Eric B. Vogel

Eric B. Vogel is a clinical psychologist, a professor of psychology, and a game designer.

Eric B. Vogel
NationalityAmerican
OccupationGame designer

Career

Professor of Psychology

As a Doctor of Psychology, Vogel teaches at John F. Kennedy University in Pleasant Hill, California. He is the 2009 winner of the Eugene Benjamin Sagan award for Outstanding Teaching in Psychology.[1]

Game Designer

Vogel's game design career began in 2004 with Land of Psymon, a psychotherepeutic game intended to teach children Cognitive behavioral therapy skills by showing them how to defend against psychological monsters ("psymon") that represent negative thinking and common cognitive distortions.[2]

In 2008, with the Cambria board game produced by Sandstorm Productions, Vogel began producing more mass-market releases.[3]:397 To date, his most successful has been The Dresden Files Cooperative Card Game, which raised over a half-a-million dollars in a Kickstarter campaign.[4] This was produced as part of an ongoing partnership with Evil Hat Productions that has resulted in several releases.[3]:323

References
  1. "Eric B. Vogel, Psy.D." Archived from the original on January 31, 2019.
  2. Eric B. Vogel (2004), Land of Psymon, WPS The Creative Therapy Store
  3. Shannon Appelcline (2014). Designers & Dragons: The '00s. Evil Hat Productions. ISBN 978-1-61317-087-8.
  4. "The Dresden Files Cooperative Card Game". Archived from the original on October 26, 2018.


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