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February 1st, 2010, 11:05
http://cache.gawker.com/assets/images/9/2010/02/500x_shelley2.jpg (http://cache.gawker.com/assets/images/9/2010/02/shelley2.jpg)Living legend Bruce Shelley (http://kotaku.com/tag/bruceshelley/), with Civilization and Age of Empires as notches on his belt, has been out of the limelight since his studio, Ensemble, went bust last year (http://kotaku.com/5157029/so-why-did-ensemble-studios-close-up). So, Bruce, been keeping busy?
You bet he has. Ubisoft has begun marketing Settlers 7 (http://kotaku.com/tag/settlers7/) in the West, and to help boost awareness of the series in the US (it's always been a more Germanic affair), the publisher has revealed that Bruce Shelley has helped as a "game design consultant".
It's only a "helping hand" kind of thing, so it's not like he's redesigned the series, but it'll still be interesting to see how his hand has helped guide the game.
Ensemble co-founder working on The Settlers 7 (http://news.bigdownload.com/2010/01/31/ensemble-co-founder-working-on-the-settlers-7/) [Big Download]
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You bet he has. Ubisoft has begun marketing Settlers 7 (http://kotaku.com/tag/settlers7/) in the West, and to help boost awareness of the series in the US (it's always been a more Germanic affair), the publisher has revealed that Bruce Shelley has helped as a "game design consultant".
It's only a "helping hand" kind of thing, so it's not like he's redesigned the series, but it'll still be interesting to see how his hand has helped guide the game.
Ensemble co-founder working on The Settlers 7 (http://news.bigdownload.com/2010/01/31/ensemble-co-founder-working-on-the-settlers-7/) [Big Download]
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