Bruce Shelley

Who is Bruce Shelley?

Bruce Campbell Shelley is a computer game designer who helped design Sid Meier's Civilization and Railroad Tycoon with MicroProse and the 1997 hit real-time strategy game Age of Empires with Ensemble Studios. Before getting into the computer games industry, he worked on tabletop role-playing games and board games at Iron Crown Enterprises and Avalon Hill. He is currently working with Zynga, best known for Farmville, and helped develop FrontierVille in 2010. He served in an advisor role at Ensemble until it closed down in 2009 and recently stepped down from the board of directors of the Academy of Interactive Arts & Sciences. He also acted as a consultant on the Ubisoft game, The Settlers 7: Paths to a Kingdom.