Amanda D. Besemer
Willing to relocate to NYC · a.d.besemer@icloud.com
Portfolio — for Founders School

Games people love. Audiences that convert. AI in every layer.

Twenty years turning real rooms into things people watch, play, and share — then handing the engine to everyone else. I build the top of the funnel and the product at the end of it.

2 exits Front page, New York Times ~1B impressions, one event AI-native, daily

The two things nobody puts together: games real people love, and real businesses. This role needs both. I've shipped both.

01Reach that converts

Audiences & earned media

Attention that turns into trust, coverage, and action — the exact scoreboard this role runs on.

Event film

Kesha × Susan G. Komen × Pathway Genomics

My idea, my production — start to finish, from lighting to media invites. A live headline performance built to launch the first direct-to-consumer BRCA1/2 test and make a cause impossible to ignore.

$250K raised~1B impressionsRed carpet
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Brand promo

Santiago — brand promo (Hearts + Hara)

A brand film built around an AI-equipped robot dog working a warehouse floor — turning a hard technology story into something people actually want to watch.

Brand film
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Brand film

SpaceVibes — promo film

A brand film for my current deep-tech company — concept, story, and production.

Brand film
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Earned media

Lumenplay — front page of the NYT

Positioned a premium consumer-tech product into the front page of the New York Times technology section, plus Apple Retail — with sell-through following the coverage. Exit to S4 Lights.

NYT front pageApple Retail
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Earned media

Pathway Genomics — the Joel Stein feature

Turned consumer genomics into a story a national columnist wanted to tell — translating hard science into something people actually read and shared.

National feature
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02Play people return to

Games & worlds

Shipped, playable, and loved — including live multiplayer on a tiny team, iterated on direct player feedback.

Live server

DiamondFire — live multiplayer (Minecraft)

Games I design, build, and run with my two sons — up to 40 players at once on DiamondFire's in-game block-coding platform. The tightest feedback loop I've worked in: watch, fix, ship, watch again.

40 live playersBuilt with my sons
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Prototype

GameVibes — sandbox demo

A sandbox premise built on emergent systems and player experimentation: core loop, reward design, and production docs. Built AI-first.

Unique distribution
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Prototype

Tribes — behavioral social demo

Social connections to people you'll actually get along with — no profiles to fill out. An AI-driven platform that matches on behavior, not bios.

Designed with students
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World / experience

The Unicorn Experience

A family-entertainment world built from a blank page for an under-18 audience — characters, scripts, progression, a team of 40. Five-star rated and sold out week after week on pure word of mouth.

Category creationSold out on word of mouth
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Product demo

SpaceVibes — the app

A shipped spatial-computing app (patent-pending 8K+ 360° streaming) with a 1,000+ creator library built from zero.

Shipped1,000+ videos

Bubblegum Machine Mash-Up Madness

Concept-to-prototype sandbox with the numbers behind it — core loop, reward systems, and a KPI framework for how I'd measure fun and retention. Happy to walk through it.

Sandbox designKPI framework
03AI in every layer — last 30 days

Built with AI

You asked to see how I use AI. Here's live proof — built, shipped, and walkable step by step.

Built with AI

Concept to published in 24 minutes

A working app I designed and shipped with AI end to end — idea, build, deploy. This is my everyday motion, and I'm happy to walk through exactly how it was made.

24 minutesLive
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This page was built with AI — part of how I work every single day. Research, scripting, edit planning, repurposing, and code, with AI in every layer.

I'll make Founders School the most-watched school in the world.

Email me Willing to relocate to NYC