Rose-Brie Code is an AI video game programmer, working on ''

Assassin's Creed ''Assassin's Creed'' is a historical fiction, historical action-adventure video game series and media franchise published by Ubisoft and developed mainly by its studio Ubisoft Montreal using the game engine Anvil (game engine), Anvil and its m ...

'', ''

Child of Light ''Child of Light'' is a platforming role-playing video game developed by Ubisoft Montreal and published by Ubisoft for Windows, PlayStation 3, PlayStation 4, Wii U, Xbox 360 and Xbox One in April 2014, and was released on PlayStation Vita in Jul ...

'', and ''#SelfCare''. She ran TRU LUV, a game studio which created experimental games focused on care and characters, which strove to promote mental health.

Early life

Code grew up outside

Vancouver Vancouver is a major city in Western Canada, located in the Lower Mainland region of British Columbia. As the List of cities in British Columbia, most populous city in the province, the 2021 Canadian census recorded 662,248 people in the cit ...

British Columbia British Columbia is the westernmost Provinces and territories of Canada, province of Canada. Situated in the Pacific Northwest between the Pacific Ocean and the Rocky Mountains, the province has a diverse geography, with rugged landscapes that ...

. She graduated from the

University of British Columbia The University of British Columbia (UBC) is a Public university, public research university with campuses near University of British Columbia Vancouver, Vancouver and University of British Columbia Okanagan, Kelowna, in British Columbia, Canada ...

with a Bachelor of Science in Computer Science in 2001.

Career

Code worked for many years at

Ubisoft Montreal Ubisoft Divertissements Inc., doing business as Ubisoft Montreal, is a Canadian video game developer and a studio of Ubisoft based in Montreal. The studio was founded in April 1997 as part of Ubisoft's growth into worldwide markets, with subs ...

as the lead AI programmer, managing programming teams on games such as ''

Assassin's Creed II ''Assassin's Creed II'' is a 2009 action-adventure game developed by Ubisoft Montreal and published by Ubisoft. It is the second major installment in the Assassin's Creed, ''Assassin's Creed'' series, and the sequel to 2007's ''Assassin's Creed ...

''. She was often the only woman on a team. Her award-winning downloadable faerie game where she was the lead programmer, ''

'' featured a female protagonist and a 25 percent female developer team. She also co-founded Ubisoft Montreal's DEI Initiative. And was the Team Lead AI on Assassin's Creed Brotherhood and Assassin's Creed II. 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

Film Academy Baden-Württemberg The Filmakademie Baden-Wuerttemberg (German: ''Filmakademie Baden-Württemberg'') was founded in 1991 as a publicly funded film school in Ludwigsburg, Baden-Württemberg, Germany. The Filmakademie is one of the most internationally renowned film ...

in interactive media. From 2018 to 2025, she ran a Toronto-based game studio called TRU LUV, which created experimental games focused on care and characters, and was the first startup in Canada to attend the Apple Entrepreneur Camp in 2020. 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. She said "the most valuable thing a game can do for me: make me forget why I’m angry." ''#SelfCare'' was named in

Apple An apple is a round, edible fruit produced by an apple tree (''Malus'' spp.). Fruit trees of the orchard or domestic apple (''Malus domestica''), the most widely grown in the genus, are agriculture, cultivated worldwide. The tree originated ...

’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 its users.

References

External links

* https://truluv.ai/ {{DEFAULTSORT:Code, Brie Living people Women video game programmers University of British Columbia alumni Year of birth missing (living people)