Brie Code

Brie Code is an AI video game programmer, working on Assassin's Creed, Child of Light, and #SelfCare. She runs Tru Luv, a game studio which creates experimental games focused on care and characters.

Early life

Brie grew up in the countryside outside Vancouver, British Columbia.[1] She graduated from the University of British Columbia with a Bachelor of Science in Computer Science[2] in 2001.[3]

Career

Brie worked for many years at Ubisoft Montreal, managing programming teams on games such as Assassin's Creed II. She was often the only woman on a team.[4] She organized her co-workers to design a diversity initiative. Her award-winning downloadable faerie game Child of Light featured a female protagonist and a 25 percent female developer team.[5]

She now runs a game studio called Tru Luv which creates experimental games focused on care and characters. In #SelfCare, a virtual bedroom is filled with calming tasks, such as reading a book, tending to a plant or sorting laundry by colour. She said "the most valuable thing a game can do for me: make me forget why I’m angry."[6][7] #SelfCare was named in Apple’s Best of 2018 Trends of the Year.[8]

References
  1. "A Future I Would Want to Live In". Brie Code. Retrieved 2022-02-20.
  2. Herrold, Charlotte (2018-09-24). "Brie Code, Video Game Designer". Flare.
  3. "Designing video games for people who don't like games". science.ubc.ca. 2018-04-25. Retrieved 2022-02-20.
  4. "DeanBeat: A big brain dump on video games in Montreal". VentureBeat. 2015-11-27. Retrieved 2022-02-20.
  5. "How Women Will Save Gaming". HuffPost. 2015-12-06. Retrieved 2022-02-20.
  6. "'I don't like the stress of dying': the game for people who don't want to fight". the Guardian. 2018-06-28. Retrieved 2022-02-20.
  7. Spicer, Kate. "How gaming became a form of meditation". www.bbc.com. Retrieved 2022-02-20.
  8. "App Trend of the Year: Self-Care : App Store Story". 2019-08-31. Archived from the original on 31 August 2019. Retrieved 2022-02-20.
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