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Maëlig

@maelig.bsky.social
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Web developer and boardgame designer (Ironwood). He/him. I post in English and occasionally in French.

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Clayton @explorersdesign.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
Public Domain Art is the lifeblood of small tabletop rpgs, but it can be a nightmare trying to find the right art and license. This week, I’ve re-uploaded my old list from 2020 (with updates) of public domain websites. That's 500,000+ public domain paintings, photos, maps, and film. Link below 🔗👇
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Frankie Huang 黄碧赤 @ourobororoboruo.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
Welp there’s no unseeing this
Colorful play gym for infants featuring foxes and bunnies, two criss-crossing archs stand over a square matUFC cage being built on the White House launch, criss-crossing arches strongly resembling the baby play gym
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🐜 🍯 Anthony @anthonybecker.bsky.social · 25/04/2026
Orb falls on wizard’s face in bed, like a phone
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W. Eric Martin @wericmartin.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
Board Game Beat just opened! There's a bunch of content there already, and I'll be posting more throughout the week...including Spielwarenmesse coverage, a survey, and a video. Thanks so much for all your support!
Text-only promotion for Board Game Beat listing www.wericmartin.com/follow for fediverse links.
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depths of wikipedia @depthsofwikipedia.bsky.social · 20/01/2026
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Maëlig @maelig.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
I've just completed the survey. This resource was invaluable to me when negotiating my first contract !
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Le Monde @lemonde.fr · 04/01/2026
Le retour de l’impérialisme prédateur des États-Unis
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Le retour de l’impérialisme prédateur des États-Unis
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Matthew Dunstan @matthewdunstan.bsky.social · 31/12/2025
My final video for 2025 compiles the lessons I learnt about games design this year, from rethinking how I work, what I want to design, and the people who I couldn't have done without. Thank you everyone who has supported the channel this year, and have a wonderful 2026! youtu.be/62zLZONQc4Q 🎲✂️
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Game Design Lessons from 2025
YouTube video by Matthew Dunstan
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Charles Louis Richter @richterscale.bsky.social · 10/12/2025
SKULL OF THOMAS AQUINAS: TAKE A LEFT NOW PRIEST: No, the GPS says we have to keep going— SKULL: I KNOW A SHORTCUT PRIEST: Do you remember the last ti— SKULL: FOR THOSE WITH FAITH, NO EVIDENCE IS NECESSARY; FOR THOSE WITHOUT IT, NO EVIDENCE WILL SUFFICE
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Maëlig @maelig.bsky.social · 06/12/2025
Now do a football Nobel prize
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Emily Herring @emilyherring.bsky.social · 17/11/2025
This from @davidbatherwoods.bsky.social's biography of Schopenhauer is sending me
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Maëlig @maelig.bsky.social · 30/11/2025
Played a couple games of The Old King's Crown this week after receiving my copy. We had a blast, @theoldkingscrown.bsky.social have crafted something truly special.
The boardgame The Old King's Crown laid out on a tableThe boardgame The Old King's Crown laid out on a table
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Charles Johnson @charles.littlegreenfootballs.com · 25/11/2025
i’m not crying you’re crying xkcd: Fifteen Years
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Fifteen Years
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jason grinblat @jfg.land · 16/11/2025
Checkbox: I agree to Extreme Pizza
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Maëlig @maelig.bsky.social · 16/11/2025
Netrunner Race for the Galaxy Ra Imperium Classics/Legends Dune Imperium Wizards of the Grimoire Res Arcana Unmatched Fantasy Realms Just one
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Flora ΘΔ @florastarlight.bsky.social · 12/11/2025
🎮the people are celebrating the invention of a "steam machine." the year is 1804.
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Ambroise Garel @ambroisegarel.com · 10/11/2025
(et bien sûr, un Nutriscore TOTAL) linsolithe.ghost.io/proposition-...
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Proposition scientifique de Nutriscore universel
⬤ Édition gibbeuse : pleine lune du 7 septembre 2025 Par Ambroise Garel Le Nutriscore, il n'est plus permis d'en douter, a été l'un des grands succès de santé publique de ces dernières années. ...
