Eon Products was an American game company that produced board games and game supplements.
History
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
- ^ 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
Company profile in Games #39
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