Shelley Day
Shelley Day is a former producer of video games. She began her career in 1985 with Electronic Arts. After leaving LucasArts, she founded Humongous Entertainment with colleague Ron Gilbert. She also worked for Accolade, Taito, and LucasArts before cofounding Humongous Entertainment. She created the famous Putt-Putt character as a bedtime story for her son, which became a series of popular children's video games. In 1999 she was listed on Time Magazine as one of the "Cyber Elite".[1] She also assisted in the development of Humongous's brand, Cavedog Entertainment. After leaving Humongous, she founded Hulabee Entertainment in 2001 to provide online games for kids, Approximately 20 Humongous's staff joined her and Mr. Gilbert at their new company.
On December 2, 2005, she was sentenced to 24 months in prison for defrauding Asia Europe Americas Bank of Seattle of $1.4 million in order to buy her "dream home" on Mercer Island. She was convicted of falsely claiming to the bank loan officer that Disney Interactive had agreed to buy part of Hulabee Entertainment and presenting forged documents to support that claim.[2][3][4]