On April 25, Pandemic designer Matt Leacock gave a talk at Google in
Mountain View, CA . The talk was recorded, and has now been posted on
YouTube. You can watch it at
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cdTVcFo2EQw
The talk was mostly about boardgame design, and the title was
""Cooperation and Engagement: What can board games teach us?". Here is
the talk's abstract:
In February of 2008, Matt Leacock released Pandemic, a board game
where players cooperate to save the world from deadly diseases that
threaten to wipe out humanity. The game has been enthusiastically
received, with its first printing selling out in less than a month.
Matt will discuss how being an interaction designer affected the game
design process as well as how cooperative games can point to new
models for engagement in online systems.
