Stephanie has been passionate about programming since her early school years but it really flourished when she picked up a book on programming games in highschool. From there she went to study programming and multimedia at Swinburne University winning multiple dean's list awards and being invited to become a member of the Golden Key.

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At university she was headhunted to join Opaque after successfully completing an IBL year working for the company. She has worked at Opaque and Opaque's child company AIVA ever since.

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She has always been passionate about games, and she progressed from running informal game sessions during the lunch times at highschool to running a boardgame and geek club at university.

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She has always dabbled with game ideas in her own time, and for the last 3 years has been working on a simulation sandbox game in her own time called Arkhaven.