Flatlined Games
Company presentation
Flatlined Games is a tabletop games publisher based in Brussels, Belgium.
Founded in 2008 by Eric Hanuise, Flatlined Games publishes and develops board games, role-playing games and other such games, with strong themes and multiple game mechanics, for demanding players as well as simpler games for the wider family audience.
Flatlined Games is a small, indie, one-man-shop run by Eric during evenings and weekends, along his daytime job as consultant.
Niche focus
Flatlined Game's editorial line offers a very wide range of game designs, and focus on market niches that are not flooded with competing products.
Global
We cater to a niche market, but we reckon that that niche is global. Our games are available in many languages, worldwide, through licensing deal with publishing partners.
Crowdfunding and print on demand
We use crowdfunding and print on demand whenever we feel it is pertinent, as this allows us to lower the financial risks involved in publishing games.
About the founder
Eric Hanuise was born in 1969 in Belgium. He has been active in the gaming market for 20 years, organising tournaments and events, playing in various clubs and actively participating in various gaming-related organisations. He decided to turn this hobby in a business in 2007, and took a sabbatical from his consulting business to make a market study leading to his creation of Flatlined Games. After many months spent fighting the 2008 economic crisis, he finally started producing great games.
He likes older and complex games, as well as newer and lighter titles.
Eric plays or has played just about any kind of games, be it roleplaying, LARP, miniatures, wargames, CCG's or boardgames.
He also contributed for a while as writer for Plato magazine, a french speaking magazine dedicted to boardgames and the boardgames industry.
Last but not least, he co-authored "Batt'l Kha'os" wich fellow Belgian author Frederic Moyersoen. Batt'l Kha'os was released in 2007 by Z-Man games.
You may also find Eric on BGG under the nickname 'ehanuise'.
About the name
Flatlined Games is a reference to the brain wave patterns on a EEG display. A dead brain's EEG is said to be 'flat lined', or totally inactive. Our games are highly interactive and tax the player's brains so we named the company just the other way around : Flatlined games.