition to game design full time.
- I co-founded Decoy Games with my brother and am now a full-time indie game developer.
