Matt Leacock

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So sorry to hear that you've been so sick! A few years back I binged a big batch of short stories from by Ted Chiang and George Saunders. If you haven't read them, Exhalation, Stories of Your Life, Liberation Day, and Tenth of December area all great.

sending hugs ❤️

thanks!

Awesome! Good luck!

Rhado calls The Four Doors "A miracle of design." @mattleacock.bsky.social

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Leacock’s Lab: Animal Rescue Team Now Available, Trip Report, and More Plus: Spiel Essen and DAU Report, Animal Rescue Team Design Journal, Daybreak Returns to Public Radio, and more

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when I worked on This Guilty Land, and immersed myself in antebellum primary documents, the thing that really struck me is how incrementalism today is just the same shit it was then, responding to the same kind of bad faith arguments by evil fuckers, & treating real change as impossible & infantile.

How to solve the climate crisis in 60-90 minutes — Outside/In Can a board game about the climate crisis really make for a good Friday night with your friends?

Outside/In from New Hampshire Public Radio aired a wonderful episode about Daybreak yesterday.

Not going to spoil whether they won or not!

We were happy to join the first Sun Day day of action at San Jose City Hall today. Hope and expect this day to become bigger and bigger each year.

You must have been less than 10 feet away from us!

organizers speak outside San Jose City Hall for Sun Day 2025

OMG, you were there? Sorry we missed you!

Got your email—I'll be in touch!

Leacock’s Lab: September 2025 Update Upcoming releases and appearances, trivia results, our trip to Middle Earth, and more

My September update is up! New and upcoming release info, appearances, trivia results, our trip to Middle Earth, and more. This is also a great time to subscribe if you haven't yet.

I try to keep my feed mostly positive, but this is worth a read.

My plea to you is to get involved locally, not just in yelling into the void but in building community. Human connection is (hopefully) one way through. We are so much better than all of this.

Great to hear. Yes, very happy! Thanks!

It's only been 21 minutes! (Try again?)

Good luck with the game. Wish I could join you! And thanks again for playtesting.

Good luck!

Impressive. Off the top of my head, you might consider multiplying the costs for global projects and crisis mitigation by 1.5x the 4-player game cost. I'm not sure how you'd encode that simply in your set, though.

Love it. Glad you enjoyed the game!

My daughter and I played The Four Doors designed by @mattleacock.bsky.social and published by @happycampergames.bsky.social. The first was phenomenally good. I can’t wait to play more.

Awesome. Good luck!

It's complicated.

I mean, of course, yes.

But also, no – I think that's a real exhibit.
And who decides what's worthy of classification?

I love this so much.

Thanks Rick! It was a lot of fun to put together.

Thanks Johnny. That was a lot of fun to put together.

Lord of the Rings: Fate of the Fellowship – Design Diary — Matt Leacock Games Origins The Lord of the Rings: Fate of the Fellowship has been a long time coming. Its roots can be found in my earliest attempts at game design and my love of Tolkien. My Uncle Pat introduced me ...

I’ve just posted my full design diary for The Lord of the Rings: Fate of the Fellowship on my blog. Lots of goodies including some time-lapse videos and some goofy bonus materials including a Middle Earth Tube Map.