Android: Netrunner creator loves the fact fans have kept the cancelled LCG alive - and has "considered" designing more cards himself

The creator of cancelled-then rebooted-then cancelled again-then resurrected card game Netrunner has expressed his delight at seeing the game’s community keep it alive - and revealed that he had considered designing some new cards himself. Richard Garfield originally designed Netrunner as a trading card game with randomised booster packs. Released in 1996 - just a few years after Garfield’s Magic: The Gathering revolutionised the idea of a collectible card game - the asymmetric cyberpunk card game couldn’t quite match its acclaimed gameplay with commercial success, and it came to an end just four years later. Over a decade later, Netrunner was relaunched as Android: Netrunner, relocating the card game’s hackers and megacorps from the original’s shared setting with tabletop RPG Cyberpunk 2020 to new publisher Fantasy Flight Games’ own Android universe. The game also switched format, replacing randomised booster packs of cards with expansions with fixed, identical contents as part of FFG’s living card game series. Read more