Jonathon Loucks | loucksj@gmail.com

Game designer and card game expert. Writer, programmer, pianist, amateur theoretical physicist.

Senior Game Designer: Blizzard Entertainment

2022-2024: Hearthstone standard card designer.

Lead Game Designer: Horizon Games

2018-2020: Designed gameplay, launch set, and economy for the SkyWeaver blockchain card game. It was the best blockchain game.

Game Designer: Riot Games

2016-2018: Legends of Runeterra card designer. Bilgewater expansion design lead. Designed new Python scripting engine, recoded sets 1&2 in a week.

Lead Game Designer: Americana Games

2016: Pitch docs and spreadsheets for unreleased mobile pirate MMO. Prototyped combat in Unity C# and studied calculus.

Lead Game Designer: WG Cells / Wargaming

2014-2015: Ported Card Hunter to tablet as Loot & Legends. Redesigned the launch set, coding in visual basic, javascript, and actionscript.

Game Designer: Wizards of the Coast

2013-2014: Modernized the shipping of digital Magic cards. Card designer. R&D playtester. Community cup loser.

Game Designer: Amazon.com

2011-2013: Among the first ten hires of Amazon Game Studios. Eceonomy and gameplay designer on Living Classics, a social click-the-wiggle Facebook game. Game Jam winner.

Game Designer : Microsoft

2010-2011: Economy designer on unreleased Facebook game. Prototyped Kinect games.

Game Designer: Wells Expeditions / Calliope Games

2009-2010: College intern ability designer on Arcane Legions, a tabletop miniatures game. Wrote the technical rules doc.

Game Designer: Matter Group

2007-2009: College intern card designer on Xeko, a card game based on real animals.

File Clerk: First American Title Company

2002-2006: Numerical organization and spatial management.

Education etc.

B.A. Economics: University of Washington

2006-2010: Passed Richard Garfield’s Characteristics of Games class.

Cohost: Limited Resources Podcast

2011-2013: Cohost on popular Magic draft strategy podcast.

Finalist: The Great Designer Search 2

2010: Fifth place in Wizards of the Coast design internship contest.

Writer: tcgplayer.com, channelfireball.com

2006-2010: Rogue decks and tournament reports.