- Andrew Looney
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footnotes =Andrew J. Looney (born
November 5 ,1963 ), better known as Andy Looney, is an award-winninggame designer and computer programmer.Biography
Looney, his wife Kristin Looney, and Alison Frane together run the games company
Looney Labs ,cite journal
last = West
first = Susan
title = The Looney Labs Experiment
journal =GAMES magazine
publisher = Games Publications
month = October | year = 2005
url=http://www.wunderland.com/LooneyLabs/Press/200510_gamesmag.html ] which has published most of his game designs, such as "Fluxx ", "Chrononauts ", and the "Icehouse" game system.Citation
last = Salen
first = Katie
author-link = Katie Salen
last2 = Zimmerman
first2 = Eric
author2-link = Eric Zimmerman
title =Rules of Play
place= Cambridge, Mass.
publisher =The MIT Press
year = 2003
pages = p. 546
isbn = 978-0-262-24045-1 ]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 theHubble Space Telescope . [http://wunderland.com/WTS/Andy/Andy.html Who is Andrew Looney? ] ] 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
patent s on the game mechanics for "Icehouse ", "IceTowers " and "Chrononauts ":
* [http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect2=PTO1&Sect2=HITOFF&p=1&u=%2Fnetahtml%%2FPTO%%2Fsearch-bool.html&r=1&f=G&l=50&d=PALL&RefSrch=yes&Query=PN%2F4936585 Method of manipulating and interpreting playing pieces] (U.S. Patent 4,936,585)
* [http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect2=PTO1&Sect2=HITOFF&p=1&u=%2Fnetahtml%%2FPTO%%2Fsearch-bool.html&r=1&f=G&l=50&d=PALL&RefSrch=yes&Query=PN%2F6352262 Method of conducting simultaneous gameplay using stackable game pieces] (U.S. Patent 6,352,262)
* [http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect2=PTO1&Sect2=HITOFF&p=1&u=%2Fnetahtml%%2FPTO%%2Fsearch-bool.html&r=1&f=G&l=50&d=PALL&RefSrch=yes&Query=PN%2F6474650 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 " [http://mindgames.us.mensa.org/participant/past_winners.php Mensa Select Past Winners] ]
* 2000 — Origins Award: Best Traditional Card Game for "Chrononauts " [http://www.originsgames.com/awards/2000 Origins Award Winners 2000] ]
* 2000 — Origins Award: Best Abstract Board Game for "Icehouse"
* 2001 — Parents Choice Silver Honors "Chrononauts "
* 2001 — Origins Award: Best Abstract Board Game for "Cosmic Coasters " [http://www.originsgames.com/awards/2001 Origins Award Winners 2001] ]
* 2003 — Parents Choice Silver Honors "Nanofictionary"
* 2005 — Mensa Mind Games: Mensa Select Award for "Zendo" [http://mindgames.us.mensa.org/participant/past_winners.php Mensa Select Past Winners] ]
* 2007 — Origins Award: Best Board Game or Expansion of the Year for "Treehouse" [http://www.originsgames.com/aagad/awards/winners 33rd Annual Origins Award Winners] ]
* 2008 — Origins Award: Best Traditional Card Game of the Year for "Zombie Fluxx " [http://www.originsgamefair.com/aagad 34th Annual Origins Award Winners] ]Works
* "Aquarius"
* "Chrononauts "
* "Cosmic Coasters "
* "Fluxx "
* "Icebreaker"
* "Icehouse" and other games played with theIcehouse pieces :
** "IceTowers "
** "Martian Chess "
* "Nanofictionary "References
External links
* [http://wunderland.com/ Wunderland.com]
* [http://www.looneylabs.com/ Looney Labs homepage]
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