Shiny Entertainment

Shiny Happy People

In 1993 David Perry formed Shiny Entertainment. It was named after Shiny Happy People (R.E.M). The logo was that of an orb - dark at first, which would light up.

From 1994 to 2005 Shiny developed Earthworm Jim 1 and 2, MDK, Wild Nine, RC Stunt Copter, Messiah, Sacrifice, Enter the Matrix, and The Path of Neo.

• 1994 Earthworm Jim
• 1995 Earthworm Jim 2
• 1997 MDK
• 1998 Wild 9
• 1999 RC Stunt Copter
• 2000 Messiah
• 2000 Sacrifice
• 2003 Enter the Matrix
• 2005 Path of Neo

Shiny was originally based in California along Laguna Beach. They had earned a reputation for creating video games of a high calibre. In their hey-day, they created some extremely inspired, artistic and original titles.

The original development team members from Earthworm Jim and MDK left the studio to form their own development houses. Doug TenNapel, Edward Schofield, Mike Dietz, Mark Lorenzen, Eric Ciccone and Steve Crow formed The Neverhood. Nick Bruty formed Planet Moon Studios.

After Earthworm Jim and MDK, the games Shiny developed as a studio became darker and were targetted towards an older audience. The studio switched focus to film based games in its latter years and developed two Matrix video games (the second one considered the better of the two by Matrix fans) with involvement from The Wachowski Brothers.

David Perry left Shiny in 2006 when it went on the market by its owning publisher.
In 2008 Shiny Entertainment ceased to exist. It was bought by Foundation 9 who merged it with another studio called "The Collective" to form Double Helix Games.

Perry's departure from Shiny Entertainment allowed him to explore and develop other projects which include teaching video game design and the creation and launch of the cloud-based gaming platform Gaikai.

He is an Executive Video Game Industry Consultant and has been in the business of making video games for over 25 years. He has helped push the boundaries of technology and is one of the real movers and shakers of the medium.