American game designer
Owen Seyler | |
|---|---|
| Nationality | American |
| Occupation(s) | Game designer, later Event planner |
Owen M. Seyler is a former game designer who worked primarily on role-playing games.
Owen Seyler: Game Designer to Event Planner
Owen Seyler is a former game designer known for his work on role-playing games like Aria: Canticle of the Monomyth and Star Trek: The Next Generation. He co-founded Last Unicorn Games and later worked at Wizards of the Coast and Upper Deck before transitioning to event planning.
Career
Owen Seyler and Christian Moore had both graduated college recently when they were roommates in 1994 in Philadelphia. : 314 Moore and Seyler formed the game company Last Unicorn Games with Greg Ormand and Bernie Cahill to publish a game that Moore was working on, Aria: Canticle of the Monomyth (1994). : 314 Moore and Seyler with recent hire Ross Isaacs began the initial work to create the "Icon" system for the Star Trek: The Next Generation Role-playing Game (1998). : 315 Moore was a long-time friend of Peter Adkison, and when Last Unicorn was having financial troubles, Wizards of the Coast purchased the company in July 2000. : 316 Seyler still worked at Last Unicorn when Decipher, Inc. purchased the company in 2001. : 317 Moore and Seyler were later hired by Upper Deck. : 318
After leaving the gaming industry, he became an event planner.