Eric Engelhard Email & Phone Number

Renton, Washington, United States

•Senior Game Designer in Set Design, working on Magic the Gathering, Sep 2021-present.•Senior Game Designer in Competitive Play Design, working on Magic the Gathering, Nov 2020-Aug 2021.

•Designer of 3,000+ individual game pieces for collectible games.•Designer for 20+ media properties, including Marvel, DC, Lord of the Rings, Star Trek, WWE, TMNT, Orville, Pacific Rim, Halo, Gears of War, Street Fighter, Yu-Gi-Oh, DOTA 2, Bioshock, Assassin’s Creed, Portal 2, Godzilla, Dungeons & Dragons, Magic the Gathering, Iron Maiden, and many more.•Creator of 100+ custom collations for various miniatures games, card games, dice games.•Manager of a team of designers for 10+… Show more •Designer of 3,000+ individual game pieces for collectible games.•Designer for 20+ media properties, including Marvel, DC, Lord of the Rings, Star Trek, WWE, TMNT, Orville, Pacific Rim, Halo, Gears of War, Street Fighter, Yu-Gi-Oh, DOTA 2, Bioshock, Assassin’s Creed, Portal 2, Godzilla, Dungeons & Dragons, Magic the Gathering, Iron Maiden, and many more.•Creator of 100+ custom collations for various miniatures games, card games, dice games.•Manager of a team of designers for 10+ years with a perfect on-time design delivery record.•Lead designer of 60+ large HeroClix sets; lead developer on 15+ of them. Member of design or development team on 20+ additional large HeroClix sets and innumerable smaller ones.•Balanced the competitive HeroClix metagame, ensuring it remained fresh yet nothing "broke".•Rewrote, simplified and condensed the HeroClix rulebook, then explained the thinking behind the changes in a 12-article series in 2017.•Trusted by Marvel and DC; under NDA with them for 8+years while designing movie-based sets before their release.•Due to licensor issues, I once had to design an entire 40-figure set by myself in a weekend; it went on to be a best-seller and fan-favorite, and was nominated for an award. Show less

•Designed and oversaw Organized Play events such as the Coming of Galactus and Starro.•Redesigned weekly organized play and maintained a 90% retention rate over the next 6 months.•Managed international HeroClix championships in Mexico, Chile, Australia, Brazil, and more.

•Managed a three-person team in processing and fulfilling thousands of online orders every week.

•Edited and wrote numerous Dungeons & Dragons 3.0 and 3.5-compatible products.•Organized Play Manager for the 1000+ member HackMaster Association.

Master Of Science, Astrophysics

Co-authored two papers in The Astrophysical Journal, one on black hole collapse and one on protoplanetary disk accretion.

Bachelor Of Science (2 Degrees, 3 Majors), Astronomy, Engineering Physics, Math

High School Diploma

IMSA is Illinois's state magnet school for gifted youth.