Tor Viktorsson

Playtesting.

I play CRUMBS! with my wife. Don't play on an empty stomach.

I feel stupid for not realizing that the different color borders are too similar. The cards are double coded with different icons in the top left corner but still. Always accommodate for dim lights. Good thing it's only a test print.

Today, it’s a battle of the designers! We’ll be playing both Where is That? and Flip 7. Both games are nominated for the Swedish Family Game of the Year award, Årets Spel, so naturally we had to get together and play each other’s games!

The cards for Bones & Banners have been streamlined to reduce the amount of text on them.

Where is That: Europe is nominated to the best family game award of Sweden. It’s an honour to stand next to these two competitors!

Hey #GenCon help us out on our quest to 100 followers! We’re indie, we’re podcasting our journey, and our two-player game “cooks” (they say). Help us be seen with a repost, a heart, or a mention to a friend. 🎲✂️

Today is my birthday (turning 30), which is the only time each year when I ask you for a repost should you like my art. Have a good day! 🦦🌿✨️ - Simon

We make FlickFleet on a laser-cutter in Paul’s garage. And we’ve been doing so for 8 years! It’s got an average of 7.9 on BGG and is ‘Must-Play’ according to Tabletop Gaming Magazine 🎉 eurydicegames.co.uk/games/flickf...

WHERE CAN YOU FIND THIS? Apple Podcasts: podcasts.apple.com/pt/podcast/m... RSS: rss.com/podcasts/mak... Youtube: www.youtube.com/watch?v=EM4n...

RIP John Blanche

Sharp Eye #1 by Daniel M. Bensen, Artyom Trakhanov, Jason Wordie and Simon Roy. A graphic poem drawn by @vor-bokor.bsky.social . So good.

🎲✂️ Tonight at 9PM ET (UTC-5), @senfoonglim.bsky.social and Hafiz speak with Katherine Boils of www.kbdesignwork about graphic design and her role in taking a game from idea to the tabletop, including accessability. Come join in the chat youtube.com/MeepleSyrup or facebook.com/MeepleSyrup!

Georgian police unlocks psalm 7:7.

My daughter Moa and I will attend #LinCon again this year hanging out in the #gamedesigner room and helping out with the #SAGA Swedish Annual Game Design Awards. I'll bring the latest Bones & Banners prototype, hopefully in a nice printing.

General update on Comix / Art / the Card Game I'm working on! 🔥 patreon.com/posts/154323...

What's My JND? 0.0052 Can you beat it? www.keithcirkel.co.uk/whats-my-jnd...

I started trying to explain how to outline a rulebook, but the metaphor ran away from me.

I've been working on a free, open source (FOSS) virtual tabletop program aimed at designers (using Godot). Over the last few months I've been focusing on component creation. I'm looking for feedback and collaborators - please consider joining the team! youtu.be/f3gy7jlzHdk?...

It’s exciting to see the first videos for Crumbs! coming out now the game is released, @danicha.bsky.social has just uploaded an excellent video covering the setup and first few rounds of play. Check it out! youtu.be/vdWXUdLux50?...

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SAGA 2026 is a Swedish board game design competition with regional qualifiers early in the year and an online submission period in February. 🎲✂️ youtu.be/srQWLx_Eljg?...

I will moderate a panel discussion with fellow Game designer friends. The topic for the discussion is "How to approach publishers". Live session on Tuesday if this sounds interesting! If you can't attend: the discussion and the following Q&A will be made available afterwards. fb.me/e/386Ikv0wm

Is there a european discord for self-publishing board games? 🎲✂️

Writing a rulebook is insanely difficult. But I think the page on the right is easier to read than the page on the left, while still containing at least as much information.

🎲✂️ Every time I see 'balanced' I feel it's assigned a meaning that keeps boiling down to 'no people ahead' and, of course that's not a good game >_< IMO: a game is balanced if players have a fair shot at winning, at reading when/why they may be behind, & at knowing where recovery points could be.

Getting closer to having skeletons in Bones & Banners so now I can soon retcon why the game is called Bones & Banners in the first place.

After FIVE YEARS of waiting, SHARP EYE #1, our follow-up to FIRST KNIFE, just hit Kickstarter! www.kickstarter.com/projects/sha... Check out our creepy full trailer, and then also all the info on the project following the link above, and please consider sharing and supporting our beautiful child!

Trying to lock down a design language for future Undead unit cards.

I am begging board game designers/publishers to PLEASE stop putting background images behind text on cards, in rulebooks, & on player aids. There are SO MANY neurodivergent people & people with vision issues whose brains have great difficulty trying to process this type of visual content.

A beautiful day! Received a copy of Bones & Banners to playtest—all the way from Sweden. @torviktorsson.bsky.social

youtu.be/TbMWN7gHcVs?... Welcome to SAGA Sessions, a discussion on game design! This time, we have invited Anne-Laure Janssen to talk about how to make a game accessible for a wider audience. Anne-Laure is a game designer with a special focus on making accessible board games.

Welcome to SAGA Sessions – game design talks twice a month! Anne-Laure Janssen on accessibility in board games. Big print? Braille? Color choices? Shapes? Let’s bust some myths and make games better for everyone. #GameDesign #BoardGames #Accessibility #SAGA calendar.google.com/calendar/u/0...

The talks by the Swedish Annual Game design Awards (SAGA) are now public on YouTube. We started giving them in English once we realised that there was a bigger interest than we originally thought. youtube.com/@saga_game_d...