Peter Olotka

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Peter Olotka
NationalityAmerican
OccupationGame designer

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

Career[]

In 1972, Peter Olotka, , , and came together as the game design cooperative .[1]: 188  Seeking to publish their board game Cosmic Encounter, they met , 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] 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.[1]: 189  The trio also designed the 1979 Dune board game set in Frank Herbert's fantasy novels.[3]

Olotka released Cosmic Encounter Online in 2003, a high-tech Flash version of Eon's original game.[1]: 188 

References[]

  1. ^ a b c d Shannon Appelcline (2011). Designers & Dragons. Mongoose Publishing. ISBN 978-1-907702- 58-7.
  2. ^ Varney, Allen (January 1994). "Role-playing Reviews" (PDF). Dragon Magazine. TSR, Inc. pp. 66–67. Retrieved 2017-12-19.
  3. ^ "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.
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