Haber Dasher

“gleefully absurd”

— PC Mag

“…the largest bowler hat I think I’ve ever seen in my life.”

— Rock Paper Shotgun

In Haber Dasher, two players take on the role of an alien named Zorg who is attempting to take over Earth by gaining power among the humans as a businessman. To complete the game, players engage in three stereotypical businessman activities and aim to complete these interactions in the fastest possible time.

Haber Dasher was selected as a finalist for alt.ctrl.GDC 2023.

IN THE NEWS

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RESEARCH FEATURING HABER DASHER

Truesdell, E.J.K. (forthcoming). “‘Pull the Lever, Kronk!’: Mapping Controller Affordances to Collaborative Sense-Making in Play.” Accepted to the 2025 conference on the Foundations of Digital Games (FDG 2025).

Truesdell, E.J.K., and Madera, M. (2024). “Creative Sense-Making Analysis for the Representation of Collaboration in Embodied Play.” In Proceedings of the 2024 IEEE Conference on Games (IEEE CoG 2024). (PDF)

Truesdell, E.J.K., and Magerko, B. (2023). “Three Design Themes for Collaborative Alternative Controllers.” In Proceedings of the 2023 Conference on the Foundations of Digital Games (FDG 2023). (PDF)

HABER DASHER at alt.ctrl.GDC 2023