David Perry
David Perry
David Perryis a Northern Irish video game developer and programmer. He became prominent for programming platform games for 16-bit home consoles in the early to mid 1990s, including Disney's 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, 7 Up, McDonald's, Orion Pictures, and Warner Bros. In 2008 he was presented with an honorary doctorate from Queen's University Belfast for his services to computer...
NationalityIrish
ProfessionEntrepreneur
Date of Birth4 April 1967
CountryIreland
Microsoft built the architecture that made it (the hole) possible.
It can make your brand inaccessible to people.
My mother wanted desperately to contribute to the war effort, ... Her brother was a pilot. And so she drew, she painted, she worked for the Red Cross, she was a recreational therapist with wounded soldiers, whatever she could do.
There are about 300 million computers on the Internet (but) the number of NT installations on desktops is relatively miniscule,
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We actually have people abandoning using their computers because it's just too much trouble,
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There is no other event out there that combines snowboarding and skiing in an open registration format on this scale. This event is receiving incredible hype and response in its inaugural year and promises to set the standard for open competitions.
For me, writing is like gold. It saddens me a lot that many video game companies don't hire triple-A writers and that they use their game designers instead. That's why, when real writers look at video game stories, they kind of roll their eyes. But that's something that I see changing, I really do.
If that's the case, if it's too much trouble to use the system, then certain changes need to be made.
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