Matt Leacock with the Fastest Prototypes of the West | Episode 197
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Matt Leacock is a board game designer living in Sunnyvale, California. In 2014, he quit his day job to work on board games full time. Before that, he designed games on nights and weekends while working as a user experience designer for a number of Silicon Valley companies. He’s best known for his cooperative games, Pandemic and Forbidden Island, although he enjoys designing all sorts of games.
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Matt Leacock is a board game designer living in Sunnyvale, California. In 2014, he quit his day job to work on board games full time. Before that, he designed games on nights and weekends while working as a user experience designer for a number of Silicon Valley companies. He’s best known for his cooperative games, Pandemic and Forbidden Island, although he enjoys designing all sorts of games.
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