Bruce Shelley

Bruce Campbell Shelley is an American board and video game designer.

He is primarily associated as the co-designer of the video games Railroad Tycoon and Civilization with Sid Meier, and later the Age of Empires series.

Due to these developments, as well as a changing atmosphere at Microprose, Shelley left the company by the end of 1992 and later joined Ensemble Studios.

[4] There, he brought ideas from Civilization and led the development of the early titles in the Age of Empires series, first released in 1997.

[2] Through fellow designers Brian Reynolds and Dave Pottinger, Shelley has also worked for games with Zynga.