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Eric B. Vogel
NationalityAmerican
OccupationGame designer

Eric B. Vogel is a clinical psychologist, a professor of psychology, and a game designer.

Career

Professor of Psychology

As a Doctor of Psychology, Vogel was a professor at John F. Kennedy University in Pleasant Hill, California from 2002 to 2021.[1] Since 2021 he has been a professor in the John F. Kennedy School of Psychology at National University[2] in Pleasant Hill, California, and since 2023 he has been a professor in the California Northstate University College of Psychology in Rancho Cordova, California.[3] He is the 2009 winner of the Eugene Benjamin Sagan award for Outstanding Teaching in Psychology.[4] His research has been published in the Journal of Phenomenological Psychology[5] [6]and The International Journal of Sport Psychology.[7]

Game Designer

Vogel's game design career began in 2004 with Land of Psymon published by The Creative Therapy Store, a psychotherapeutic game intended to teach children Cognitive behavioral therapy skills by showing them how to defend against psychological monsters ("psymon") that represent negative thinking and common cognitive distortions.[8] The Spanish edition, El Planeta di los Psimon was published by TEA in 2010.[9]

He subsequently switched from designing psychotherapeutic board games to tabletop hobby games. To date, his most successful game has been The Dresden Files Cooperative Card Game, which raised over a half-a-million dollars in a Kickstarter campaign. The game won the 2018 Silver ENnie for Best RPG Related Product.[10] This was produced as part of an ongoing partnership with Evil Hat Productions that has resulted in several releases.[11]: 323  The Dresden Files has had 5 published expansions,[12] as well as an electronic version by Hidden Achievement released for Android, IOS, Kindle, Mac, Nintendo Swtich, and Windows.[13]

His other published games include: Cambria[14] and Hibernia[15] published in 2011 by Closet Nerd Games, Romans Go Home[16] published in 2014 by Lui-Meme, Zeppelin Attack[17] published in 2014 by Evil Hat Productions, Don't Turn Your Back[18] published in 2015 by Evil Hat Productions, Kaiju Incorporated[19] published in 2016 by Evil Hat Productions, Kitara[20] published in 2020 by Iello, and First Empires[21] published in 2022 by Sand Castle Games. Kitara won the 2021 UK Games Expo Best New Boardgame American-Style Judge's Award and People's Choice.[22]

References

  1. ^ https://web.archive.org/web/20130126034507/http://www.jfku.edu/Programs-and-Courses/College-of-Graduate-Professional-Studies/Department-of-Clinical-Psychology/Faculty/Eric-Vogel.html
  2. ^ https://www.nu.edu/degrees/jfk-psychology/faculty/eric-vogel/
  3. ^ https://www.psychology.cnsu.edu/faculty
  4. ^ "Eric B. Vogel, Psy.D." Archived from the original on January 31, 2019.
  5. ^ https://brill.com/view/journals/jpp/46/2/jpp.46.issue-2.xml?language=en
  6. ^ https://brill.com/view/journals/jpp/52/1/article-p96_4.xml
  7. ^ http://www.ijsp-online.com/abstract/view/48/419
  8. ^ Eric B. Vogel (2004), Land of Psymon, WPS The Creative Therapy Store
  9. ^ https://web.teaediciones.com/EL-PLANETA-DE-LOS-PSIMON.aspx#:~:text=El%20Planeta%20de%20los%20Psimon%20es%20un%20sencillo%20juego%20de,Beck.
  10. ^ "2018 Nominees and Winners – ENNIE Awards". Retrieved 2023-04-03.
  11. ^ Shannon Appelcline (2014). Designers & Dragons: The '00s. Evil Hat Productions. ISBN 978-1-61317-087-8.
  12. ^ https://evilhat.com/product/dresden-files-cooperative-card-game/
  13. ^ https://dfco.hiddenachievement.com/
  14. ^ https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/38873/cambria
  15. ^ https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/42688/hibernia
  16. ^ https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/140997/romans-go-home
  17. ^ https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/153639/zeppelin-attack
  18. ^ https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/172896/dont-turn-your-back
  19. ^ https://evilhat.com/product/kaiju-incorporated-the-card-game/
  20. ^ https://iello.fr/jeux/kitara/
  21. ^ https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/353304/first-empires
  22. ^ https://www.ukgamesexpo.co.uk/content/news/award-winners-uk-games-expo-2021/


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