Shelley M. Day (born April 16, 1957) is an American former

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. She began her career in 1985, at

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. Day also worked for

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and

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before founding

Humongous Entertainment Humongous, Inc. (formerly Humongous Entertainment, Inc.) was an American video game developer based in Bothell, Washington. Founded in 1992, the company developed multiple edutainment franchises, most prominently ''Putt-Putt (series), Putt-Putt' ...

together with colleague

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. She was the producer on ''

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'' and '' The Duel: Test Drive II'' at Accolade, and '' Monkey Island 2: LeChuck's Revenge'' and ''

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'' 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 ''

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'' 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.

Fraud conviction

On December 2, 2005, she was sentenced to 30 months in prison and five years on supervised release for defrauding the Asia Europe Americas Bank of Seattle of more than in order to buy her "dream home" on

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. She was convicted of falsely claiming to the bank loan officer that

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had agreed to buy part of Hulabee Entertainment and presenting forged documents to support that claim.CEO Claimed Disney Was Purchasing Her Company To Try To Buy "Dream Home" On Mercer Island
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1957 births American female criminals American people convicted of fraud American video game designers American video game producers Electronic Arts employees Living people Lucasfilm people Place of birth missing (living people) Women video game designers {{Videogame-bio-stub