David Perry (born 1967) is a Northern Irish video game developer who has created dozens of computer games, the best known of which include Earthworm Jim, MDK, Messiah , Wild 9 and Enter the Matrix. He also founded Shiny Entertainment, where he worked from 1993-2006. The company created games for many internationally-known brands and companies, including Disney, 7 Up, McDonald's, Orion Pictures, and Warner Bros. http://whatisthematrix.warnerbros.com/html/enternewsindex.html
David Perry is the Global Director of Education for Trend Micro, a computer antivirus software company. He represents Trend Micro at industry, government, customer and reseller events worldwide.
He is a leading authority on computer virus prevention with more than 25 years in the technical support and education field. He has appeared at numerous industry trade shows, been featured on hundreds of television and radio broadcasts and in print media interviews, and is well recognized in the antivirus industry. He is one of the most quoted experts in the field of computer viruses, malware and security education.
He has worked in the field since 1991, and in the computer industry since 1979. David has been interviewed by Time magazine, The New York Times, The Washington Post, ZDNet and other publications. He has appeared on TV and radio all over the world, including Good Morning America, BBC News, Fox News and ABC News.
He has been a top rated industry speaker at events like RSA, EICAR, AVAR and has even spoken in the White House. Perry was also on hand in Washington D.C. at the end of 1999 during the Y2K vigilance, providing his services as a computer virus expert for the President's Task Force on Y2K Issues.
He lives in Huntington Beach, California with his wife, Margaret.
David Perry is an Australian photographer and filmmaker, based in Sydney. During work on the production of The Theatre of Cruelty in Sydney, July 1965, he joined Albie Thoms, Aggy Read and John Clarke in establishing Ubu Films—named after Alfred Jarry's play Ubu Roi. This was Australia’s first consciously avant garde filmmaking group.
16-mm experimental films include The Tribulations of Mr Dupont Nomore (1967); Bolero (1967); A Sketch of Abigayl's Belly (1968); David Perry's Album (1970); and Adam (1975). Ubu Films 1965-70 is a retrospective video compilation, released in 1997 . Refracting Glasses (1992) is a 109-minute feature film which "uses a range of techniques (actuality and staged footage, optical effects, animation) in an essay-like construction on the theme of the historical status of the artist invoking, amongst a diverse range of references, the Ern Malley hoax and the work of the Russian artist V.E. Tatlin" .
David Perry is the President and founder of Shiny Entertainment, Inc. A 21-year game industry veteran, Perry launched his professional career at just 15 years of age, when he started writing video game programming books in his native Northern Ireland. Since then, Perry has developed 32 games (serving as lead programmer on 24 of them), totaling 88 individual retail titles across 23 video game platforms. All told, Perry's games have totaled more than $500 million in sales. Perry sits on the advisory board of the Game Developers Conference and is a regular speaker at industry conferences, award shows and industry research organizations. Through his movie licensed games like The Terminator, Disney's Aladdin & Enter the Matrix, Perry is creating ever closer ways for Hollywood and the video game industry to work together.
