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BOMB BUSTERS won the SPIEL DES JAHRES 2025!

Featuring my illustrations and characters, the cooperative deduction game Bomb Busters has taken home the trophy for game of the year at the Oscars of the board game industry!

It is such an incredible honor to join games like Carcassone, Azul, Codenames, Cascadia and Catan in the hall of winners! I am truly blown away ;)

Die Jury hat das kooperative Bombenentschärfen mit Köpfchen „Bomb Busters“ von Hisashi Hayashi, erschienen bei Pegasus Spiele, zum Spiel des

#board games #gamedev #illustration #indie games

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https://play.date/games/seasons/two/

Dig! Dig! Dino! finally revealed! It’s a chill digging game, full of treasure and weird dinos, releasing for the Playdate in a few weeks! 🦖🦴⛏️

Join the paleontologist team at a mysterious new digsite, digging out dinosaur bones and various treasures! Find bones and artifacts to uncover the strange secrets of this digsite, and sell treasure to upgrade your tools and dig even deeper! What strange new dinos will you find in the deepest layers of the digsite?

Fayer and I developed Dig! Dig! Dino! for the amazing indie handheld console, the Playdate! The little machine is such a haven for creative games, I couldn’t pass on the opportunity to make a tiny game for it, in glorious black and white!

Playdate Season 2 is a bundle of 12 creative indie games, and our game Dig! Dig! Dino! was selected as a preview highlight! It's all up for pre-order now, for 39$. You get 2 games to unwrap every week, such joyful discovery! So lucky to be a part of this. ✨

A bundle of unique and wonderful new games—discover them each week along with the rest of the Playdate community.

LiveTale Illustrations

Illustrations for a live play TTRPG application/game! I designed 72 character trait cards in a very short time, and I had a blast creating a wild variety of fun iconic images!

#illustration #game design #art #board games #ttrpg #tabletop

Where to find me!

Hello! Here's where to find Dom2D in this weird place that is the internet!

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Bomb Busters is a huge hit! One of the best games of 2024 according to many (including Dice Tower!), it's been published in multiple languages and has sold a ton of copies. I'm so proud of this project, as it showcases how humor and cuteness makes everything better :)

#board games #board game design #illustration #game design

Mysterious Game

#game #game design #illustration #choose your own adventure

Contact me!

For opportunities, projects, or any other inquiry, contact me through LinkedIn, e-mail (dom2dmail at gmail) or Twitter!

Bomb Busters

Bomb Busters is an amazing board game, designed by Hisashi Hayashi (Yokohama, Trains), illustrated by me, Dom2D! It's coming out very soon from the nice folks at Cocktail Games :)

It's a puzzly coop game in which you defuse bombs, in 66 missions with various new rules and twists. I feel so privileged to have had the chance to illustrate this!

#board games #illustration #board game design #game design

TOJAM 24: Flowchart machine

Flowchart Machine is a board game created in 48 hours for the Toronto Game Jam, with Marc-Antoine Jetté-Léger ! Rules and PnP files available here!

The game is played solo or cooperatively, probably in under 20 minutes. During the game, you'll place cards on a grid, connecting nodes and modules to produce resources and hopefully churn out enough victory points to reach your quota!

Flinthook

Flinthook trailer! I did the game design and creative direction on this fun indie roguelike gem!

Live the life of space captain Flinthook! Armed with your mighty hookshot, your uncanny slow-motion powers and your trusty blasma pistol, plunder and fight your way through an infinite variety of randomly-assembled spaceships for treasure, loot and fame!

Trailer edited by me as well!

(art by the Flinthook team)

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Snake Snack is a small board game using roll & write mechanics, made in a couple of weeks.

In Snake Snack, players create a chain of hungry Snakes to collect various critters, filling in their snack grid to score points!

(Snake Snack was a finalist in the Button Shy 2022 Challenge)

#board game #game jam

Space Invaders: Hidden Heroes

At Square Enix Montreal, I was the creative director on Space Invaders: Hidden Heroes, an innovative AR mobile game built with an incredibly talented team. With a brand new gameplay built from AI and Machine Learning technology, the game truly invaded the player's reality!

- Directed team of 40+ talented people to build a game and renew a classic brand, leading our game design and art teams through development - Established, communicated and maintained the creative direction for an innovative AR experience built on new, proprietary technology - Built relationships with major partners (Apple, Google, Samsung) with our innovative use case for their devices, through meetings and presentations - Set the foundations for a new scifi story set in the real world, in which players would join a secret community to find hidden creatures and fight alien invaders, told through the game as well as social media and ARG elements

(Art by the amazing team at Square Enix)

Find and collect Sparks - surprising creatures hidden in the real world, merged with everyday objects! Befriend them and unlock their incredible power! Build your team of Sparks, collaborate with players around the world in a secret community, and fight a terrible threat… Space Invaders!

Characters in Hidden Heroes are wildly varied alien creatures with characteristics of everyday objects!

An example of how characters would be revealed from everyday objects, thanks to new object recognition technology and advanced 3D positioning and object occlusion in Augmented Reality!<

In the game, you could build your collection of characters and send them out to fight the Space Invaders!

Teaser trailer, as we prepared the terrain for a wild renewal of the classic brand of Space invaders!

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Cat Detective!

For a little while, I experimented with the idea of a detective game stream, with an animated avatar! Animaze worked with me to create the 3D character that mimics my movements thanks to their incredible software.

Background by Cheryl Young

Escape room style puzzle design

The project is off for now, but I might return to it in the future... What a mystery!

#game design #illustration #cat #detective

Board game project, in progress.

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