Eden Studios, Inc. Explained

Eden Studios, Inc.
Foundation:	July 4, 1997
Location City:	Albany, New York
Location Country:	United States
Locations:	2
Key People:	George Vasilakos, M. Alexander Jurkat, C.J. Carella, Alexandros Vasilakos
Industry:	Role-playing game publisher
Products:	Conspiracy X, All Flesh Must Be Eaten, CJ Carella's WitchCraft
Dissolved:	2017

Eden Studios, Inc. was an American role-playing game publisher founded in 1996 by George Vasilakos, M. Alexander Jurkat, and Ed Healy. Eden Studios is best known for Conspiracy X, the Buffyverse role-playing games,^[1] All Flesh Must Be Eaten, CJ Carella's WitchCraft and most recently for the City of Heroes Roleplaying Game, an unreleased adaptation of Cryptic Studios' MMORPG City of Heroes.

Games

• Abduction: The Card Game
• Adventure Maximus^[2]
• All Flesh Must Be Eaten
• Angel (Origins Award winner for Roleplaying Game of 2003^[3]) and Buffy: The Vampire Slayer^[4]
• Army of Darkness^{[1] [5]}
• Beyond Human
• Conspiracy X^[6]
• Eden Studios Presents (Unisystem)
• Ghosts of Albion Roleplaying Game, based on the Ghosts of Albion property
• Hack!
• Odyssey (d20 system)
• Terra Primate
• CJ Carella's WitchCraft

Books

• Prometheus Unwound, Matt Forbeck (Origins Award winner for Best Game Related Short Work 2001^[7])
• Book of Final Flesh (Origins Award winner for Long Fiction 2003)

Eden Studios released Enemies Archived (2006), a monster manual for Armageddon in PDF and POD produced in conjunction with Misfit Studios.^[8]

See also

• Unisystem, the role-playing game system used in many Eden Studios RPGs

External links

• Eden Studios official website
• Ed Healy recounts birth of Eden Studios
• Interview with M. Alexander Jurkat founding owner of Eden Studios

Notes and References

1. Web site: Licensed to Produce 5 (Interview with M. Alexander Jurkat). Bruno. Mark. GamingReport.com. November 20, 2003. October 10, 2007. dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20071113091452/http://www.gamingreport.com/modules.php?op=modload&name=Sections&file=index&req=viewarticle&artid=87. November 13, 2007.
2. Web site: Ready for an Adventure?. May 23, 2013 .
3. Web site: Origins Award Winners for 2003 . Academy of Adventure Gaming Arts & Design . October 6, 2007 . https://web.archive.org/web/20080106055552/http://www.originsgamefair.com/awards/2002/list-of-winners2 . January 6, 2008 . dead .
4. Web site: Wiegel . Kurt . Game Geeks ep #15 Buffy the Vampire Slayer RPG 2.0 . . October 1, 2007 . Game Geeks Video review of Buffy the Vampire Slayer RPG
5. Web site: Wiegel . Kurt . Game Geeks ep #27 Army of Darkness . . October 1, 2007 . https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211221/guWHdIvngUA . 2021-12-21 . live. Game Geeks Video review of Army of Darkness
6. Web site: Wiegel . Kurt . Game Geeks ep #15 Conspiracy X 2.0 . . October 1, 2007 . Game Geeks Video review of Conspiracy X 2.0
7. Web site: Origins Award Winners for 2001 . Academy of Adventure Gaming Arts & Design . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20080202042430/http://www.originsgamefair.com/awards/2001/list-of-winners . February 2, 2008 .
8. Book: Shannon Appelcline. Designers & Dragons. Mongoose Publishing. 2011. 978-1-907702-58-7.