Peter Olotka
# Peter Olotka

Peter Olotka is a game designer who has worked primarily on board games, most notably Cosmic Encounter.

## Career

In 1972, Peter Olotka, Jack Kittredge, Bill Eberle, and Bill Norton came together as the game design cooperative Future $Pastimes.^{:188}$ 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 $1977.^{:188}$ Additionally, Allen Varney of Dragon Magazine claimed Olotka mentioned the idea of creating a collectible card game as early as 1979. Eberle, Kittredge, and Olotka designed Star Trek: The Enterprise 4 Encounter (1985), a board game that mixes combat and set collection, for West End $Games.^{:189}$ The trio also designed the 1979 Dune board game set in Frank Herbert's fantasy novels.

Olotka released Cosmic Encounter Online in 2003, a high-tech Flash version of Eon's original $game.^{:188}$

