Diary Archives - Space Cowboys

Elysium is an aggressive game. Bold, unapologetic, and full of emotion. It’s no surprise that, more than 10 years after its release, I still remember it so fondly. Having worked at Libellud since 2017, you might think I mostly thrive on cozy, feel-good games. But in reality, I’m especially drawn to games with guts, those […]

It’s not often that you get a chance to revisit one of your old published games, and reimagine it for a new audience. Elysium, designed with Brett J. Gilbert, and published by Space Cowboys in 2015, is one of the games I am the most proud of in my ludography. There are a lot of […]

Dewan was released in stores on January 23rd. It took over a year to finalize the development within the studio. Aside from the two designers, Johannes Goupy and Yoann Levet, and the illustrator, Arthus Pilorget, who else was part of the team? Who was working on the game development? We tell you everything! Who was […]

The story of my latest game, SpellBook, begins almost twenty years ago when I first got into the hobby of modern board games. As I was discovering all the amazing titles that had been coming out of Europe, I also found my first favorite mechanism: set collection. I marveled at how different designers could take this […]

As the co-designers of Perspectives, we decided it would be appropriate to write our sections for this designer diary separately, each recounting the experience from our own perspective. We agreed that we would not edit out any discrepancies. If there are any inconsistencies or differences of opinion about what happened, it’s because that’s how life – […]

Cédric Lefebvre & Florian Sirieix, co-designers: Florian had initially thought of the Monkey King theme for his game After Us. Eventually, more modern monkeys appeared. But Cédric, who loved the Legend during the proto test, suggested that Florian make a new game about Sun Wukong. Thus began the adventure… “It’s up to you to keep […]