Nick Bruty

Nicholas Anthony Bruty or Nick Bruty (born in 1969 in Longfield, Kent) is a Britishvideo game designer and entrepreneur.

He was raised and educated in Livingston, Scotland. He made his first step into video games when he was 15, working for company SoftStone with his friend David Quinn. Bruty had done some projects for SoftStone when it went bust in 1984. In 1987 Bruty joined Probe Software, where he met another notable industry figure David Perry. Together they formed a team, with Bruty as artist and Perry as programmer, making arcade classics such as Trantor: The Last Stormtrooper, Savage, Overlord and Dan Dare 3.

In 1992 Perry and Bruty went to the American division of Virgin Games where they worked on Global Gladiators, Cool Spot, Aladdin and The Jungle Book. In 1993 David Perry formed Shiny Entertainment in California and Bruty and some members of Virgin Games followed in after finishing The Jungle Book. While at Shiny, Bruty led the art direction on cult platformers Earthworm Jim and its sequel, and in the Special Edition of Earthworm Jim the level "Big Bruty" was named after him. The finest hour of Bruty in Shiny came with 1997 hit shooter MDK. He was responsible for the idea of the game itself, the characters, and its humorous style.

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