I’ve pondered Android Netrunner Must Haves before, but didn’t go into much detail about the game itself, or the resources I use to gather information about it. I’ll leave details about the game for another day, but a quick basic before I jump to the meat of this post. I’ve also expanded my Board Gaming in the Canton/Akron Area post to include more information about Netrunner locally.

Android Netrunner is a Living Card Game put out by Fantasy Flight Games. A Living Card Game is sort of like a Collectible Card Game (think Magic the Gathering, Yu-Gi-Oh, etc.) but you don’t have to chase cards as the packs aren’t randomly packed. The core sets, and every expansion pack has the same cards as another core or expansion of the same name. Android: Netrunner is based off the original Netrunner game, designed by Richard Garfield, the guy who created Magic the Gathering, Robo Rally, and King of Tokyo among several others. In it, two players play against one another, one as a corporation who is trying to advance their agendas, the other a runner (Cypberpunk hacker) is trying to steal the corporation’s agendas. The corporation wins if they can force the player to discard more cards then they have in their hand (called flat lining) or by scoring 7 agenda points (each agenda card is worth 2 or more points, but it takes time and money to advance an agenda in order to score it). The Runner wins if they steal 7 points of agendas from the corporation, or if the corporation has to draw a card when they have no more cards to draw (I’ve never heard a game ending that way, but I guess it could happen).

Okay, to the real meat of this post, the who, what and whens of information. This is just a quick list as I need to get to bed, I’ll modify and adjust this as time goes on.
(Updated 28 May, 8:30pm with Card databases and deck building tools)
(Updated 28 May, 10:35pm with more deck building sites… Meteor Decks)
(updated 31 May, 11pm with a missing YouTube one that I thought I had covered as their Twitch and blog are covered)

• Tutorials
  • Android: Netrunner – Complete Tutorial. A YouTube video put out by Fantasy Flight Games. This is a decent quick introduction. It won’t replace reading the rules, but is good as a quick guide (about 20 minutes long).
  • How to Play Android Netrunner: Complete Tutorial. This is put out by a fan of the game. Clocking in a just a little over 46 minutes, this is a long video, but it does a really good job of taking people through most of the rules.
• Wiki and General Information
  • Android: Netrunner Wiki. A Wikia project for Netrunner. Help these people out if you can. Some things I’d like to see…
    • Terms such as
      • Shell Game (and general info on how to build for it)
      • Tag & Bag (and general info on how to build for it)
      • Meta
• Card Information and Deck Building
  • Card Game DB. The standard for most LCG deck building. Good articles. Their deckbuilder can be exported to OCTGN.
  • Meteor Decks – Free Android Netrunner Deck Builder. Another great deck building site and includes the ability to export to OCTGN.
  • Android: Netrunner Card Database.
• Good YouTube Channels
  • Team Covenant. These guys put out some amazing commentary videos. They are must watch for any Netrunner fan.
  • ANR Bad Publicity. Basically a podcast in video form.
  • Apreche. Some commentary videos and a good instrucitonal video on Personal Workshop is good.
  • A Division by Zer0. A channel from the guy who makes the Netrunner plugin for OCTGN (all of which will be discussed in a bit) comments on games he plays.
  • ABRcasts. Another channel devoted to commentary on OCTGN games. He isn’t playing, so we get to see both sides.
  • StimHack. Another channel devoted to OCTGN games. The Asroybal Twitch stream is theirs as is the StimHack blog noted below.
• Twitch Steams (live streaming channels, may or may not be on at any given time).
  • A Division by Zer0. The stream for the guy who made the OCTGN pulgin, videos from this end up on his YouTube channel above.
  • Asroybal. Steams 3 days a week presently.
  • Genestealers. Another streamer.
• Podcasts that I listen to (if I figure out how to link to their iTunes feeds, I will).
  • Agenda 7 (web, Facebook). The default standard in Netrunner podcasts.
  • ANR Breaking News (web, Facebook). Hosted by Team Covenant, this is another popular Netrunner podcast. Can’t go wrong with these two.
  • Netrunomicon (web, Facebook). Only 3 episodes in, and I haven’t actually listened to it yet… 🙂
  • The Ice Box (web). Another one I haven’t actually listened to yet, but have it ready to listen to…
• Online Play
  • To play Netrunner online one needs a free game client called OCTGN.
  • You will need the Netrunner plugin itself.
    • Full forum for the Netrunner plugin
      • Tutorial post this has text and video instructions on installing and using the plugin
    • Github depository for the plugin
    • Division by Zer0’s home page for the plugin (should be revised per his comment below, thanks. 🙂 )
  • The video tutorial can be of use, though it hasn’t been updated for the newest version of the plugin. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nGGECL7nom0
• Finding Players
  • BGG Android: Netrunner Player Finder Geeklist
    • My Canton, Ohio entry on that list…
• Other sources
  • BGG Netrunner Page. Plenty of forums and videos and more.
  • Reddit Netrunner.
  • Netrunner LCG Google + Community. The primary G+ Community for the game.
  • Living Card Games Google + Community. A secondary G+ Community for the game.
  • StimHack. A Netrunner blog.