Ed Healy

Not to be confused with Ed Healey, the American football Hall of Famer.
Ed Healy
Born Edward Perry Healy
(1973-12-15) 15 December 1973
United States
Nationality American
Occupation Game designer, Marketing
Employer Gamerati
Home town DuPont, Washington
Website edhealy.com

Edward P. Healy is a game designer who has worked primarily on role-playing games.

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.[1]:340 Healy had suggested the name "Eden" because the group was trying to create their paradise job.[1]: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.[1]: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.[1]: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.[1]: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".[1]:406

In June 2007, Healy founded Gamerati, a game marketing and promotions company, which he runs.

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 6 Shannon Appelcline (2011). Designers & Dragons. Mongoose Publishing. ISBN 978-1-907702- 58-7.

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