Richard Launius

Richard Launius spent the majority of his professional career working in various executive positions within the AT&T Advertising & Publishing line of business, retiring as an Executive Director - Information Technology after 32 years of service. After retirement, he now dedicates his full attention to designing games through his company King Richard LLC.

Richard was active in various forms of design even during his career with AT&T. Leaning strongly on his Fine Arts degree, in 1981 Richard designed the uniform the Chicago White Sox wore from 1982 - 1986. Over the years Richard has written published scenarios for the role-playing game Call of Cthulhu, and worked on several computer game designs in the late 1980’s and early 1990s with Interstel and Super Nova Creations, including Scavengers of the Mutant World and Star Legions.

In 1988, Richard’s original Arkham Horror board game design won the Origins HG Wells Best Science Fiction Board Game Award. In 2005 Richard teamed up with Kevin Wilson to redesign the Fantasy Flight Games publication of Arkham Horror. In 2010 Eagle Games published Richard’s epic fantasy game Defenders of the Realm and the Dragons Expansion. Richard and Kevin Wilson recently teamed up again to design Elder Sign, another adventure game set in the mythos of H.P. Lovecraft. Other games in process of publication include a strategic dungeon romp, Dragon Rampage, and the Defenders of the Realm Card Game, both being published by Eagle Games.

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