Ed Healy
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Ed Healy | |
|---|---|
| Nationality | American |
| Occupation(s) | Game designer, Marketing |
| Employer | Gamerati |
| Website | edhealy |
Edward P. Healy is a game designer who has worked primarily on role-playing games. He co-founded Eden Studios.[1]
Career
On July 4, 1997, George Vasilakos, Alex Jurkat, and Ed Healy announced that they had formed the new gaming company, Eden Studios; they also acquired the rights to Conspiracy X to continue the line.[2]: 340 Healy had suggested the name "Eden" because the group was trying to create their paradise job.[2]: 340 Healy was forced to divest himself of his Eden ownership in 1997 when he joined Deloitte & Touche as a staff accountant, although he was allowed to continue with game design.[2]: 406
When Healy was working on a Risk-like dice mechanic, he found that Sorcerer's dice system was almost identical to what he had been working on; he struck up a friendship with the game's designer Ron Edwards, which led him to the Gaming Outpost and an experimental community of designers.[2]: 406 The owners of Gaming Outpost soon asked Healy for help with business development, and he came up with the idea of creating a network of cobranded RPG sites, which would all feed into the Outpost.[2]: 406 Bill Walton's RPG advocacy site The Escapist soon came aboard, and Healy created a site with Edwards in December 1999 called Hephaestus's Forge, the "Internet Home of Indie Roleplaying Games".[2]: 406
In June 2007, Healy founded Gamerati, a game marketing and promotions company, which he runs. In 2010, he won a Gold ENNIE Award for his podcast, Atomic Array.[3]
References
- ^ Donohue, Steve (April 17, 2019). "Interview with an RPG Professional: Ed Healy". Retrieved February 15, 2024.
- ^ a b c d e f Shannon Appelcline (2011). Designers & Dragons. Mongoose Publishing. ISBN 978-1-907702-58-7.
- ^ "Ed Healy - Gamerati". Gamerati. Archived from the original on February 2, 2023.