Shelley Day is a former producer of children's video games. She founded Humongous Entertainment with colleague Ron Gilbert. She created the famous Putt-Putt character as a bedtime story for her son, Travis, which became a series of popular children's video games. In 1999 she was listed on Time Magazine as one of the "Cyber Elite". She also founded Humongous' subsidiary, Cavedog Entertainment. After leaving Humongous, she founded Hulabee Entertainment in 2001 to provide online games for kids, taking most of Humongous' staff with her.
On December 2, 2005, she was sentenced to 30 months in prison for defrauding Asia Europe Americas Bank of Seattle of over $1.5 million. She falsely claimed to the bank loan officer that Disney Interactive was buying part of Hulabee and she presented forged documents to support that claim.
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