Nationality American Title Chief creative officer Other names Andy Looney Name Andy Looney | Occupation game designer Role Game designer Employer Looney Labs | |
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Born November 5, 1963 (age 60) ( 1963-11-05 ) Known for Game Designer, Eagle Scout Residence College Park, Maryland, United States Awards Origins Award for Board Game or Expansion of the Year Nominations Origins Award for Card Game of the Year, The Dice Tower Gaming Award for Best Party Game | ||
Organizations founded Looney Labs | ||
Nerdarchy interview with indie game publisher andy looney of looney labs on tabletop day
Andrew J. Looney (born November 5, 1963), better known as Looney or AndyPandy, is an award-winning game designer and computer programmer. He is also a photographer, a cartoonist, a video-blogger and a marijuana-legalization advocate.
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- Nerdarchy interview with indie game publisher andy looney of looney labs on tabletop day
- Back to the future the card game with andy looney at gen con 2010
- Biography
- Patents awards
- Works
- References
Andrew and Kristin Looney together founded the games company Looney Labs, where Andrew is the chief creative officer. Looney Labs has published most of his game designs, such as Fluxx, Chrononauts, and the Icehouse game system. His other game designs include Aquarius, Nanofictionary, IceTowers, Treehouse and Martian Coasters.
Back to the future the card game with andy looney at gen con 2010
Biography
Andrew Looney as a youth became an Eagle Scout. 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.
He and Kristin, his future spouse, met in 1986 when he started at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center as a software programmer. Kristin was a computer engineer designing computer chips. Keeping English as a side interest, he wrote "The Empty City", a science-fiction short story. Wanting a game in the story but feeling a card game as too boring, he created a fictional game, Icehouse, that used pyramids. Readers of the short story requested to learn how to play the game. Thus actual rules were invented for Icehouse, then plastic pyramid pieces were made to play the game. The pieces were made from resin in his apartment, which upset the landlord due to the smell. This led them to launch their own game company to sell the IceHouse game. After several years, Looney shut down Icehouse Games, Inc.
He and his wife launched Looney Laboratories in 1996 as a part time home based design company. Andrew soon designed the Fluxx card game. 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. Aquarius was Andy's and Labs' next game, launched in 1998. In 2002, a few years after Kristin went full time with their company, Andy followed.
Patents & awards
Andy has three U.S. patents and five Origins Awards.
Looney holds patents on the game mechanics for:
IceTowers and Chrononauts:
Looney has won the following game design awards: