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Mike Perry (game developer)

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store, and played rhythm guitar for a local heavy metal band. He then decided to seek an actual career in the game industry, cold-calling various companies in the
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to work as a project manager, doing what was called "Maintenance Producing," supporting updates on existing products such as
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enthusiast in high school, using it to teach himself how to program games and
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as "Best Secondary Education Program." The following year, Perry produced
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applications. His stepfather later took a job as medical professor at the
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For the next two years he worked part-time at the videogame booth in a
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In 2011, Perry left Maxis/EA, and as of July 2011 is working at
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games. He produced and designed the award-winning title
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Mike Perry (Maxis)

Game designer
producer
Maxis
Electronic Arts
Zynga
Maxis
Electronic Arts
Sim
SimFarm
Yoot Saito
SimTower
Zynga
FarmVille
Astrosmash
BASIC
Timex Sinclair 1000
Pensacola Naval Air Station
U.S. Navy
C64
BBS
University of South Alabama
Toys R Us
Bay Area
Hudson Soft
Bomberman 2
Super Adventure Island
Jeff Braun
Maxis

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