I've been running this blog semi-anonymously for the past few years. But some minor Googling would get you going on whatever you wanted to know about me, so I figured it was about time to add a proper "About Me" page.
Hi, I'm Mike Perry. I create video games for a living. I've been making games for around 20 years, and I'm currently a Creative Director at Electronic Arts. You've probably played some games that I produced, designed, programmed, or otherwise contributed to in some way, like The Godfather, The Sims, SimCity, and others. I've been lucky enough to have Will Wright as my game design mentor, and was fortunate to learn from the Japanese game masters at Hudson Soft back in the heyday of the NES.
I've given a few talks at the Game Developers Conference, and I have a semi-accurate Wikipedia entry here ![[WikiPedia]](http://www.mikeyp.com/css/external.gif)
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For fun, I play games (duh), travel, fiddle with computers and gadgets, hike, DIY home repair, read books and alternative comics, and calibrate my home theater. I occasionally study jazz guitar at the Jazz School in Berkeley, and I own way too many guitars for someone who plays as poorly as I do.
This blog at MikeyP.com has no meaningful purpose. I just started it in order to write down things that I would likely forget, and would possibly be interesting to other folks.
Absolutely nothing I write here is approved of or endorsed by my employer. All opinions are solely my own.
