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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.
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.




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:

Icehouse – U.S. Patent 4,936,585 - Method of manipulating and interpreting playing pieces
https://patents.google.com/patent/US4936585A
IceTowers – U.S. Patent 6,352,262 - Method of conducting simultaneous gameplay using stackable game pieces
https://patents.google.com/patent/US6352262B1
Chrononauts – U.S. Patent 6,474,650 - Method of simulation time travel in a card game
https://patents.google.com/patent/US6474650B1
Looney has won the following game design awards:

1999 – Mensa Mind Games: Mensa Select Award for Fluxx
2000 – Origins Award: Best Abstract Board Game for Icehouse: The Martian Chess Set
Chrononauts
2000 – Origins Award: Best Traditional Card Game
2001 – Parents Choice Silver Honors
2001 – Origins Award: Best Abstract Board Game for Cosmic Coasters
2003 – Parents Choice Silver Honors Nanofictionary
2007 – Origins Award: Best Board Game or Expansion of the Year for Treehouse
2008 – Origins Award: Best Traditional Card Game of the Year for Zombie Fluxx
Fall 2013 – Parents' Choice Recommended Seal category Games for Fluxx: The Board Game
Spring 2014 – Parents' Choice FunStuff Award for Loonacy




Works



Aquarius
Chrononauts
Early American Chrononauts
Cosmic Coasters
Fluxx
EcoFluxx
Family Fluxx
Zombie Fluxx
Monty Python Fluxx
Martian Fluxx
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




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