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.

 

Guest Links and Info

• leacock.com
• @mattleacock on Twitter

 

Links to episode mentions:

• Proposed guest: Jesse Schell! (Episode 102 if you haven’t checked it out!)
• Recommended books:
  • The Art of Game Design by Jesse Schell
  • A Theory of Fun for Game Design by Raph Koster

 

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Looking forward to reading or hearing from you,

Rob

 

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