ANDREW LOONEY

'Andrew J. Looney' (b. 1963), better known as 'Andy Looney', is an award-winning game designer and computer programmer.

Contents

Biography

Patents & awards

Works

References

External links

Biography

Looney, his wife Kristin, and Alison Frane together run the games company Looney Labs,
The Looney Labs Experiment, , Susan, West, GAMES magazine, which has published most of his game designs, such as ''Fluxx'', ''Chrononauts'', and the ''Icehouse'' game system.^[1]
The three self-described "Modern Hippies" publish the details of their personal and business life every other Thursday at Wunderland.com.
Before Looney and his wife started Looney Labs, they both worked at NASA, where in 1993 some of Looney's software was launched into orbit as part of the repairs to the Hubble Space Telescope.^[2] He then went on to a brief career as a game programmer at Magnet Interactive Studios, where he created that company's only entry to the market, ''Icebreaker''.

Patents & awards

Looney holds patents on the game mechanics for ''Icehouse'', ''IceTowers'' and ''Chrononauts'':

★ Method of manipulating and interpreting playing pieces (U.S. Patent 4,936,585)

★ Method of conducting simultaneous gameplay using stackable game pieces (U.S. Patent 6,352,262)

★ Method of simulation time travel in a card game (U.S. Patent 6,474,650)
Looney has won the following game design awards:

★ 1999 — Mensa Mind Games: Mensa Select Award for ''Fluxx''^[3]

★ 2000 — Origins Award: Best Traditional Card Game for ''Chrononauts''^[4]

★ 2000 — Origins Award: Best Abstract Board Game for ''Icehouse'' ⁴

★ 2001 — Origins Award: Best Abstract Board Game for ''Cosmic Coasters''^[5]

★ 2007 — Origins Award: Board Game or Expansion of the Year for ''Treehouse''^[6]

Works

★ ''Aquarius''

★ ''Chrononauts''

★ ''Cosmic Coasters''

★ ''Fluxx''

★ ''Icebreaker''

★ ''Icehouse'' and other games played with the Icehouse pieces:

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★ ''IceTowers''

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★ ''Martian Chess''

★ ''Nanofictionary''

References

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2. http://wunderland.com/WTS/Andy/Andy.html
3. Mensa Select Past Winners
4. Origins Award Winners 2000
5. Origins Award Winners 2001
6. 33rd Annual Origins Award Winners

External links

★ Wunderland.com

★ Looney Labs homepage

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