Andrew Looney

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name = Andrew J. Looney


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other_names = Andy Looney
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Andrew J. Looney (born November 5, 1963), better known as Andy Looney, is an award-winning game 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 the Hubble 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 patents 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 the Icehouse pieces:
** "IceTowers"
** "Martian Chess"
* "Nanofictionary"

References

External links

* [http://wunderland.com/ Wunderland.com]
* [http://www.looneylabs.com/ Looney Labs homepage]
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