Matt Leacock

Matt Leacock is a Board game designer, most known for cooperative games such as Pandemic, Pandemic Legacy: Season 1, Forbidden Island and Forbidden Desert.[1][2]

In 2014, Leacock left a career in Silicon Valley, where he had worked for AOL and Yahoo, to design board games full-time.[3] 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.[4][5] His latest games are Pandemic Fall of Rome and Forbidden Sky (both to be released in 2018).

Games

References

  1. "Games". Matt Leacock Games. Retrieved 2017-06-19.
  2. "Matt Leacock - Game Designer - Profile". About.com Home. Retrieved 2016-04-24.
  3. Fitzpatrick, Alex (June 30, 2016). "This Board Game Designer Isn't Sorry About Taking a Big Risk". Time Magazine. Retrieved October 29, 2016.
  4. Duffy, Owen (January 16, 2016). "Pandemic Legacy review: Emotional highs and agonising lows". The Guardian. Retrieved September 29, 2016.
  5. Anderson, Nate (March 12, 2016). "Pandemic Legacy is the best board game ever—but is it "fun?"". ars technica. Retrieved October 1, 2016.


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