Ed Healy
NationalityAmerican
Occupation(s)Game designer, Marketing
EmployerGamerati
Websiteedhealy.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,[2] 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.
  2. ↑ "Ed Healy - Gamerati". Gamerati. Retrieved July 10, 2018.
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