In the second break out of our new podcast Found , our guest is Brie Code. Code is the creator and CEO of TRU LUV, a startup headquartered out of Toronto that has it is roots in the game industry, but rather that is taking a radically new and exciting approach to designing interactive endures based on a historically-overlooked inspiring paradigm called ‘tend-and-befriend, ’ an alternative to the ‘fight-or-flight’ comeback aimed at by most AAA game studios.
Code’s startup developed #SelfCare, per mobile app that helps bring about users to explore a variety of fascinating experience s which might meant to do more than simply encourage them to engage in competitive behavior from with other players, or while having computer-controlled antagonists. The determination for creating this kind of thing available for Code came from recognizing it’s actually absence in the existing current market place, and identifying a huge cost gap that just wasn’t being addressed. Building onto her expertise in the game industry construction interactions for non-player attitude (NPCs) and her hunt for academic research on the subject of ‘tend-and-befriend, ’ Code set up to make a venture-scalable business into define a new category of interest.
TRU LUV’s first touchpoint with computer ownsers may be its app, testifies startup has big goals and objectives that extend all the way to a more substantial mission of “healing our relationship with technology. ” Conversing the founder behind that pursuit reveals how serious that mission runs both ready, and her startup.
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