Ed Healy
| Ed Healy | |
|---|---|
| Born | Edward Perry Healy 15 December 1973 [citation needed] |
| Nationality | American |
| Occupation | Game designer, Marketing |
| Employer | Gamerati |
| Home town | DuPont, WA |
| Website | edhealy.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, a game marketing and promotions company, which he runs.
