@marclariviere.bsky.social
(he-him) Board game designer of Very Bad Lands. That's it for now.
Problem solved!
12.10.2025 12:03 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Either I find the title of the game I'm working on immediately, or I never quite find it. 🎲✂️
This one is the latter, unfortunately.
It's a dexterity game #✂️🎲
26.09.2025 20:30 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Would you also enjoy playing as Goliath?
08.06.2025 17:02 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
I'm working on a team-based game where you can create unfair matchups:
1v2 2v3 1v3 1v4!
In playtesting, the imbalance adds tension and drama, but will most players want to play against the odds?
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Are only snake-type creatures allowed?
29.04.2025 15:48 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 2 📌 0🎲✂️I was taught that less is more. It's not always the rule in game design, but efficiency is fun for me so I stick with it!
I’ve made a game with so few components that if I sold it in a box, it might not look like it’s worth much. Would you add things to a game just to boost its perceived value?
At the end of May I'll no longer work for Underdog Games.
The owner is shrinking the company to almost nothing to give it the best chance of keeping the lights on during the tariff tsunami.
It won't need new games (I manage our design studio, and design myself), so I'm done.
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It's your turn to play!
You’ve got a choice: play the optimal move or play the most exciting one. Which would you choose?
My first designer diary is out on BGG :)
#verybadlands 🎲✂️
Découvrez mon top5 sur la chaîne du Bureau du loisir. Et surtout, découvrez le bureau du loisir ♥️
#j2s
Quacks of Quedlinburg new artwork
I want more board games in my collection to feel creative, fun, and different.
Board game art can often feel familiar to the point it's genuinely hard to see the differences between games through the box cover alone. It sort of blends together.
Say what you want, Quacks definitely stands out.
One of the things I love about being a game designer is that I can often step away from my computer to do arts and crafts!
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Intriguing achievements that hint at what they cannot yet see?
13.03.2025 16:11 — 👍 7 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Coming back from Cannes, I am at the end of a design cycle. Which means, looking at my backlog of prototypes and seeing if one of them sparks joy!
This one is a fishing card game about discovering the strange aquatic life that lies beneath the surface of a subterranean lake.
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screenshot of comments in the Roll or Stand: Jurassic Adventures kickstarter campaign Me: Game looks very fun! Thank you for using real art in the game - seeing that pushed me over to back! Pio Games (publisher): Thank you so much for your support, Suzanne! It means a lot to us to hear that the handmade art resonated with you so deeply.
artwork section from the Roll or Stand - Jurassic Adventures campaign The game features 12 unique puzzles, each thematically tied to a cinematic scene depicted in original artwork by Yayoi Jankowski. Each piece is created by hand on paper using traditional drawing and watercolor techniques.
Just as we should let publishers know we do NOT want genAI "art" in our #BoardGames... we should let them know when we appreciate that they're NOT using genAI and support that financially when we can.
05.03.2025 23:21 — 👍 78 🔁 4 💬 1 📌 0Looks fun! Let us know when it's up!
05.03.2025 14:31 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
My little dinos are growing up! #fij25 #verybadlands
02.03.2025 08:32 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
I’ll be at Cannes International Games Festival this week demoing Very Bad Lands, my very first game!
24.02.2025 21:19 — 👍 6 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
I’ll be at Festival International des Jeux de Cannes next week! Excited to dive back into live dinosaur drawing! Come find me if you’re there.
#boardgames #FIJ2025 #cannes
Clean lines. mad mind!
20.02.2025 15:07 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Someday, someone will find my notebooks and conclude that I was mad. 🎲✂️
#boardgames #terreferme
The goal of Picture Perfect is simple and relatable: take the perfect picture of this family, but keep everyone's petty preferences in mind!
A great reminder that there's a lot of fun to be found around the actual mechanics of the game.
#boardgames #pictureperfect
New video out today - chatting about how I decide what ideas to work on for new games and why!
youtu.be/E54gkTqQv9Q
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Variant human holding a trash accelerator and accompanied by a mini mule bot. Also featured some of their gear.
Variant human character for my game Orbital Megastructure.
06.02.2025 00:50 — 👍 238 🔁 38 💬 14 📌 0Great art doesn't age. I loved the art of The Lost Expedition so much, Garen was one of the first people I reached out to for an interview on my board game art website back in 2017.
www.moregamesplease.com/art-in-board...
Losing a race makes your dog hungry for more. Winning a race makes your dog cocky. Is that the right word cocky?
#boardgames #underdogs
I feel like creating a strong sense of place for these levels really adds to the experience. Drawing your house on a beautiful spot is way more enjoyable than on a blank, featureless landscape. 🎲✂️
#boardgames #erreferme #boardgames #soloboardgames #workerplacement
A picture of the front page of the Always Awake Games store with Out of Sorts and Hedged In available for preorder
The store’s finally up and running, so Out of Sorts and Hedged In are ready for preorder! So if you missed them at the night market, now’s your chance! They should be shipping out by the end of January.
always-awake-games.square.site
Love the art!
31.01.2025 00:52 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
What an ongoing illustration project looks like!
29.01.2025 13:59 — 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
