Erik A. Dewey PhD

Erik’s corner of the internet

I want to
make things
better.

Writer, game designer, and educational psychologist. I help kids learn through games, help people bring order to their lives, and try to encourage us all to be a little nicer to one another.

Erik A. Dewey Est. 1996 · Broken Arrow, OK

Blessed with a beautiful wife and two fabulous children, I’ve been writing most of my life and published since 1996. Along the way I picked up a degree in Marketing, an MBA, and finally a PhD in Educational Psychology — where I study how games help people learn. This is where all of it lives: the books, the tools, the talks, and a closet full of board games (most of them in English).

The flagship

The Big Book of Everything

In a nutshell, it is a notebook filled with all of the information anyone could possibly need to know about you. On rare occasions, other people need this information — and no one knows how to get it. That’s where the Big Book comes in.

Free, and downloaded around the world for over a decade — now reborn as a private, offline app that fills in the book for you and never leaves your computer.

Open the Big Book
Erik A. Dewey Broken Arrow, Oklahoma

The short version

A scholar who never stopped making things

Born in St. Petersburg, Florida — and whisked off to the coast of Maine about two weeks later. Twenty years a business-systems analyst, a PhD earned out of pure conviction, ten books, a viral free tool, and nearly two decades co-hosting a board-game podcast. I met my wife at a court-ordered Defensive Driving class, and I’m still convinced that was the best wrong turn I ever took.

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Family strength and identity are important to me — and game play is how we build it.