"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. From 2011 to 2013 he worked 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.

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Christianity is the only major religion to have as its central event the humiliation of its God.

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We do listen to the feedback quite a bit, ... We have at least one or two full-time people who are monitoring fan sites. ... That has an impact on everything we do.

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We went as high as we could. We were actually putting graphic effects in here you couldn't see on any graphics card commercially available when we were working on the game.

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They just want to have the action.

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We haven't announced anything and we don't really have anything in development, but we're experimenting and we're building some new prototypes. My guess is the next game we publish will be something different, something completely unexpected.

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A fraternity house. ... He wants you to have a good time whether you're working or not.

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The programming team set out to make the best-looking PC game ever.

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I got into this business to make games that I wanted to play. Turns out that there's millions of people around the world who have similar tastes. Not only was it fun, but we made a living doing it.

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My boss thinks it's the best entertainment product Microsoft's ever made.

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