Eon Products
Eon Products was an American game company that produced board games and game supplements.
History
[edit]In 1972, Peter Olotka, Jack Kittredge, Bill Eberle, and Bill Norton came together as the game design cooperative Future Pastimes.[1]: 188 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.[1]: 188 Additionally, Allen Varney of Dragon Magazine claimed Olotka mentioned the idea of creating a collectible card game as early as 1979.[2] Cosmic Encounter Online, a Flash version of Eon's original game, was released in 2003.[1]: 188
The company also produced Hoax, Ruins, Quirks and 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 year before, Eberle, Kittredge, and Olotka had designed Star Trek: The Enterprise 4 Encounter (1985), a board game that mixes combat and set collection, for West End Games.[1]: 189 The trio also designed the 1979 Dune board game set in Frank Herbert's fantasy novels.[3]
References
[edit]- ^ a b c d Shannon Appelcline (2011). Designers & Dragons. Mongoose Publishing. ISBN 978-1-907702-58-7.
- ^ Varney, Allen (January 1994). "Role-playing Reviews" (PDF). Dragon Magazine. TSR, Inc. pp. 66–67. Retrieved 2017-12-19.
- ^ "35 years later, the extremely rare, extremely good Dune board game is finally getting a reprint". TabletopGaming.co.uk. 15 March 2019. Retrieved 16 March 2019.
External links
[edit]Company profile in Games #39
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