David Perry (game developer)


David Perry is a Northern Irish video game developer and programmer. He became prominent for programming platform games for 16bit home consoles in the early to mid 1990s, including Disneys Aladdin, Cool Spot, and Earthworm Jim. He founded Shiny Entertainment, where he worked from 1993 to 2006. Perry created games for companies such as Disney,Up, McDonalds, Orion Pictures, and Warner Bros. In 2008 he was presented with an honorary doctorate from Queens University Belfast for his services to computer gaming. He is cofounder of cloudbased games service Gaikai, which was acquired by Sony Computer Entertainment.

Perry was born in April 1967 in Lisburn, Northern Ireland, growing up in the towns of Templepatrick and Donegore in County Antrim, attending Templepatrick Primary School and then Methodist College Belfast.

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