 In 1992, Perry was hired by Jeff Braun of Maxis to work as a project manager, doing what was called "Maintenance Producing," supporting updates on existing products such as "SimEarth" and "SimCity".Perry was then given a new project, "SimFarm", which he produced and co-designed with engineer Eric Albers.The game won the Codie award in 1993 from the Software Publishers Association as "Best Secondary Education Program."