Ed Healy
# Ed Healy

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 $line.^{:340}$ Healy had suggested the name "Eden" because the group was trying to create their paradise $job.^{:340}$ 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 $design.^{:406}$

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 $designers.^{:406}$ 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 $Outpost.^{:406}$ 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 $Games".^{:406}$

In June 2007, Healy founded Gamerati, a game marketing and promotions company, which he runs.

