Wade co-founded New York City based Large Animal Games (www.largeanimal.com) with partner Josh Welber in 2001. Since then, Large Animal has developed over 45 games for a variety of platforms and audiences. Their puzzle game AlphaQUEUE was a finalist in the 2004 Independent Games Festival, and RocketBowl was a 2005 IGF Award winner. Wade serves on the IGDA Online Games Special Interest Group steering committee, is a regular contributor to their annual Web & Downloadable Games Whitepaper and is the founding editor of the Online Games Quarterly. He's taught game design at Parsons School of Design and New York University.