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Voldi Way (born March 1, 1970), is an American technology entrepreneur, voice actor and known for being the founder of WayForward Technologies. He was also the co-founder of a software company in Santa Ana, California. He was also nicknamed "Tyrannical Overlord". He has done voice acting in some work including The Changeling and Boo.

Way has created a variety of games from licensed assets and original properties such as the first entry of their original video game series, Shantae which received widespread accolades.

Early life and education
Voldi Way was born on March 1, 1970 in Glenolden, Pennsylvania to his flower children's parents. In age twelve, Way began interested with video games after when his friend brought a Commodore 64. He was home educated until age fourteen, he was co-founded a software company in Santa Ana, California. He attended Orange Coast College until his early teens, when he decided he needed more exposure to people his own age. He enrolled himself at Costa Mesa High School, in tenth grade. Way was also a member of the U.S. Junior Olympics gymnastics team at age twelve. Way had brief experience as a child actor, appearing as Joseph Carmichael in the 1980 Canadian horror flim The Changeling.

WayForward
Way founded WayForward Technologies on March 1990 in Orange County, California, using the money he made by selling his parts in his previous company to his partners. In 1993, Way was working on Mickey's Ultimate Challenge for the Super Nintendo Entertainment System and the Sega Genesis. He quickly realized that art was way behind his abilities. During his video game career, he began creating CD-Rom games with an emphasis on educational entertainment. Way also team up with a couple of animation students at CalArts including Rob Buchanan and Matt Bozon. In June 2002, WayForward released their first internally developed game based on their own intellectual property Shantae which was created by Matt Bozon.

In June 2011, Way was set to speak at California's Westwood College for the 3th and 5th Annual Gathering of Video Game Legends. In August 2012, Way made a event for the 4th Annual Gathering of Video Game Legends at Westwood College in Anaheim, California. In 2019, Way and his company was created a new project called “River City Girls” with Arc System Works and said that “this is a really wonderful opportunity”.