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. 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. 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 "" (1985), a board game that mixes combat and set collection, for West End Games. 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.