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American board game designer From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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]
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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 |
| Website | http://www.leacock.com/ |
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, and won The Best Board or Tabletop Game for Impact at the 2024 Games for Change Festival.[11]
According to Leacock, 5% of his design royalty for Pandemic products is donated directly to Medecins Sans Frontieres.[7][12]
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