Wade Brainerd

@wadetb

Principal Technical Director at Activision

Portland, ME
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Joined February 2012
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  1. Jan 12

    17 years ago I wrote a lot of the graphics code behind SpiderMan 2, showcasing the power of the PlayStation 2. Never in a million years would have imagined these same buildings ray traced, in realtime on PlayStation 5. Simply amazing , Sony ATG, et. al. Bravo!

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  2. 3 Dec 2020

    One of the (many) joys of homeschooling my kids this year has been making the daily worksheets in LaTeX. It's a satisfying kind of coding, and designing & adapting problems to where they are at each day is rewarding.

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    1 Dec 2020

    I released my free robotics educational resource for kids named Twenty two weeks ago. Today, you can download the wiring diagram to wire your bot ❤️🤖

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  4. 2 Dec 2020

    In this app, async/await keeps tricking me into race conditions. Why isn't await the default behavior when calling an async function?

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  5. 26 Nov 2020

    Unusual Thanksgiving here, but not all bad. Cross-posted from Jennie's Instagram:

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  6. 23 Nov 2020

    Why I can't just start with the second option!?

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  7. 23 Nov 2020

    ...then go to their Store site, click the Chat button, and someone named Marek solves my problem in 30 minutes and is super friendly the whole time.

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  8. 23 Nov 2020

    Whenever my kid's MINI stops printing perfectly I read forums and clean and tighten and loosen and consider ordering parts and test and test and...

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    19 Oct 2020

    Our slides for "Raytraced Shadows in Call of Duty: Modern Warfare" are up!

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    25 Sep 2020

    Has anyone used git-lfs for a large game project yet? Does it work in practice? (Also, has anyone used Microsoft Scalar? Thoughts on that?)

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    17 Sep 2020

    My brother has two years of mobile app development experience and lost his job due to covid. Does anyone have any openings or leads? He's a hard worker.

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    4 Sep 2020

    We did it. is out today and as I read more reviews and see more fan reactions I’m seriously fighting back my tears. This is more than I ever dreamed of. The hype. This love. It’s all been amazing. My first game as an Associate Producer.

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    4 Sep 2020

    I'd say it was unreal to see my name in the credits, but I wrote these 😂 So proud of our team!

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    26 Aug 2020

    Part 2 is live! - on Precomputed Lighting Pipeline in Modern Warfare; and and Steven Tang from about tech art for ; Q&A session to follow shortly.

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  15. 23 Aug 2020

    I just filed the form to homeschool our boys (7 and 11) this year. Never would have considered w/o COVID, cognizant of the privilege we're exercising in having the option, and excited/freaked out by the coming adventure.

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    27 Jan 2020

    Do any of my followers have interest in /regression ? If an amazing/robust product which you could use with just a single and a few lines of C/C++ integration code and no experience existed, would you be interested in using it?

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  17. 22 Aug 2020

    How exciting when someone takes a quick look at your code (widely deployed for years) and finds a 5x speedup! Thanks

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    21 Aug 2020

    Almost no one in tech talks about their kids and I have a lot of ugly theories (and experiences) around it. I just want y’all to know I have 2 awesome kids, and parents in tech exist.

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  19. 20 Aug 2020

    Code has been committed for nearly a week and the build is completely locked down and submitted, but QA have yet to test my system. Is the code in a quantum superposition of perfect and totally broken until they update the JIRA?

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    16 Aug 2020

    details and schedule are up: -

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