Matt Leacock

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Rob Daviau (left) and Matt Leacock at the book signing at the stand with their game Pandemic Legacy at the international game days SPIEL 2016 in Essen

Matt Leacock (born 1971 in St. Paul , Minnesota ) is an American game writer best known for developing the Pandemic game .

biography

Matt Leacock began developing individual games in the 1990s. The first published game was Borderlands in 1995. In 2008 he published a dice game version In the Changing Times - The Dice Game - Bronze Age of the Successful Game In The Changing Times of Vlaada Chvátil , and on the other hand the very successful cooperative board game Pandemic , to which in the Several additions appeared in the following years. Both Pandemic and In the Changing Times - The Dice Game - Bronze Age were nominated for Game of the Year in their German-language version , as was Die Forbidden Island, developed in 2010 . In 2013, Leakey developed The Forgotten City, a sequel to The Forbidden Island , and other versions of the pandemic series were also released . In 2015, Leakey worked with former Hasbro employee Rob Daviau to integrate the concept of legacy games he developed into the Pandemic series, as a result of which they jointly released Pandemic Legacy (Season 1) . Pandemic Legacy (Season 1) was nominated for the Kennerspiel des Jahres as well as for the German Games Award and for the Gamers Choice Awards.

Ludography (selection)

Matt Leacock developed numerous board games and, in particular, several additions to the successful game Pandemic :

Awards

Several Matt Leacock games have been nominated or won various game awards:

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personal data
SURNAME Leacock, Matt
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American game designer
DATE OF BIRTH 1971
PLACE OF BIRTH St. Paul , Minnesota