Matt Leacock | |
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Nationality | American |
Occupation | Game designer |
Notable work | Pandemic, Forbidden Island and Forbidden Desert |
Website | http://www.leacock.com/ |
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]
Leacock grew up in Long Lake, Minnesota. [3] He studied visual communication at Northern Illinois University. [4]
Matt designed Pandemic, published in 2008 by Z-Man Games. [5] Leacock had previously worked as a developer of social media [6] and as a user experience designer, primarily in community and communications products [7] for AOL and Yahoo. [8] He switched to designing board games full time in July 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. [9] [10] His latest game, Daybreak is about climate change. [11]
According to Leacock, 5% of his design royalty for Pandemic products is donated directly to Medecins Sans Frontieres. [7] [12]
Matt Leacock | |
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Nationality | American |
Occupation | Game designer |
Notable work | Pandemic, Forbidden Island and Forbidden Desert |
Website | http://www.leacock.com/ |
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]
Leacock grew up in Long Lake, Minnesota. [3] He studied visual communication at Northern Illinois University. [4]
Matt designed Pandemic, published in 2008 by Z-Man Games. [5] Leacock had previously worked as a developer of social media [6] and as a user experience designer, primarily in community and communications products [7] for AOL and Yahoo. [8] He switched to designing board games full time in July 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. [9] [10] His latest game, Daybreak is about climate change. [11]
According to Leacock, 5% of his design royalty for Pandemic products is donated directly to Medecins Sans Frontieres. [7] [12]