The primary logo for Shiny Entertainment, created by producing and then using a rubber stamp, and revised when the company moved into 3D games[1]
Company type
Subsidiary
Industry
Video games
Founded
October 1993; 30 years ago (1993-10)
Founder
David Perry
Defunct
October 9, 2007 (2007-10-09)
Fate
Merged with The Collective
Successor
Double Helix Games
Headquarters
Laguna Beach, California
,
U.S.
Key people
David Perry (president; 1993–2006)
Michael Persson (studio head; 2006–2007)
Products
Earthworm Jim series
MDK
Messiah
Sacrifice
Enter the Matrix
Parent
Interplay Entertainment
(1995–2002)
Atari
(2002–2006)
Foundation 9 Entertainment
(2006–2007)
Shiny Entertainment, Inc. was an American video game developer based in Laguna Beach, California. Founded in October 1993 by David Perry, Shiny was the creator of video games such as Earthworm Jim, MDK and Enter the Matrix. Perry sold the company to Interplay Productions in 1995, which sold the studio to Infogrames, Inc. in 2002. After Foundation 9 Entertainment acquired Shiny in 2006, the company was merged with The Collective in October 2007, creating Double Helix Games.
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