Bez Bonnie-Beth 🇹🇭 🇬🇧
@stuffbybez.bsky.social
Loves games, dancing, people. Makes games. Improvises music. Tries to be a decent human. Sometimes refers to herself in the 3rd person. https://linktr.ee/stuffByBez Designer, developer, illustrator, rules writer/editor. Available for hire. Learning Thai.
I suppose part of me wonders if there's anyone who'd actually want to remote-playtest something more-involved of mine. Or, even, someone who wants to work together on something and do all the PnP files. :-p
Bez Bonnie-Beth 🇹🇭 🇬🇧@stuffbybez.bsky.social · 12h agoIf enough people react or reply to this, I'll go back to making a vaguely strategic game with a 'theme' of magical battles. Tiles and cards and fancy meeples. AMA
In case anyone is wondering, a comment is worth anywhere from 1-100 likes for my motivation. I appreciate both though. <3 I'm off to have dinner. Probably Thai. :-p
Bez Bonnie-Beth 🇹🇭 🇬🇧@stuffbybez.bsky.social · 12h agoIf enough people react or reply to this, I'll go back to making a vaguely strategic game with a 'theme' of magical battles. Tiles and cards and fancy meeples. AMA
If enough people react or reply to this, I'll go back to making a vaguely strategic game with a 'theme' of magical battles. Tiles and cards and fancy meeples. AMA
Today is 1st August. Since 2017, I have 'released' a 'new' ELL deck game every year on this date. The ELL deck game for 2026 is SCRIBBELL. Check it out on the top of the google drive. drive.google.com/drive/folder...
ELL deck rules directory. Most important at the top. - Google Drive
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If anyone here: - is willing to try a simple word game - has an ELL deck OR can PnP - has time in the next week Please let me know!
Q1: Which game do you wish that more people played? A1: "A game about drawing creatures, complimenting the drawings, then complimenting the compliments." Not to denigrate my other games, but I think that this one has helped people (including myself) with self-reflection/improvement.
Bez Bonnie-Beth 🇹🇭 🇬🇧@stuffbybez.bsky.social · 3w agoA reminder that I have a wikipedia page! en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bez_Sha... And if anyone wants to add any info, feel free to ask me. If you're not sure if something is appropriate to ask, go ahead and I can be the judge. Curiousity is cool imo. AMA.
A reminder that I have a wikipedia page! en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bez_Sha... And if anyone wants to add any info, feel free to ask me. If you're not sure if something is appropriate to ask, go ahead and I can be the judge. Curiousity is cool imo. AMA.
Bez Shahriari - Wikipedia
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Kinda wondering how it'd feel to have buzzed, or even shaved, back/sides and have long hair up top.
Things I am proudest of over the past 48 hrs: - organising/offloading all my old videogame/console stuff - and also throwing away a bunch of stuff (or finding new homes for some stuff) - my idea for a Yogi celebration at UKGE 2027 - keeping a secret (uggghhhh) I am trying to not be a hoarder.
The ELL deck launched in 2017 with 5 games in the box, and ever 1st August since there's been a new set of game rules for the deck available online, freely available. There will be another game officially 'released' this year (SCRIBBELL) and one next year (BALANSABELL) but I'm unsure about 2028.
Bez Bonnie-Beth 🇹🇭 🇬🇧@stuffbybez.bsky.social · 4w agoBalansabell The ELL deck game for August 2027. Balancing 2 aspects. Writing forwards/backwards, and making 2 long words. For each, your 2nd-longest counts. Some cards are drawn. 21-ish. There are some wildcards. Unsure how many. There is either multiplication or addition.
Games I'm actively thinking about (thread): Scribbell + LittellScribbell Aug '26 Yogi with Teams and Cat noises and Gamblers. There is also potential sabotage/blackmail/bribery. event at UKGE '27 SEIZE THE POWER : a game about unfairness, negotiation, and revolution '27 Balansabell Aug '27 []
I have the best idea. Yogi, with extroverted team leaders and 'extra lives' who twist/bend their body to keep their team alive. Saboteurs with flexible foam fingers. Gamblers who buy shares and side-bets and sometimes pay off saboteurs to swing the odds in their favour. And an audience. Who's in?
Today, for maybe the first time in my life, I had a wonderfully exciting idea and then decided not to tell anyone. If I forget, that's OK. It has to happen naturally...
My Pink Floyd album of the month (playing repeatedly) is Division Bell. Suggestions for non-Pink Floyd albums are welcome.
For the next 2 months, I'm going to try to lie once a day. Just to keep people guessing. :-p It may not be a public lie. It might be a lie to just one or two people. But they will be warned of this possibility. And one day, I plan to hire a skywriter to spread my lie.
Love and acceptance, imo, are probably prerequisites to friendship. I kinda feel like the only other things required come with time and energy - understanding, memories, good communication...
Years ago, on Twitter, an agent said: 'Readers want switches, not dials.' Instead of telling readers 'x is somewhat helpful, under circumstance y, for population z', just say 'do x'. It was one of the most depressing pieces of writing advice I've ever encountered, & I told him so.
Assuming everyone speaks English, Just One is the best social icebreaker game imo. But... what's your definition of an icebreaker? Would Just One fit your definition? (I guess still no polls on Bluesky?)
Whatever the heck happened to free speech????
Ryan Estrada@ryanestrada.com · last mo.A cartoonist named Daniel "Des" Rolando Sanchez Estrada was tried as a terrorist and sentenced to 30 years in prison for having anti-Trump comics in his car. Prosecutors connected him to a 2025 anti-ICE protest he didn't even attend because he was in the same book club as others who were.
For clarity, an 'ajenda' is a lion's head, with a brightly-coloured octopus body.
"Seize the Power: A game about unfairness, negotiation, and revolution" will be released next year. For the past few months, I've been trying to change the info on BGG. Removing the publisher listed, who went out of business a few years ago. The year. It's super-frustrating how long it takes.
New possible title. Please share your thoughts! Seize the Power: A game about unfairness, negotiation, and revolution
If you have energy to look at a 130-word intro for a board game (in the manual as an 'overview') and share any thoughts, please DM me.
Which is a better name for an alien currency? ₳ssets Credits
When I say "I don't need you", what I mean is, "I don't need you to be here right now for me to be able to have a chance at happiness."
Should I try to get bluesky on my phone? I'd only use it to post photos (which I generally don't have energy to do via laptop) but I might not have energy to do the alt Text always.
Wow, I'd totally forgotten that this happened! That's me in the corner. Joyful and proud. Everyone happy & loud. Maybe I WOULD enjoy going back to UKGE one day as a trader. Or maybe just asking @farplace.bsky.social if they can help me run future 2pm events. Thank you so much for sharing! ^_^
Chris Lewis@chr15lew15.bsky.social · 2mo agoMy youngest (7) is a huge fan of the drawing creatures game, especially after she won at last year's ukge! She's got about a dozen now!
