Shelley Day
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Shelley Day

Video game designer (born 1957)

Shelley M. Day (born April 16, 1957) is an American former video game producer.2

From Wikipedia’s article on Shelley Day (this version), CC BY-SA 4.0.

Born Apr 16, 1957.1

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Career

Occupation: engineer.4

Day began her career in 1985 at Electronic Arts. She also worked for Accolade, Taito and LucasArts before founding Humongous Entertainment together with colleague Ron Gilbert.

She was the producer on Grand Prix Circuit and The Duel: Test Drive II at Accolade, and Monkey Island 2: LeChuck's Revenge and Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis at Lucasarts. She created the Putt-Putt series' eponymous protagonist as a bedtime story for her son, which later became a popular series of children's video games.

In 1999, she was listed on Time Magazine as one of the "Cyber Elite". After leaving Humongous Entertainment in 2001, Day and Gilbert founded Hulabee Entertainment to provide online games for kids, with approximately 20 former Humongous Entertainment staff joining them.

From Wikipedia’s article on Shelley Day (this version), CC BY-SA 4.0.

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