Available Tuesday night in Appleton and its locations in Green Bay and Sturgeon Bay on Wednesday, you can be among the first in the world to play a new game thanks to Gnome Games and The Gnoshery. Game publisher Looney Labs is releasing its latest edition of the Fluxx card game, this time with a feline tilt. Cat Fluxx is the newest of the 30-plus editions of the game, where the rules can change as the cards are played. According to the manufacturer, Cat Fluxx features cats sleeping on sunbeams, playing with balls of yarn, and squeezing into a cardboard box. It is the latest worldwide release showcased by Head Gnome Pat Fuge and his team at Gnome Games. He says his community outreach efforts are known worldwide, making publishers like Looney Labs interested in working with them. In this case, Fuge says they are working with a Green Bay area animal shelter to ensure game sales during the first week of Cat Fluxx’s release to help cats in the community.

Production issues will delay the game’s worldwide release until later this month. Still, Fuge’s event at a coffee house in Appleton on Tuesday night and the philanthropic efforts behind their promotion of Cat Fluxx allowed them to still release the game at their locations this week. Fuge says having worldwide releases begin at Gnome Games and The Gnoshery is exciting, especially when they can center it around something in the community.