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.

Shelley had worked with Avalon Hill to develop a number of board games for the company, Shelley soon became Meier's direct assistant to designing new video games, several of which were inspired by Shelley's past board game experience. Their first collaboration, Railroad Tycoon, was partially based on Shelley's work on 1830. Subsequently, the two worked together to create Civilization. There, he brought ideas from Civilization and led the development of the early titles in the Age of Empires series, first released in 1997. Through fellow designers Brian Reynolds and Dave Pottinger, Shelley has also worked for games with Zynga. He is currently working with a Texas-based company known as Bonusxp.

Between 2000 and 2006, he was a member of the Board of Directors of the Academy of Interactive Arts & Sciences. He was inducted into the academy's Hall of Fame in 2009.