2025 Speakers
Amanda Farough, Chief Multiclasser (COO), F-Squared
Amanda (Manda) Farough is a veteran writer across multiple disciplines with experience spanning nearly fifteen years, specializing in rich worldbuilding and characters that contain multitudes. She delights in the intersection between the bizarre and the beautiful. Her genre specialties are horror, fantasy, science fiction, and action. As a "multiclasser", Manda has a career that has spanned an array of industries in a variety of roles. She's been an entrepreneur and small business owner (off and on since 2004), a programmer and web developer, a member of the games media (2009-2020), a consultant (since 2020), indie game developer business and narrative mentor (Gameheads, Flemish AV Fund), an author (Digital Playgrounds book series), a producer (Strange Scaffold, HakJak Studios - half a dozen shipped games at this point), a narrative designer and writer (three unannounced games, working since 2022), and even a business analyst (Virtual Economy podcast since 2020). She's a passionate, easily hyped indie game developer these days, working with a number of teams in a variety of capacities. When she's not making cool stuff with cool people in the game industry, she's spending time with kids, partners, and dogs.