Cris Viana ✨
@crislv.bsky.social
Lead Graphic Designer at Evil Hat Productions.
https://www.crisvianastudio.com/
https://www.crisvianastudio.com/
So exited about this game! Cant wait to work on the final book ✨
Excited to be talking about a new game coming soon by Sen-Foong Lim, Di Anne Hong, Calvin Wong Tze Loon, Sean Nittner and myself with @evilhat.bsky.social
Graphics by @crislv.bsky.social
Graphics by @crislv.bsky.social
November 25, 2025 at 5:26 PM
So exited about this game! Cant wait to work on the final book ✨
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[shaking art prints] want some art?
Thanks Jeremy! I'm an illustrator of fantasy, sci fi and horror!
I have a print shop in the US www.inprnt.com/gallery/carl...
Or a UK studio shop where i sell original drawings/collages carlydraws.sumupstore.com
I have a print shop in the US www.inprnt.com/gallery/carl...
Or a UK studio shop where i sell original drawings/collages carlydraws.sumupstore.com
November 20, 2025 at 8:35 PM
[shaking art prints] want some art?
2 hours left to back this awesome project!!
www.backerkit.com/c/projects/e...
www.backerkit.com/c/projects/e...
Designers & Dragons: Origins
From the birth of roleplaying to the discovery of the Forgotten Realms, from the rise of Basic D&D to the fall of Mystara, historian Shannon Appelcline brings you the story of OD&D, Basic D&D, and AD&...
www.backerkit.com
November 20, 2025 at 11:35 PM
2 hours left to back this awesome project!!
www.backerkit.com/c/projects/e...
www.backerkit.com/c/projects/e...
Me, myself and 23 NPCs on our session tonight... and I'm the GM. I hate myself hahahaha
November 18, 2025 at 2:20 AM
Me, myself and 23 NPCs on our session tonight... and I'm the GM. I hate myself hahahaha
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Designers & Dragons: Origins passed its next stretch goal over the weekend, which means that we have another poll up for content to add to the backer's-only preview. This one is boxed sets.
Pretty sure I know the winner here, but there's some fine options.
Pretty sure I know the winner here, but there's some fine options.
Designers & Dragons: Origins Project Update: Basic vs Expert vs Forgotten Realms and more! New poll - BOXED SETS.
Friends, we've got just FOUR days left in this campaign.
It's time to tell your friends, tell your neighbors, and tell them what? That you're voting on ANOTHER chapter to ...
www.backerkit.com
November 17, 2025 at 6:01 PM
Designers & Dragons: Origins passed its next stretch goal over the weekend, which means that we have another poll up for content to add to the backer's-only preview. This one is boxed sets.
Pretty sure I know the winner here, but there's some fine options.
Pretty sure I know the winner here, but there's some fine options.
Reposted by Cris Viana ✨
3 years ago today, Riot Games offered me a job making more money than I ever thought I’d make in my life. I had 19 interviews over 2.5 months to get it. Partner and I were moving to LA for it. I put in notice at my job and apartment.
2 weeks later they rescinded the offer due to “headcount issues”.
2 weeks later they rescinded the offer due to “headcount issues”.
November 15, 2025 at 2:07 PM
3 years ago today, Riot Games offered me a job making more money than I ever thought I’d make in my life. I had 19 interviews over 2.5 months to get it. Partner and I were moving to LA for it. I put in notice at my job and apartment.
2 weeks later they rescinded the offer due to “headcount issues”.
2 weeks later they rescinded the offer due to “headcount issues”.
Reposted by Cris Viana ✨
🏳️⚧️ We’re back with paid opportunities for Trans+ creatives!
Writer? Illustrator? Audio producer? This is for you.
With @transhistoryweek.com we’re investing in 20 Trans+ creatives to make content for Trans+ History Week 2026.
Deadline 2nd Dec 2025, 11:59PM GMT 🗓️
🧵 Details 👇
Writer? Illustrator? Audio producer? This is for you.
With @transhistoryweek.com we’re investing in 20 Trans+ creatives to make content for Trans+ History Week 2026.