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Classical Studies Memes for Hellenistic Teens @csmfht.bsky.social · 08/11/2025
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Maëlig @maelig.bsky.social · 07/11/2025
2 Clowdus game reviews in a week ? What a treat
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Maëlig @maelig.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
I didn't realise @weirdmedieval.bsky.social had a podcast ! Started listening from the beginning, excellent stuff
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brendan mordheim @brendanmcleod.dev · 04/11/2025
being a tabletop designer means sometimes you find an Untitled Spreadsheet and inside is just the numbers 1 to 100 in order
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Maëlig @maelig.bsky.social · 27/10/2025
Back from a very intense couple days in Essen. Didn't even get to demo a single game 😅
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CaptainKlutz @captainklutz.bsky.social · 24/10/2025
Pubblo (selling themselves as a way for designers to meet publishers) is running a competition to coincide with SPIEL 25- if you sign up, you get free access to the site for the rest of 2025. Not sponsored, I'm just making sure the people who couldn't make it here know 🎲✂️ pubblo.com/spielpitch
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Pubblo - A digital marketplace connecting the board game industry
Powering licensing deals in the board game industry. Connect designers, publishers, and distributors worldwide with standardized pitches and streamlined workflows.
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Maëlig @maelig.bsky.social · 21/10/2025
My little pumpkins are appropriately scary now that they have started rotting from the inside
2 carved pumpkins with mold coming out of their orifices
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Marceline Leiman is Racing Dinos @marcelineleiman.bsky.social · 07/10/2025
This presentation by Jonas Tyroller absolutely applies to boardgame pitching as well. 🎲✂️ Mechanisms aren’t what sell games. Focusing solely on “hooks” can distract you from what’s most important: making an appealing game that’s scoped appropriately (for its size/weight/gameplay, what have you)
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What Sells on Steam: You Don't Need a Hook
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The Daily Show @thedailyshow.com · 09/10/2025
The following is REAL footage from Portland, 2025. Viewer discretion is advised.
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Randy Flynn @rf-seattle.bsky.social · 07/10/2025
This is REALLY worth a read! It avoids getting stuck on some quick surface level problems with AI art and gets to the heart of things. theoatmeal.com/comics/ai_art
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A cartoonist's review of AI art - The Oatmeal
This is a comic about AI art.
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bonimenteurfr.bsky.social @bonimenteurfr.bsky.social · 06/10/2025
Cet extrait vient de Groland. Mais quand tu compares avec la réalité, tu ne vois presque plus de différence sur ces histoires de remaniement et de nouveau gouvernement.
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Maëlig @maelig.bsky.social · 06/10/2025
Played a classic last night
The boardgame El Grande (1995 edition) laid out on a table
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Maëlig @maelig.bsky.social · 05/10/2025
Well-deserved praises for @theoldkingscrown.bsky.social I've had the chance to playtest the game during its development and it's a real banger.
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Dan Thurot @danthurot.bsky.social · 01/10/2025
For today's article, I'm just griping about why "fun" is a bad word for critics. spacebiff.com/2025/09/30/a...
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Anti-Fun
There’s one word I try to never use when writing about board games. The F-word. No, not that one. “Fun.” There it is. My critical curse word. Today I want to talk about why “fun” isn’t an especiall…
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Maëlig @maelig.bsky.social · 01/10/2025
xkcd's what if? has a YouTube channel and I somehow only discovered it ? Excellent stuff ! youtube.com/@xkcd_whatif
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xkcd's What If?
What If? The Video Series is the official adaptation of the 'What If?' books by Randall Munroe (xkcd.com) and is produced by Neptune Studios LLC
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doleful moo of a cow @oulipien.bsky.social · 26/09/2025
I want a tank. Any tank. But my wife told menit is stupid nad expensive and I am not a childe. She only investing in realestate.
So I find a plot in forest with beautiful view.
She loved it and convinced to buy it. She dosent know that i have made researach about this plot. There is buried a tank from second world war (Yes im genius) greetings from Poland
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Théo Rivière @theosacha.bsky.social · 23/09/2025
If you're a non-french speaking designer and you want to meet with @spiraleditions.bsky.social during Essen, send me a DM :)
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depths of wikipedia @depthsofwikipedia.bsky.social · 22/09/2025
imagine if a family of beavers randomly showed up right now and finished whatever thing you've been putting off
In early 2025, beaver activity in the Brdy Protected Landscape Area, Czech Republic, contributed to the restoration of a wetland ecosystem. A family of beavers constructed a series of dams that coincidentally accomplished environmental goals of the Czech government, which had delayed its proposed project since 2018 for bureaucratic and financial reasons. The beaver-built dams saved the Czech government approximately US$1.2 million,
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hailey @hailey.at · 21/09/2025
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Maëlig @maelig.bsky.social · 17/09/2025
Algorithmic feed is the original sin of social networks. It baffles me when I talk to smart people who either don't know or don't care that you can do your own curation (some platforms make this more difficult than others ofc).
