Marc Larivière @marclariviere.bsky.social · 12/11/2025Attempting to have a career as a game designer sure brought a lot of weird and wonderful projects to my table last month :) - A dexterity game we made for a youth theater festival - A mural about a squirrel eating a muffin, made out of muffins 🎲✂️ 020
Marc Larivière @marclariviere.bsky.social · 10/10/2025Either I find the title of the game I'm working on immediately, or I never quite find it. 🎲✂️ This one is the latter, unfortunately. 150
Marc Larivière @marclariviere.bsky.social · 04/06/2025I'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? 🎲✂️ 2100
Marc Larivière @marclariviere.bsky.social · 23/04/2025🎲✂️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? 160
Reposted by Marc LarivièreNick Bentley Makes Games @nickbentley.bsky.social · 04/04/2025At 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. 🎲✂️(1/7) 3216654
Marc Larivière @marclariviere.bsky.social · 04/04/2025It'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 🎲✂️boardgamegeek.comDesigner Diary: Very Bad Lands | BoardGameGeek News 071
Marc Larivière @marclariviere.bsky.social · 22/03/2025Découvrez mon top5 sur la chaîne du Bureau du loisir. Et surtout, découvrez le bureau du loisir ♥️ #j2syoutube.comTop 5 jeux de Marc Larivière! - Le designer de Very bad lands.YouTube video by Le Bureau du Loisir 010
Reposted by Marc LarivièreRoss 💙🎲 MoreGamesPlease @moregamesplease.com · 20/03/2025I 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. 17472
Marc Larivière @marclariviere.bsky.social · 19/03/2025One 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! 🎲✂️ 1200
Marc Larivière @marclariviere.bsky.social · 11/03/2025Coming 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. 🎲✂️ 0100
Reposted by Marc Larivière🥧 suzanne 🥧 @425suzanne.bsky.social · 05/03/2025Just 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. 1784
Marc Larivière @marclariviere.bsky.social · 02/03/2025My little dinos are growing up! #fij25 #verybadlands 040
Marc Larivière @marclariviere.bsky.social · 20/02/2025I’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 060
Marc Larivière @marclariviere.bsky.social · 18/02/2025Someday, someone will find my notebooks and conclude that I was mad. 🎲✂️ #boardgames #terreferme 1140
Marc Larivière @marclariviere.bsky.social · 10/02/2025The 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 150
Reposted by Marc LarivièreMatthew Dunstan @matthewdunstan.bsky.social · 10/02/2025New video out today - chatting about how I decide what ideas to work on for new games and why! youtu.be/E54gkTqQv9Q 🎲✂️youtu.beWhat makes a good idea for a game?YouTube video by Matthew Dunstan 1374
Reposted by Marc LarivièreEvlyn Moreau @evlynmoreau.bsky.social · 06/02/2025Variant human character for my game Orbital Megastructure. 1423838
Reposted by Marc LarivièreRoss 💙🎲 MoreGamesPlease @moregamesplease.com · 04/02/2025Great 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...moregamesplease.comGaren Ewing: Art in Board Games #3 — More Games PleaseI think I always wanted to be an illustrator, perhaps more specifically a comic artist - so I’ve been lucky. I was in hospital a lot as a child and my mum gave me comics to read and paper and pencils ... 0183
Marc Larivière @marclariviere.bsky.social · 03/02/2025Losing a race makes your dog hungry for more. Winning a race makes your dog cocky. Is that the right word cocky? #boardgames #underdogs 020
Marc Larivière @marclariviere.bsky.social · 01/02/2025I 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 0140
Reposted by Marc LarivièreAlways Awake Games (Connor) 🔜 PaxU @connor.alwaysawake.games · 06/01/2025The 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 1128
Marc Larivière @marclariviere.bsky.social · 29/01/2025What an ongoing illustration project looks like! 031
Marc Larivière @marclariviere.bsky.social · 23/01/2025It doesn't look like it, but this is a roll and write 🤔 and it will hopefully get you to draw! #boardgames 000
Marc Larivière @marclariviere.bsky.social · 21/01/2025Going through old drawings of the disaster cards in Very Bad Lands as I work on a new devlog. #boardgames #verybadlands 041
Reposted by Marc LarivièreKienna is making Erstwild @kiennas.bsky.social · 17/01/2025It's time for #tinyworldjam! Join me and @vidityavoleti.bsky.social in making #TTRPG micro settings that can fit within a few pages - worldbuild on a small scale, keep the scope easy, and have fun with it Submissions open from now until January 31st at 11:59 pm ET itch.io/jam/tiny-wor... 26445219
Marc Larivière @marclariviere.bsky.social · 16/01/2025Level design is fun :) #underdogs #boardgames 020
Marc Larivière @marclariviere.bsky.social · 15/01/2025Obstacles are set! Now let’s build exciting dog parcours for them to perform on! 🎲✂️ #underdogs #boardgames 021
Marc Larivière @marclariviere.bsky.social · 14/01/2025When I'm not making games, you can find me drawing 🖍️ #portfolioday 031
Marc Larivière @marclariviere.bsky.social · 10/01/2025In a competitive board game, would you ever choose to play as the underdog, knowing you have worst odds of winning, just for the fun of it? 🎲✂️ #boardgames #underdog 120
Marc Larivière @marclariviere.bsky.social · 09/01/2025Terre Ferme solo is coming along nicely! It's shaping up to be a small sketchbook that you can carry around. #terreferme #boardgames #soloboardgames #workerplacement 020
Marc Larivière @marclariviere.bsky.social · 05/12/2024I'll be at PaxUnplugged this weekend, playing games and sketching as usual! Find me at booth 2545 from 2 to 6 — I’ll make you a card! :) #paxUnplugged #verybadlands 020
Marc Larivière @marclariviere.bsky.social · 19/07/2024If you see this, post something fantasy/DnD from your portfolio. #fantasy #art #ttrpg 010
Marc Larivière @marclariviere.bsky.social · 18/07/2024It's getting real #first #boardgame #cardgamehachetteboardgames.comVery Bad Lands: BrachioIn Very Bad Lands: Brachio, you'll play as dinosaurs striving to survive numerous disasters that threaten extinction! Navigate clever strategies, a touch of bluffing, and a bit of luck to prevail thro... 030
Reposted by Marc LarivièreEvlyn Moreau @evlynmoreau.bsky.social · 12/07/2024GMing Tunnel Goons tonight with this legendary map that we collectively keyed during the Google+ OSR era. 6656
Reposted by Marc LarivièreFernando Salvaterra @salvaterra.bsky.social · 09/07/2024Hi #PortfolioDay My name is Fernando Salvaterra, I'm a Brazilian illustrator making fantasy maps for novels and TTRPGs. 💼 cara.app/salvaterra 🗺️ www.patreon.com/tomeofsalvat... 08830
Marc Larivière @marclariviere.bsky.social · 04/07/2024I added the whole family in The Quest for El Dorado! #boardgame #Eldorado #cards #houserules 030
Marc Larivière @marclariviere.bsky.social · 03/07/2024Can I fit a worker placement game like Agricola on a regular piece of paper. I believe I can! #agricola #boardgame #wip #gamedesign #workerplacement #rollandwrite #farm #agricola #Terreferme 080