Deadline 2nd Dec 2025, 11:59PM GMT 🗓️
🧵 Details 👇
November 11, 2025 at 2:46 PM
🏳️⚧️ We’re back with paid opportunities for Trans+ creatives!
Writer? Illustrator? Audio producer? This is for you.
With @transhistoryweek.com we’re investing in 20 Trans+ creatives to make content for Trans+ History Week 2026.
Deadline 2nd Dec 2025, 11:59PM GMT 🗓️
🧵 Details 👇
Writer? Illustrator? Audio producer? This is for you.
With @transhistoryweek.com we’re investing in 20 Trans+ creatives to make content for Trans+ History Week 2026.
Deadline 2nd Dec 2025, 11:59PM GMT 🗓️
🧵 Details 👇
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No, using AI generated stuff as a "placeholder" on your crowdfunding campaign is not OK either.
If the visuals are THAT important to getting your project funded, then you need to pay a person up front for those key visuals and deliver a consistent end product to your backers.
If the visuals are THAT important to getting your project funded, then you need to pay a person up front for those key visuals and deliver a consistent end product to your backers.
November 11, 2025 at 1:55 AM
No, using AI generated stuff as a "placeholder" on your crowdfunding campaign is not OK either.
If the visuals are THAT important to getting your project funded, then you need to pay a person up front for those key visuals and deliver a consistent end product to your backers.
If the visuals are THAT important to getting your project funded, then you need to pay a person up front for those key visuals and deliver a consistent end product to your backers.
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ANNOUNCING: i'm now available for pro-GMing w/ StartPlaying—play with an AP performer & award-winning game designer!
🎲 Mothership "A Pound of Flesh" sandbox campaigns weekly Mon @ 3pm ET
🎲 Mothership "Gradient Descent" one-shot Tue 11/25 @ 2pm ET
🎲 PLANET FIST one-shot Thu 11/20 @ 3pm ET
🔗s ⬇️🧵!
🎲 Mothership "A Pound of Flesh" sandbox campaigns weekly Mon @ 3pm ET
🎲 Mothership "Gradient Descent" one-shot Tue 11/25 @ 2pm ET
🎲 PLANET FIST one-shot Thu 11/20 @ 3pm ET
🔗s ⬇️🧵!
November 7, 2025 at 6:24 PM
ANNOUNCING: i'm now available for pro-GMing w/ StartPlaying—play with an AP performer & award-winning game designer!
🎲 Mothership "A Pound of Flesh" sandbox campaigns weekly Mon @ 3pm ET
🎲 Mothership "Gradient Descent" one-shot Tue 11/25 @ 2pm ET
🎲 PLANET FIST one-shot Thu 11/20 @ 3pm ET
🔗s ⬇️🧵!
🎲 Mothership "A Pound of Flesh" sandbox campaigns weekly Mon @ 3pm ET
🎲 Mothership "Gradient Descent" one-shot Tue 11/25 @ 2pm ET
🎲 PLANET FIST one-shot Thu 11/20 @ 3pm ET
🔗s ⬇️🧵!
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Apocalypse World is far and away my favorite game, period, and this new edition is *even better*.
Here We GO! Come along, my dearies!
www.kickstarter.com/projects/lum...
www.kickstarter.com/projects/lum...
Apocalypse World: Burned Over
The 3rd edition of the groundbreaking original.
www.kickstarter.com
November 6, 2025 at 8:27 PM
Apocalypse World is far and away my favorite game, period, and this new edition is *even better*.
Reposted by Cris Viana ✨
Here We GO! Come along, my dearies!
www.kickstarter.com/projects/lum...
www.kickstarter.com/projects/lum...
Apocalypse World: Burned Over
The 3rd edition of the groundbreaking original.
www.kickstarter.com
November 6, 2025 at 2:31 PM
Here We GO! Come along, my dearies!
www.kickstarter.com/projects/lum...
www.kickstarter.com/projects/lum...
Reposted by Cris Viana ✨
Most of the games we've published in the last 10 years (ie Monster of the Week, Thirsty Sword Lesbians, Blades in the Dark) either use the Powered by the Apocalypse engine or are hugely influenced by it.
