[1]: 188 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.
[1]: 188 Additionally, Allen Varney of Dragon Magazine claimed Olotka mentioned the idea of creating a collectible card game as early as 1979.
[2] Cosmic Encounter Online, a Flash version of Eon's original game, was released in 2003.
The year before, Eberle, Kittredge, and Olotka had designed Star Trek: The Enterprise 4 Encounter (1985), a board game that mixes combat and set collection, for West End Games.
[1]: 189 The trio also designed the 1979 Dune board game set in Frank Herbert's fantasy novels.