Matt Leacock
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Matt Leacock | |
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 Matt Leacock at Lucca Comics & Games 2018 | |
| Nationality | American |
| Occupation | Game designer |
| Notable work | Pandemic,Forbidden Island and Forbidden Desert |
Matt Leacock is an American board game designer, most known for cooperative games such as Pandemic, Pandemic Legacy: Season 1, Forbidden Island and Forbidden Desert.[1][2]
Matt designed Pandemic, published in 2008 by Z-Man Games[3]. Leacock had previously worked as a developer of social media[4] and as a user experience designer, primarily in community and communications products[5] for AOL and Yahoo.[6] He switched to designing board games full time in July of 2014. Pandemic Legacy: Season 1, which Leacock co-designed with Rob Daviau, has been rated very highly among board gamers and by the website Board Game Geek on its board game rankings.[7][8] His latest games are Pandemic Fall of Rome and Forbidden Sky (both released in 2018).
Games
- Pandemic (2008)
- Roll Through the Ages: The Bronze Age (2008)
- Forbidden Island (2010)
- Forbidden Desert (2013)
- Pandemic: The Cure (2014)
- Pandemic Legacy: Season 1 (2015)
- Thunderbirds (2015)
- Knit Wit (2016)
- Pandemic: Reign of Cthulhu (2016)
- Pandemic Iberia (2016)
- Chariot Race (2016)
- Space Escape (formerly Mole Rats in Space) (2017)
- Pandemic: Rising Tide (2017)
- Pandemic Legacy: Season 2 (2017)
- Pandemic Fall of Rome (2018)
- Forbidden Sky (2018)
Charity
5% of Matt's royalty for Pandemic products is donated directly to Medecins Sans Frontieres.[9]
References
- ^ "Games". Matt Leacock Games. Retrieved 2017-06-19.
- ^ "Matt Leacock - Game Designer - Profile". About.com Home. Retrieved 2016-04-24.
- ^ https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/30549/pandemic
- ^ https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/w3csww7d
- ^ https://www.leacock.com/about
- ^ Fitzpatrick, Alex (June 30, 2016). "This Board Game Designer Isn't Sorry About Taking a Big Risk". Time Magazine. Retrieved October 29, 2016.
- ^ Duffy, Owen (January 16, 2016). "Pandemic Legacy review: Emotional highs and agonising lows". The Guardian. Retrieved September 29, 2016.
- ^ Anderson, Nate (March 12, 2016). "Pandemic Legacy is the best board game ever—but is it "fun?"". Ars Technica. Retrieved October 1, 2016.
- ^ https://www.leacock.com/about
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