David Wyand grew up in Toronto, Canada, and graduated in Chemical Engineering from the University of Toronto in 1994. Following graduation, he went to run the network management system at a major telecommunications company; did freelance 2D compositing and 3D animation work for the Toronto entertainment industry; and started his own consulting firm to set up network management systems at various telecommunications and power companies in Canada and the U.S. He then left that behind to work in the video game industry.
Starting with the successful 2005 launch of a tool for game artists to visualize their work in real time, he moved on to game engine development. In 2006, he joined GarageGames as a full-time contractor and has been working with them ever since. During this time he has had his hands in nearly every game engine the company has released. Today he is the Head of Torque 3D Development at GarageGames.
In 2009 he started Gnometech Inc. (http://www.gnometech.com) to begin developing his own commercial games. In 2010 he released Greenwood Faire, a web-based 3D world in a medieval setting. Since then he has created other online 3D worlds under the Zworldo.com banner, and is looking to the future of virtual reality and unique input devices.
