Andrew & Kristin Looney – Gaming GoH
Kristin and Andy met while they both worked at NASA, as an Electronics Engineer and Programmer, respectively. They quickly hit it off, and, among their many wacky side projects was a part-time game business. By 1999, they had both “jumped off the cliff,” quitting their day jobs to devote themselves to Looney Labs full-time – Kristin as President, and Andy as Chief Creative Officer. Best known as the inventor of Fluxx, Andy is also the designer of such games as Loonacy, Chrononauts, IceDice, and numerous other games for Looney Pyramids, which he originally created in 1987. Andy is also a writer, a photographer, a cartoonist, a blogger, a hippie, a trekkie, and a geek. While Andy supplies the creative spark, Kristin has built Looney Labs into the successful game company it is today, largely through her business and marketing savvy, but also her amazing rapport with the ever-growing community of Looney Labs fans. Kristin’s earliest claim to fame came at age 16 when she solved a Rubik’s Cube in 35.50 seconds on That’s Incredible, and her enthusiasm for puzzles and games is still going strong.