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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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8	Pandemic Sessions On the brink	2012-02-10	sdrewthomson	1
0	Pandemic Variants New Role: Medivac Pilot	2012-02-09	Gtmac	2
12	Forbidden Island Reviews Baker's Boards: Needs a "Lost" Edition	2012-02-07	knatebaker	11
1	Pandemic General Off Night	2012-02-07	edmondella	4
1	Forbidden Island General Game Night	2012-02-07	edmondella	1
0	Pandemic General Anyone play the Contagion soundtrack while they play?	2012-02-03	johnnyLik...	1
0	Pandemic Rules Question about the medic	2012-02-03	johnnyLik...	4
6	Pandemic: On the Brink General Is this worth getting? [Page 1,2]	2012-02-01	johnnyLik...	30
0	Pandemic: On the Brink Rules Field operative - a question	2012-01-31	Ambiance	8
0	Roll Through the Ages: The Late Bronze Age General Solo and smithing	2012-01-27	owll	2

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	248
Num Ratings	5980
Average Rating	7.08
Average Weight	1.73

Num Owned	8798
Prev. Owned	357
For Trade	243
Want in Trade	181

Wishlist	1111
Comments	1751
Year Published	2010

Lunatix Loop

Rank	4081
Num Ratings	65
Average Rating	6.29
Average Weight	2.00

Num Owned	64
Prev. Owned	4
For Trade	2
Want in Trade	17

Wishlist	21
Comments	26
Year Published	2000

Pandemic

Rank	38
Num Ratings	19723
Average Rating	7.63
Average Weight	2.34

Num Owned	22189
Prev. Owned	991
For Trade	385
Want in Trade	464

Wishlist	2764
Comments	4973
Year Published	2008

Pandemic: mini expansion "De Generalist"

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Average Rating	6.90
Average Weight	2.00

Num Owned	81
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For Trade	1
Want in Trade	23

Wishlist	60
Comments	22
Year Published	2009

Pandemic: On the Brink

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Num Ratings	4082
Average Rating	8.17
Average Weight	2.55

Num Owned	8801
Prev. Owned	172
For Trade	69
Want in Trade	359

Wishlist	1159
Comments	1235
Year Published	2009

Power Kitty

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Num Ratings	1
Average Rating	8.00
Average Weight	0.00

Num Owned	1
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For Trade	0
Want in Trade	0

Wishlist	4
Comments	2
Year Published	2009

Roll Through the Ages: The Bronze Age

Rank	251
Num Ratings	5585
Average Rating	7.05
Average Weight	1.80

Num Owned	5898
Prev. Owned	320
For Trade	119
Want in Trade	300

Wishlist	998
Comments	1600
Year Published	2008

Roll Through the Ages: The Late Bronze Age

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Num Ratings	623
Average Rating	7.49
Average Weight	1.84

Num Owned	929
Prev. Owned	24
For Trade	4
Want in Trade	16

Wishlist	75
Comments	212
Year Published	2009

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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
41	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
47	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