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Matt Leacock

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Matt Leacock is a game designer who is best known for cooperative games, including Pandemic, Forbidden Island, Pandemic Legacy: Season 1, and Daybreak. He has been designing games full time since 2014. Prior to that he was a user experience designer at Sococo, Yahoo!, AOL, Netscape, and Apple. His name is pronounced "Matt LEE-cock" "I design the games that I want to play and teach. I have a hard time imagining…

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doing game design for a paycheck." -- Matt Leacock Microbadge: - Matt Leacock fan Notable Awards and Achievements 2008 Pandemic - awarded Family Game of the Year by Games Magazine, nominated for Spiel des Jahres 2009 Roll Through the Ages: The Bronze Age - awarded Family Game of the Year by Games Magazine, nominated for Spiel des Jahres 2010 Forbidden Island - awarded Mensa Select + Golden Geek Best Children's Board Game, nominated for Spiel des Jahres 2013 Forbidden Desert - awarded Mensa Select + Golden Geek Best Children's Board game 2016 Pandemic Legacy: Season 1 - nominated for the Kennerspiel des Jahres 2018 Pandemic Legacy: Season 2 - awarded the SdJ Special Prize 2022 Pandemic - inducted to The Academy of Adventure Gaming Arts & Design Hall of Fame 2024 Daybreak - awarded the Kennerspiel des Jahres 2024 Pandemic - entered the BGG Hall of Fame 2024 Matt Leacock - inducted to The Academy of Adventure Gaming Arts & Design Hall of Fame

Biography and credits from BoardGameGeek.