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Eon Games
Eon Products was an American game company that produced board games and game supplements. History In 1972, Peter Olotka, Jack Kittredge, Bill Eberle, and Bill Norton (game designer), Bill Norton came together as the game design cooperative Future Pastimes. Seeking to publish their board game ''Cosmic Encounter'', they met Ned Horn, who offered to invest in the game; several weeks later, Olotka, Kittredge, Eberle, and Horn created a new company, Eon Products, and ''Cosmic Encounter'' went to press in 1977. The company also produced ''Hoax'', ''Ruins'', ''Quirks (board game), Quirks'' and ''Borderlands (board game), Borderlands''. The latter was implemented as the computer game ''Lords of Conquest'' (1986) published by Eon Software, Inc, and was re-released by Fantasy Flight games as ''Gearworld: The Borderlands''. The Eon design team also designed the Dune boardgame for the Avalon Hill Game Company. References {{Rpg-stub Role-playing game publishing companies ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Peter Olotka
Peter Olotka is a game designer who has worked primarily on board games, most notably Cosmic Encounter. Career In 1972, Peter Olotka, Jack Kittredge, Bill Eberle, and Bill Norton came together as the game design cooperative Future Pastimes. Seeking to publish their board game ''Cosmic Encounter'', they met Ned Horn, who offered to invest in the game; several weeks later, Olotka, Kittredge, Eberle, and Horn created a new company, Eon Products, and ''Cosmic Encounter'' went to press in 1977. Additionally, Allen Varney of ''Dragon Magazine'' claimed Olotka mentioned the idea of creating a collectible card game as early as 1979. Eberle, Kittredge, and Olotka designed '' Star Trek: The Enterprise 4 Encounter'' (1985), a board game that mixes combat and set collection, for West End Games. The trio also designed the 1979 ''Dune'' board game set in Frank Herbert's fantasy novels. Olotka released '' Cosmic Encounter Online'' in 2003, a high-tech Flash Flash, flashes, or FLASH may ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |