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Matt Leacock

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Sunnyvale
California

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Matt Leacock is a game designer and user experience designer who is probably best known for creating the very popular game Pandemic. He currently heads User Experience at Sococo where he's applying game design techniques to communications software. Prior to Sococo he was an interaction designer at Yahoo!, AOL, Netscape, and Apple.

"I design the games that I want to play and teach. I have a hard time imagining doing game design for a paycheck." -- Matt Leacock

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Website: leacock.com
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Abridged List of Notable Games

2008 Pandemic - awarded Family Game of the Year by Games Magazine, nominated for Spiel des Jahres
2009 Roll Through the Ages: The Bronze Age - awarded Family Game of the Year by Games Magazine
2010 Forbidden Island - awarded Mensa Select + Golden Geek Best Children's Board Game

Interviews

Interview at OrcCon (Podcast) with Boardgame Babylon - 13 Feb 2010
Interview about Forbidden Island with About.com - 4 Feb 2010
Interview with dreamwithboardgames - 23 Mar 2009
Interview with Meepletown - 13 July 2011

Talks

Cooperation and Engagement: What can board games teach us? at Google Tech Talks - 30 Apr 2008

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2	General Creator Forum Matt Leacock to be at Just Awesome Games in SF on Sunday, June 20th at 2:30PM	2010-06-18	cferejohn	0
1	General Creator Forum Microbadge Now Available	2009-04-08	DKahnt	1

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2	Pandemic General How do you guys get into the game?	2012-05-22	youarenot...	10
4	Pandemic Rules Location of Research Stations	2012-05-21	The Broox	10
0	Pandemic General Confused about components size	2012-05-21	matmo	8
0	Pandemic Variants One simple rule that makes the game much better	2012-05-20	Nabukadnezar	4
11	Forbidden Island Variants Hungry canine variant	2012-05-20	debwentworth	3
4	Pandemic Reviews A good cooperative experience	2012-05-20	AcrossThe...	1
2	Forbidden Island Variants One simple rule that makes the game much better	2012-05-20	Nabukadnezar	6
1	Forbidden Island Rules Forbidden Island app 1.1: What's wrong with this picture?	2012-05-19	mathgrant	2
1	Pandemic General Making Pandemic a bit easier...	2012-05-19	splanchnic	14
0	Forbidden Island General How do you keep track of missing tiles?	2012-05-18	elwatoplus	8

Linked Items Relationship: Board Game Artist | Board Game Designer | Podcast Citation | Honored Art | Honored Designs

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Borderlands

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Num Ratings	6
Average Rating	5.50
Average Weight	3.50

Num Owned	17
Prev. Owned	1
For Trade	0
Want in Trade	2

Wishlist	2
Comments	4
Year Published	1995

Forbidden Island

Rank	263
Num Ratings	6819
Average Rating	7.05
Average Weight	1.74

Num Owned	9943
Prev. Owned	431
For Trade	302
Want in Trade	179

Wishlist	1150
Comments	1933
Year Published	2010

Lunatix Loop

Rank	4208
Num Ratings	65
Average Rating	6.29
Average Weight	2.00

Num Owned	64
Prev. Owned	4
For Trade	1
Want in Trade	17

Wishlist	21
Comments	26
Year Published	2000

Pandemic

Rank	42
Num Ratings	20909
Average Rating	7.62
Average Weight	2.35

Num Owned	23828
Prev. Owned	1101
For Trade	424
Want in Trade	484

Wishlist	2866
Comments	5171
Year Published	2008

Pandemic: mini expansion "De Generalist"

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Num Ratings	57
Average Rating	6.77
Average Weight	2.00

Num Owned	88
Prev. Owned	3
For Trade	3
Want in Trade	24

Wishlist	61
Comments	25
Year Published	2009

Pandemic: On the Brink

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Num Ratings	4451
Average Rating	8.15
Average Weight	2.59

Num Owned	9600
Prev. Owned	201
For Trade	71
Want in Trade	368

Wishlist	1198
Comments	1312
Year Published	2009

Power Kitty

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Num Ratings	1
Average Rating	8.00
Average Weight	0.00

Num Owned	2
Prev. Owned	0
For Trade	0
Want in Trade	0

Wishlist	4
Comments	2
Year Published	2009

Roll Through the Ages: The Bronze Age

Rank	258
Num Ratings	5904
Average Rating	7.05
Average Weight	1.79

Num Owned	6262
Prev. Owned	355
For Trade	126
Want in Trade	335

Wishlist	1022
Comments	1672
Year Published	2008

Roll Through the Ages: The Late Bronze Age

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Num Ratings	668
Average Rating	7.48
Average Weight	1.84

Num Owned	988
Prev. Owned	28
For Trade	5
Want in Trade	16

Wishlist	80
Comments	235
Year Published	2009

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19	Board games of Russia REPORT - MEEPLE-2011. Russia, Krasnoyarsk, December, board game exibition. by Ivan Tulovskiy	5
35	Photo Impression of .... Photo Impression of ... Forbidden Island - Verboden Eiland by Henk Rolleman	3
3	BGG Figyelő (HU) Új Pandemic kiegészítő? - és egy kis Vérfoci... by Gergely CZ.	1
61	BoardGameGeek News Links: Awards, Further Pandemic & the Personality of Gamers by W. Eric Martin	19
42	Rick's Adventures in Board Gaming The Bottom Half of my Top 10 Family (Light-Strategy) Games by Rick Baptist	16
9	Rick's Adventures in Board Gaming Gaming Heaven (aka Strategicon!) by Rick Baptist	12
49	Rick's Adventures in Board Gaming The Top Half of my Top 10 Thematic Games by Rick Baptist	11

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Interview at Vecna Medical	http://vecnamed.blogspot.com/2010/10/interview-wit...	2010-10-05
Interview on Ogre Cave	http://ogrecave.com/newsupdate/?p=133	2010-06-15
Interview with Matt Leacock re: Forbidden Island on The Little Metal Dog Show	http://littlemetaldog.wordpress.com/2010/05/31/the...	2010-06-01
thru-the-portal interviews Matt Leacock	http://www.thru-the-portal.com/portal/ezine/thru-t...	2010-05-01
Myriad Games: Session Impressions: Pandemic On the Brink	http://www.pulpgamer.com/myriadgames/134815/myriad...	2009-12-31
DreamWithBoardGames interview with Matt Leacock	http://dreamwithboardgames.blogspot.com/2009/03/in...	2009-12-28
Matt Leacock	http://www.leacock.com/locust/bio	2000-09-06