George Vasilakos
Born
United States
NationalityAmerican
Occupation(s)Art director, businessperson
Children3

George Vasilakos is President and art director of Eden Studios, Inc., and handles the majority of the day-to-day business of the company.[1]

Career

George Vasilakos founded the Imagination Games & Comics store in New York in 1992, after finishing art school.[2]: 340  Vasilakos and a few others at his store decided to make their own collectible card game, and with input from attorney M. Alexander Jurkat, they formed New Millenium Entertainment and published the Battlelords CCG (1995) and the role-playing game Conspiracy X (1996).[2]: 340  Vasilakos was the art director for New Millenium Entertainment.[3] New Millenium went out of business due to debts from poor sales on the collectible card game, and Vasilakos and Jurkat joined with investor Ed Healy to announce on July 4, 1997 that they had started the new Eden Studios gaming company and had acquired the rights from New Millenium Entertainment to continue the Conspiracy X line.[2]: 340  Vasilakos shut down his Imagination Games & Comics store in June 1997 to begin working full-time for Eden Studios.[2]: 340  Vasilakos and Jurkat were fans of the work done by C.J. Carella, and in July 1998 they announced an exclusive license to the WitchCraft and Armageddon role-playing games by Carella, previously published by small-press roleplaying publisher Myrmidon Press.[2]: 340  Vasilakos was the inspiration behind the Abduction and Knights of the Dinner Table: HACK! card games.[3]

Last Unicorn Games offered Vasilakos a job in 1999 so he moved to California to work in their office, while remaining President of Eden Studios.[2]: 341  Vasilakos stayed with Last Unicorn Games after they were bought by Wizards of the Coast in 2000, and then bought by Decipher, Inc. in 2001.[2]: 341  Vasilakos was the art director at Last Unicorn, and retained that position at Wizards and Decipher.[3] Vasilakos and Christopher Shy created the All Flesh Must Be Eaten (2000) role-playing game.[2]: 341  At Decipher, Vasilakos worked on the Star Trek and Lord of the Rings RPGs.[3] Vasilakos directed all the graphics work on the Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Angel, and Army of Darkness roleplaying game lines for Eden Studios.[3] Vasilakos opened another game store in Albany, New York in June 2003 called Zombie Planet.[2]: 342 

George Vasilakos helped graphic artist Francis Hogan develop the kid-friendly RPG Adventure Maximus.[4]

Personal life

Vasilakos lives in Loudonville, New York with his wife and two sons, Theo and Dimitri and daughter Sophia.[3]

References

  1. ↑ Higgins, Dan (2004-11-27). "Zombies give franchise bite". Times Union. p. B10.
  2. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 Shannon Appelcline (2011). Designers & Dragons. Mongoose Publishing. ISBN 978-1-907702-58-7.
  3. 1 2 3 4 5 6 Vasilakos, George (2007). "Vampire: The Masquerade". In Lowder, James (ed.). Hobby Games: The 100 Best. Green Ronin Publishing. pp. 348–351. ISBN 978-1-932442-96-0.
  4. ↑ Roiter, Andrew (May 23, 2013). "Ready for an Adventure?". Archived from the original on 2016-03-04.
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