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Professor Qwbli’s Sinister Scheme: The Jason Pine Story

This is the story of a Con Man named Jason Pine. This had originally come to my attention 11 months prior, but I had lost the thread on this and it was stuck in limbo for reasons which will become clear at the end.  Enough time has passed that I think it is okay to …

Archived Memories – An Android: Netrunner Tribute

Fantasy Flight Game's living card game Android: Netrunner was recently discontinued, here is my tribute video I created to honor this great game and the friends I made during my time playing it: Fans of the Netrunner franchise shared some of their personal experiences with Android: Netrunner in light of recent news of support for …

FusionHaa Site News: Current and Future Projects

It's the middle of April, we're now post summer and spring break, and despite a lack of content for the blog things have been happening!  I want to take a few minutes to organize and talk about where we are at and what we are working on as a collective. Fusionhaa-cast First, and most importantly, …

Fusionhaa July Update

Hello friends, Summer pre-gencon gaming has traditionally been slow for updates and news.  Dan and I are working on dramatically improving the audio quality by upping our recording game.  This has unexpectedly delayed us with updates because we're having to learn to use new software and how to get us from the garage to studio-quality. …

FusionHaa-cast Episode 7: Board Games as Video Games? Misprint Misadventures, X-Wing, and Roads & Boats

We talked about Misprints, Video Board Games, and Roads&Boats, and run-on sentences.

FusionHaa-Cast Episode 6: What Happened to Geek Chic? Plus Le Havre, and Duck Dealer

Episode 6 on Soundcloud Show Notes 1. What Happened to Geek Chic? 2. What did we play this week? 3. Seafall and LotR:LCG tangent 4. Duck Dealer Special Geek Chic FusionHaa News 6/13/2017: The End of Geek Chic Duck Dealer Great Western Trail Le Havre Lord of The Rings LCG Arkham Horror: The Card Game …

FusionHaa News 6/13/2017: The End of Geek Chic

**Update** 6/13/2017 3:08pm cst -- Robert Gifford has tweeted the following confirming that Geek Chic is closing shop:     They thought Geek Chic was going to be much bigger than the $30,000 luxury gaming tables they produced for their elite clientele. Many expected them to fail before they even got off of the ground.  How …

Design Diary 6/7/2017: Prototyping Player Aids

Currently working on the components necessary to run a demo scenario.  We decided that the best way to determine if we are on the right track with CLL is to just rush things to a single scenario, blind playtest and then iterate from there. From Game Design Concepts by Ian Schrieber I think this is …

FusionHaa-Cast Episode 5: ANA’s new Alliance, CMON’s MAPP, and Splotter Reprints

Episode 5 on Soundcloud Show Notes 1. What did we play this week? 2. FusionHaa-cast Cup Update 3. Board game News: ANA/Alliance and CMON 4. Kickstarter's we like 5. Community Segment 6. Clay Crucible 7. Splotter Reprints Puzzle Strike The Bird Told Me To Do It Patchwork (literally can't recommend it enough) Indonesia Food Chain …