Art/Science Symposium 2022

Matt Leacock, Game Designer 

Matt Leacock has been designing board games full time since 2014. He is best known for his cooperative titles, Pandemic, Pandemic Legacy, and Forbidden Island and he has designed over two dozen titles for the international market. His games have won many international awards and games in the Pandemic line have sold over 5 million copies worldwide. In a prior life he was a user experience designer at Apple, Netscape, AOL, Yahoo!, and the Chief Designer at Sococo. His latest design, Daybreak challenges players to tackle the climate crisis.