Happy to back this latest incarnation from the Bakers.
Strongly recommend you check it out:
Happy to back this latest incarnation from the Bakers.
Strongly recommend you check it out:
Here We GO! Come along, my dearies!
www.kickstarter.com/projects/lum...
www.kickstarter.com/projects/lum...
Apocalypse World: Burned Over
The 3rd edition of the groundbreaking original.
www.kickstarter.com
November 6, 2025 at 4:50 PM
Most of the games we've published in the last 10 years (ie Monster of the Week, Thirsty Sword Lesbians, Blades in the Dark) either use the Powered by the Apocalypse engine or are hugely influenced by it.
Happy to back this latest incarnation from the Bakers.
Strongly recommend you check it out:
Happy to back this latest incarnation from the Bakers.
Strongly recommend you check it out:
Reposted by Cris Viana ✨
ok well I guess we're just out here posting it on main now huh
You are Omen-class monsters.
The only one who can understand your power is someone who can command your power.
Apocalypse Keys.
evilhat.com/product-cate...
The only one who can understand your power is someone who can command your power.
Apocalypse Keys.
evilhat.com/product-cate...
October 31, 2025 at 6:06 PM
ok well I guess we're just out here posting it on main now huh
Reposted by Cris Viana ✨
You are Omen-class monsters.
The only one who can understand your power is someone who can command your power.
Apocalypse Keys.
evilhat.com/product-cate...
The only one who can understand your power is someone who can command your power.
Apocalypse Keys.
evilhat.com/product-cate...
October 31, 2025 at 5:57 PM
You are Omen-class monsters.
The only one who can understand your power is someone who can command your power.
Apocalypse Keys.
evilhat.com/product-cate...
The only one who can understand your power is someone who can command your power.
Apocalypse Keys.
evilhat.com/product-cate...
Reposted by Cris Viana ✨
Heyoo
Forgotten Ballad, my Sword & Song RPG, is on sale on Itch.io
And I also dropped some community copies!
itch.io/s/166477/hal...
Forgotten Ballad, my Sword & Song RPG, is on sale on Itch.io
And I also dropped some community copies!
itch.io/s/166477/hal...
Halloween Sale 2025 by coolwayink
A bundle by coolwayink, $7.00 for Forgotten Ballad, Cries of the Overworld
itch.io
October 31, 2025 at 10:34 AM
Heyoo
Forgotten Ballad, my Sword & Song RPG, is on sale on Itch.io
And I also dropped some community copies!
itch.io/s/166477/hal...
Forgotten Ballad, my Sword & Song RPG, is on sale on Itch.io
And I also dropped some community copies!
itch.io/s/166477/hal...
I have a very important question.
Is it possible to play a game of "The Completely Made-Up Adventures of Dick Turpin" using Blades in the Dark @evilhat.bsky.social
www.youtube.com/watch?v=kq5T...
Is it possible to play a game of "The Completely Made-Up Adventures of Dick Turpin" using Blades in the Dark @evilhat.bsky.social
www.youtube.com/watch?v=kq5T...
The Completely Made-Up Adventures of Dick Turpin — Official Trailer | Apple TV
YouTube video by Apple TV
www.youtube.com
October 30, 2025 at 10:19 PM
I have a very important question.
Is it possible to play a game of "The Completely Made-Up Adventures of Dick Turpin" using Blades in the Dark @evilhat.bsky.social
www.youtube.com/watch?v=kq5T...
Is it possible to play a game of "The Completely Made-Up Adventures of Dick Turpin" using Blades in the Dark @evilhat.bsky.social
www.youtube.com/watch?v=kq5T...
Movie recommendation 💖
October 25, 2025 at 7:48 PM
Movie recommendation 💖
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On our crowdfunding campaigns from Thirsty Sword Lesbians on forward we've been using Backerkit's marketing services to take care of ad placement. We (@crislv.bsky.social) make a variety of graphics to their spec, hand them over, and let them roll with it.
October 24, 2025 at 5:36 PM
On our crowdfunding campaigns from Thirsty Sword Lesbians on forward we've been using Backerkit's marketing services to take care of ad placement. We (@crislv.bsky.social) make a variety of graphics to their spec, hand them over, and let them roll with it.
