David Joiner

Career as programmer Joiner learned assembler, Fortran, and COBOL programming between 1976 and 1980 at the Strategic Air Command headquarters in Omaha, Nebraska. In his spare time, he coded a space war game on terminals. At the location, he also became familiar with coding on the PET and Apple II. After leaving the military, he joined Datasoft as a programmer programmer. He then became part of IntelliCreations, and then Mindscape, then began working on the Amiga 1000 and with MicroIllusions, which started out from a computer store in San Fernando Valley.

Joiner then began working on The Faery Tale Adventure, which took him seven months. MicroIllusions published it in 1986. Joiner appeared on television of the Computer Chronicles to demonstrate Music-X. He later published under Sylvan Technical Arts. He worked a year on The Sims 2, then left EA. More recently, he worked on the user interface of Google+.