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Guest of Honor - Tom Lehmann
Tom Lehmann has been playing game since he was a child overseas: "We only owned a couple of games, so one day, I just started inventing my own." Professionally, Tom has been an economist, programmer, and technical writer, as well as a game designer.
In the 90s, Tom started Prism Games to publish boardgames, including Fast Food Franchise, Time Agent, and 2038 (with Jim Hlavaty). He went freelance in the 00s, designing card, dice, and board games for the international market: Pizarro & Co., To Court the King, Jericho, 1846, Phoenicia, Middle Kingdom, and Race for the Galaxy, plus expansions to RFTG, St. Petersburg, and, with Matt Leacock, Pandemic.
Tom has co-written three LARPs and has been roleplaying since 1978, GMing long-running Bushido, Call of Cthulhu, and Legends of the Five Rings campaigns, as well as short adventures in many systems. Tom also enjoys contra dance (he calls and have written 25 dances), travel, scuba-diving, river-rafting, and attending the ballet and theatre.
Guest of Honor - Looney Labs
Andrew Looney - Chief Designer
Andy is the Chief Creative Officer for Looney Labs, and is the designer of Fluxx, Chrononauts, Aquarius, Are You the Traitor?, Treehouse, and Martian Coasters. Andy is also a photographer, a cartoonist, a video-blogger, and a marijuana-legalization advocate. Andy lives with his wife Kristin (and their housemate Alison) somewhere near Washington DC. Andy is a Hippie, a Trekkie, and a Geek. He's been an Eagle Scout and a NASA engineer, he's gotten patents and won awards, he's written a novel, he designed and coded a videogame, and he once watched as his software was launched into space. Andy loves cake.
Kristin Looney - Business Czar
Kristin spent her first 15 years after college working as an Electronics Engineer at NASA and an IT Manager in the aerospace industry - while running a little part-time game business on the side in her spare time. In early 1999 she jumped off the cliff, leaving her day job behind to work full-time running and growing Looney Labs. The games of Looney Labs are available worldwide, in large part due to Kristin's business and marketing savvy. Kristin fosters the large community of 'Mad Lab Rabbits', who are spreading the word of Looney Labs far and wide. Kristin's earliest claim to fame came at age 16 when she solved a Rubik's Cube in 35.50 seconds on the TV show That's Incredible, and her enthusiasm for puzzles and games is still going strong.