Google Tech Talks April, 25 2008 ABSTRACT In February of 2008, Matt Leacock released Pandemic, a board game where players cooperate to save the world from deadly diseases that threaten to wipe out humanity. The game has been enthusiastically received, with its first printing selling out in less than a month. Matt will discuss how being an interaction designer affected the game design process as well as how cooperative games can point to new models for engagement in online systems. Pandemic’s BoardGameGeek page is www.boardgamegeek.com Speaker: Matt Leacock Matt Leacock is a principal designer at Yahoo! Inc. When he’s not designing social platforms and products for Yahoo!, he dabbles in board game design. Matt’s ludography (list of game designs) is here: www.boardgamegeek.com Matt’s work bio is here: www.socialtext.net
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Carcassonne is another great family board game. In fact, Carcassonne is frequently considered a gateway game – a game that’s great to introduce people to more designer or “euro” board games. And we’ll have to admit that the unique play mechanics of Carcassonne was such a new experience for our family that it helped introduce us to many other excellent board games that we’ve added to our collection. Carcassonne is on our top 10 family game list.
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