Catherine Stippell
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Catherine Stippell
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Super awkward board game designer. Nyctophobia! It’s All Connected? Back to the Present? I like hats. Earthbender. (playnyctophobia on Twitter)
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Oh hey! I legitimately just had YouTube recommend me a video (which looks like published 7 months ago)... that mentioned The Portal at Hill House.
I don’t watch rpg videos normally but I did click b/c I spotted Portal in the thumbnail. Maybe some YouTube algorithm magic?
September 21, 2025 at 11:07 PM
My grandma passed away earlier this week.
If you ever wanted to know where my creativity for my weird board games comes from, look no further than Grandma Pat. She was a zany lady and a skilled artist who made her own urn.
September 6, 2025 at 3:25 PM
We've had these old vacuum poster ads in our house for ages. And I just noticed how weird these "E"'s are. Why are the middle arms so long??
July 6, 2025 at 10:04 PM
I visited the US Holocaust Museum in DC, maybe 10+ years ago. And while there I bought a small coin that simply said “What you do matters.” I’d lost it at some point and, fittingly, found it again recently.
June 12, 2025 at 2:15 AM
Happy Pride
June 2, 2025 at 5:46 PM
Cleaning my room and found $8….
May 25, 2025 at 3:17 PM
There were perfect droplets of rain on my windshield today.
May 23, 2025 at 1:17 AM
I am good at pokemon
May 16, 2025 at 3:36 AM
I don’t know what the cross over is between Leverage & AtLA fans, but this idea came to me in the middle of the night.
April 8, 2025 at 5:47 PM
All I’m doing is making a game that has to be played in extremely specific circumstances that probably isn’t possible. I just like making things that tickle my brain.
March 19, 2025 at 3:52 AM
Okay got a prototype of “unnamed & untested thing to bring to Unpub”.
March 16, 2025 at 6:07 PM
I changed the screen time limits on my phone and totally forgot it registers Board Game Geek as a “game”
January 5, 2025 at 11:59 PM
Yeaaaahhhh Avatar in Concert
November 23, 2024 at 11:44 PM
I learned horseshoe crabs swim upside down and I hate whoever drew this picture of it. Look at those arm legs! (From Wikipedia)
November 17, 2024 at 9:01 PM
One of the things I’d done back early in the pandemic was make some board game rebus puzzles. I liked them.

So in case you missed it originally, here’s one of them.

Can you name all 12 of these gateway games?
November 15, 2024 at 6:48 PM
I don’t always dress up, but when I do it’s because I was the Maid of Honor in my sister’s wedding.
November 3, 2024 at 1:54 PM
Cleaning up my computer and found this little set of animals I did a while back. I’m quite enamored by them.
October 13, 2024 at 4:33 PM
I hope they make so much money
September 21, 2024 at 6:07 PM
It’s me
September 20, 2024 at 1:34 AM
2,438,568, my favorite number, How did they know 🤣
September 19, 2024 at 5:47 PM
There is something nice about the ancient art of rifling through the envelopes of developed pictures.
September 14, 2024 at 6:38 PM
Who knew The Princes Diaries 2 went so hard
September 8, 2024 at 4:46 AM
Reminds me of the game Flow. They give you the end points and you have to fill the grid.
August 26, 2024 at 5:34 PM
I think this may be interesting
August 25, 2024 at 12:41 AM
I think I’m going to revive an old game design. I have vague memories of working on it early in the pandemic and I do not seem to have kept any notes or rules for it. I had always liked the idea more than the game I was fiddling with, so we’ll see what happens!
August 21, 2024 at 5:43 PM