Professor of Psychology

As a Doctor of Psychology, Vogel was a professor at John F. Kennedy University in Pleasant Hill, California from 2002 to 2021.^[1] Since 2021 he has been a professor in the John F. Kennedy School of Psychology at National University^[2] in Pleasant Hill, California, and since 2023 he has been a professor in the California Northstate University College of Psychology in Rancho Cordova, California.^[3] He is the 2009 winner of the Eugene Benjamin Sagan award for Outstanding Teaching in Psychology.^[4] His research has been published in the Journal of Phenomenological Psychology^{[5] [6]}and The International Journal of Sport Psychology.^[7]

Game Designer

Vogel's game design career began in 2004 with Land of Psymon published by The Creative Therapy Store, a psychotherapeutic game intended to teach children Cognitive behavioral therapy skills by showing them how to defend against psychological monsters ("psymon") that represent negative thinking and common cognitive distortions.^[8] The Spanish edition, El Planeta di los Psimon was published by TEA in 2010.^[9]

He subsequently switched from designing psychotherapeutic board games to tabletop hobby games. To date, his most successful game has been The Dresden Files Cooperative Card Game, which raised over a half-a-million dollars in a Kickstarter campaign. The game won the 2018 Silver ENnie for Best RPG Related Product.^[10] This was produced as part of an ongoing partnership with Evil Hat Productions that has resulted in several releases.^[11]: 323 The Dresden Files has had 5 published expansions,^[12] as well as an electronic version by Hidden Achievement released for Android, IOS, Kindle, Mac, Nintendo Swtich, and Windows.^[13]

His other published games include: Cambria^[14] and Hibernia^[15] published in 2011 by Closet Nerd Games, Romans Go Home^[16] published in 2014 by Lui-Meme, Zeppelin Attack^[17] published in 2014 by Evil Hat Productions, Don't Turn Your Back^[18] published in 2015 by Evil Hat Productions, Kaiju Incorporated^[19] published in 2016 by Evil Hat Productions, Kitara^[20] published in 2020 by Iello, and First Empires^[21] published in 2022 by Sand Castle Games. Kitara won the 2021 UK Games Expo Best New Boardgame American-Style Judge's Award and People's Choice.^[22]