Edward P. Healy is a
game designer
Game design is the art of applying design and aesthetics to create a game for entertainment or for educational, exercise, or experimental purposes. Increasingly, elements and principles of game design are also applied to other interactions, in ...
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
Eden Studios was a commercial recording studio, recording facility in west London. It opened in 1967, originally at 11 Eden Street in Kingston upon Thames (now under the Eden Walk shopping centre), before moving to 20-24 Beaumont Road in Chiswic ...
; they also acquired the rights to ''
Conspiracy X
''Conspiracy X'' is a role-playing game (RPG) originally released by New Millennium Entertainment in 1996, and since revised and released by several publishers including Steve Jackson Games and Eden Studios, Inc. In all versions, the setting p ...
'' to continue the line.
Healy had suggested the name "Eden" because the group was trying to create their paradise job.
Healy was forced to divest himself of his Eden ownership in 1997 when he joined
Deloitte & Touche
Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu Limited (), commonly referred to as Deloitte, is an international professional services network headquartered in London, England. Deloitte is the largest professional services network by revenue and number of profession ...
as a staff accountant, although he was allowed to continue with game design.
When Healy was working on a ''
Risk
In simple terms, risk is the possibility of something bad happening. Risk involves uncertainty about the effects/implications of an activity with respect to something that humans value (such as health, well-being, wealth, property or the environm ...
''-like dice mechanic, he found that ''
Sorcerers 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.
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.
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".
In June 2007, Healy founded Gamerati,
a game marketing and promotions company, which he runs.
References
External links
Home Page*
{{DEFAULTSORT:Healy, Ed
1973 births
Living people
Role-playing game designers