John Cooper
An American board game designer. He lives in Greenbelt, Maryland, and is a former NASA engineer. Since around 2000 he has been developing games with Kory Heath and the circle around Looney Labs. Homeworlds (2002), a pyramid game, is an early signature work. The Gang (2024), co-designed with Kory Heath, re-read Texas hold'em as a cooperative game, and won the Casual Games category of the American Tabletop Awards 2025. His hallmark is repurposing the structure of an existing game form.