Reposted by Cris Viana ✨
Outra palestra imperdível foi a da @crislv.bsky.social, que deu a letra em Diagramação para game designers: dicas pra facilitar a leitura e deixar seu jogo lindo! Um guia maravilhoso pra quem quer colocar o dedinho dentro da diagramação e entender conceitos-chave!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=lE5t...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=lE5t...
Diagramação para game designers: dicas pra facilitar a leitura e deixar seu jogo lindo! (Cris Viana)
YouTube video by ComunaJam
www.youtube.com
October 24, 2025 at 4:24 PM
Outra palestra imperdível foi a da @crislv.bsky.social, que deu a letra em Diagramação para game designers: dicas pra facilitar a leitura e deixar seu jogo lindo! Um guia maravilhoso pra quem quer colocar o dedinho dentro da diagramação e entender conceitos-chave!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=lE5t...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=lE5t...
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In 2013, I started writing product histories for @drivethrurpg.com and their new releases of D&D PDFs. It was a great opportunity and I got *lots* of comments on them. The most common: when are you going to collect these into a book? Those books are available now on Backerkit!
October 21, 2025 at 5:56 PM
In 2013, I started writing product histories for @drivethrurpg.com and their new releases of D&D PDFs. It was a great opportunity and I got *lots* of comments on them. The most common: when are you going to collect these into a book? Those books are available now on Backerkit!
Reposted by Cris Viana ✨
Of course, the books have also been carefully edited and beautifully laid out by @evilhat.bsky.social. @ktwelves.bsky.social helped me with consistency (and everything making sense). @crislv.bsky.social offered gorgeous graphic design. @lulavampiro.bsky.social helped with tricky issues. ETC!
October 21, 2025 at 5:56 PM
Of course, the books have also been carefully edited and beautifully laid out by @evilhat.bsky.social. @ktwelves.bsky.social helped me with consistency (and everything making sense). @crislv.bsky.social offered gorgeous graphic design. @lulavampiro.bsky.social helped with tricky issues. ETC!
yaaaaayyyyy!! These books are so great! come and take a look!
⚔️ NOW LIVE! ⚔️ Designers & Dragons: Origins!
Award-winning historian @shannonappelcline.bsky.social delves deep into the origins and design of every product TSR published for OD&D, Basic D&D, and AD&D 1E.
Pledge now and gain access to The Adventurers' Hoard
www.backerkit.com/c/projects/e...
Award-winning historian @shannonappelcline.bsky.social delves deep into the origins and design of every product TSR published for OD&D, Basic D&D, and AD&D 1E.
Pledge now and gain access to The Adventurers' Hoard
www.backerkit.com/c/projects/e...
October 21, 2025 at 3:17 PM
yaaaaayyyyy!! These books are so great! come and take a look!
Reposted by Cris Viana ✨
An excerpt from @shannonappelcline.bsky.social's upcoming book, Designers & Dragons: Origins, tells the story of an infamous TSR module and its swift recall.
Palace of the Silver Princess: How TSR Recalled and Buried A D&D Adventure
An excerpt from Designers & Dragons: Origins
www.rascal.news
October 20, 2025 at 2:54 PM
An excerpt from @shannonappelcline.bsky.social's upcoming book, Designers & Dragons: Origins, tells the story of an infamous TSR module and its swift recall.
Reposted by Cris Viana ✨
The Halloween Sale is ON! 🎃
Spooky picks for your Halloween one-shot or horror themed titles for your next campaign! 👻
31% off through October 31st!
🧵👇 for all the links!
Spooky picks for your Halloween one-shot or horror themed titles for your next campaign! 👻
31% off through October 31st!
🧵👇 for all the links!
October 16, 2025 at 5:10 PM
The Halloween Sale is ON! 🎃
Spooky picks for your Halloween one-shot or horror themed titles for your next campaign! 👻
31% off through October 31st!
🧵👇 for all the links!
Spooky picks for your Halloween one-shot or horror themed titles for your next campaign! 👻
31% off through October 31st!
🧵👇 for all the links!