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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, which strives to promote mental health.

Code grew up outside Vancouver, British Columbia. She graduated from the University of British Columbia with a Bachelor of Science in Computer Science in 2001.

Code worked for many years at Ubisoft Montreal as the lead AI programmer, managing programming teams on games such as Assassin's Creed II. She was often the only woman on a team. Her award-winning downloadable faerie game Child of Light featured a female protagonist and a 25 percent female developer team.

From 2016 to 2018, Code spent time traveling across the globe, where she consulted game studios, spoke at tech events, and discussed interactive media with those in the field. An ad column ran at GamesIndustry.biz at this time, and Code mentored students at the Filmakademie Baden-Wurrtemberg in interactive media.^[1]

She and her co-founder, Eve Thomas, now run a Toronto based game studio called Tru Luv, which creates experimental games focused on care and characters, and was the first startup in Canada to attend the Apple Entrepreneur Camp in 2020.^[2] In #SelfCare, a virtual bedroom is filled with calming tasks, such as reading a book, tending to a plant or sorting laundry by colour. The app doesn't use aggressive alerts or notifications, which allows the user to complete tasks in their own time.^[3] She said "the most valuable thing a game can do for me: make me forget why I’m angry." #SelfCare was named in Apple’s Best of 2018 Trends of the Year.

The model used and created by Code, titled ❦ BENEFICENCE ❦, was used alongside the ✿ TERRA ✿ engine to develop these apps with the intention of creating compassionate technology that promotes growth in it's users. ^[4]

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