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Mike Berg, We 🧡 Games @weheart.games · 01/09/2025
New design challenge from @buttonshy.bsky.social …! Make an 18-card cozy game! Join us, all you 🎲✂️ folks:
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The 18-Card Challenge: Cozy Games
We play games for many reasons: to challenge our brains, to entertain ourselves, or to socialize with loved ones. One of the biggest reasons, of course, is to relax. Amid the chaos of our busy day-to-...
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Maëlig @maelig.bsky.social · 01/09/2025
Trouvailles de seconde main
Une photo des jeux de société "Bill le jeu" et "Fort Boyard"
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Maëlig @maelig.bsky.social · 25/08/2025
First day of school for my oldest today. I was emotional, he was just excited.
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lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 12/08/2025
first man to get disowned by both his physical and digital children
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Ludovox.fr @ludovox.bsky.social · 08/08/2025
TRIBUNE - Produire, vendre ou acheter un jeu de société Harry Potter, c’est dire aux personnes transgenres qu’elles n’ont pas leur place à la table de jeu wp.me/pcxUi5-1mcv #tabletop #j2s
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LudoVox - Produire, vendre ou acheter un jeu de société Harry Potter, c’est dire aux personnes transgenres qu’elles n’ont pas leur place à la table de jeu
Retrouvez ici les tribunes relayées par Ludovox ! Nous parlons ici de
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Tabletop Game Designers Association @ttgda.bsky.social · 29/07/2025
The leadership of the Tabletop Game Designers Association was disappointed to see the publisher CGE touting Codenames: Back to Hogwarts, a new Harry Potter-themed version of Codenames.
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Maëlig @maelig.bsky.social · 18/07/2025
My happy place : eating cheese while testing some game prototypes
Picture of half a cheese next to a card game and dice
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Maëlig @maelig.bsky.social · 04/07/2025
Innovation truly is a banger. Best box size to gameplay crunchiness ratio that I know of.
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Maëlig @maelig.bsky.social · 02/07/2025
Je serai à Paris est Ludique ce samedi et dimanche. Dédicaces d'Ironwood le samedi à 14h au stand de Super Meeple et quelques rdv à côté pour montrer des protos !
Affiche du festival de jeux de société Paris est Ludique
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Maëlig @maelig.bsky.social · 24/06/2025
Excellent episode, Jon Perry's perspective on the limits and comparative advantages of designing for video vs board games is particularly enlightening 🎲✂️
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Maëlig @maelig.bsky.social · 24/06/2025
Got Dune Imperium Uprising back to the table last night. Still having a lot of fun with it, but damn these worms are swingy. My friend got 5 (FIVE) VP from a single conflict, demolishing us in the process.
A picture of the boardgame Dune Imperium Uprising
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The Spaceshipper 🚀 @thespaceshipper.com · 23/06/2025
Deus Ex, a sci-fi masterpiece, was released 25 years ago today! In a year's time, we'll have covered half the distance between this cyberpunk game's release and the events recounted in its story, set in 2052. 🤯
The video game cover for "Deus Ex" features a man with dark hair, wearing futuristic goggles, looking upwards with a beam of bright light shining down on his face from above. His head and shoulders are visible against a dark, futuristic cityscape silhouette with several tall buildings and flying vehicles. The game's title, "Deus Ex," is written in a stylized, metallic, and somewhat cyberpunk font at the top of the image, illuminated by a white glow.
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Bez Bonnie-Beth 🇹🇭 🇬🇧 @stuffbybez.bsky.social · 20/06/2025
Panda manufacturing offers $25k in manufacturing for 25 folk with 2 or fewer published titles. I haven't looked deeply into this, but I can imagine it being helpful for some of my friends here. may be helpful or not pandagm.com/25-in-25/ 🎲✂️
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25 in 25 Sponsorship Submission – Panda Game Manufacturing
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