Andy Looney
Andrew J. Looney | |
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Born | November 5, 1963 |
Nationality | American |
Occupation | Game designer |
Employer | Looney Labs |
Known for |
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Title | Chief creative officer |
Spouse | Kristin (Wunderlich) |
Website | wunderland |
Andrew J. Looney (born November 5, 1963) is a game designer and computer programmer. He is also a photographer, a cartoonist, a video-blogger, and a marijuana-legalization advocate.[1]
Andrew and Kristin Looney together founded the games company
Biography
Andrew Looney as a youth became an Eagle Scout.[1] He entered the University of Maryland at College Park in 1981 as a freshman with an undecided major between English and computer science. He eventually selected computer science.[4]
He and Kristin, his future spouse, met in 1986 when he started at
He and his wife launched Looney Laboratories in 1996 as a part-time home based design company. Andrew soon designed the
Patents & awards
Andy has three U.S. patents and five Origins Awards.[2]
Looney holds patents on the game mechanics for:
- Icehouse– U.S. Patent 4,936,585 - Method of manipulating and interpreting playing pieces
- IceTowers– U.S. Patent 6,352,262 - Method of conducting simultaneous gameplay using stackable game pieces
- Chrononauts – U.S. Patent 6,474,650 - Method of simulation time travel in a card game
Looney has won the following game design awards:
- 1999 – Mensa Mind Games: Mensa Select Award for Fluxx[2]
- 2000 – Origins Award: Best Abstract Board Game for Icehouse: The Martian Chess Set[2]
- Chrononauts
- 2001 – Origins Award: Best Abstract Board Game for Cosmic Coasters[2]
- 2003 – Parents Choice Silver Honors Nanofictionary[7]
- 2007 – Origins Award: Best Board Game or Expansion of the Year for Treehouse[8]
- 2008 – Origins Award: Best Traditional Card Game of the Year for Zombie Fluxx[9]
- Fall 2013 – Parents' Choice Recommended Seal category Games for Fluxx: The Board Game[7]
- Spring 2014 – Parents' Choice FunStuff Award for Loonacy[7]
Works
- Aquarius
- Chrononauts
- Early American Chrononauts
- Cosmic Coasters
- Fluxx
- EcoFluxx
- Family Fluxx
- Zombie Fluxx
- Monty Python Fluxx
- MartianFluxx
- Stoner Fluxx
- Star Fluxx
- Cartoon Network Fluxx
- Regular Show Fluxx
- Adventure Time Fluxx
- Holiday Fluxx
- Cthulhu Fluxx
- Pirate Fluxx
- Oz Fluxx
- Monster Fluxx
- Icebreaker
- Icehouse and other games played with the Icehouse pieces:
- IceTowers
- Martian Chess
- Treehouse
- Zark City
- Nanofictionary
- Proton
- Q*Turn
References
- ^ ISBN 978-1-932442-96-0.
- ^ GAMES magazine. Games Publications.
- ISBN 978-0-262-24045-1.
- ^ a b c d e Barnes, Denise (August 27, 1998). "The Looneys devise a game plan". Washington Times. Retrieved June 18, 2015.
- ^ a b c Ford, C. Benjamin (November 22, 2002). "Looneys working through the serious business of fun". The Gazette. Post Community Media, LLC. Archived from the original on June 17, 2015. Retrieved June 16, 2015.
- ^ "History of Icehouse Games, 1987-1998". wunderland.com. Looney Labs. 1998. Retrieved June 22, 2015.
- ^ a b c "Parents' Choice Award-Winning Company: Looney Labs". Parents-Choice.org. Parents' Choice Foundation. Retrieved June 24, 2015.
- ^ "2007 Origins Award Winners". ICv2. July 9, 2007. Retrieved June 8, 2015.
- ^ 34th Annual Origins Award Winners Archived 2008-04-18 at the Wayback Machine