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.
Designer, developer, illustrator, rules writer/editor. Available for hire.
Learning Thai.
If you are reading this, please reply with pictures of baby birds.
Let's gather all the chick pics!
Let's gather all the chick pics!
October 30, 2025 at 4:16 PM
If you are reading this, please reply with pictures of baby birds.
Let's gather all the chick pics!
Let's gather all the chick pics!
1st August is BEZ DAY and every year, I publish a new 'headliner' game for the ELL deck.
If you don't already have an ELL deck, celebrate the start of August by cutting out a few cards with which you can play LOADS of games!
If you don't already have an ELL deck, celebrate the start of August by cutting out a few cards with which you can play LOADS of games!
August 1, 2025 at 9:15 PM
1st August is BEZ DAY and every year, I publish a new 'headliner' game for the ELL deck.
If you don't already have an ELL deck, celebrate the start of August by cutting out a few cards with which you can play LOADS of games!
If you don't already have an ELL deck, celebrate the start of August by cutting out a few cards with which you can play LOADS of games!
New game for free!
BANKABELL
Solo or 2p.
Making words. Banking and/or getting new cards.
Starting with simpler letters and building up to the trickiest ones.
Rules are here: stuffbybez.com/ell
And if you don't have an ELL deck already, DM me within the next week ish and I'll send you a PnP version!
BANKABELL
Solo or 2p.
Making words. Banking and/or getting new cards.
Starting with simpler letters and building up to the trickiest ones.
Rules are here: stuffbybez.com/ell
And if you don't have an ELL deck already, DM me within the next week ish and I'll send you a PnP version!
August 1, 2025 at 9:15 PM
New game for free!
BANKABELL
Solo or 2p.
Making words. Banking and/or getting new cards.
Starting with simpler letters and building up to the trickiest ones.
Rules are here: stuffbybez.com/ell
And if you don't have an ELL deck already, DM me within the next week ish and I'll send you a PnP version!
BANKABELL
Solo or 2p.
Making words. Banking and/or getting new cards.
Starting with simpler letters and building up to the trickiest ones.
Rules are here: stuffbybez.com/ell
And if you don't have an ELL deck already, DM me within the next week ish and I'll send you a PnP version!
The 2025 ELL deck game is Bankabell.
A 1-2 player word game about using the trickier letters, buying cards, banking cards, and trying to make sets of numbers.
It'll be publicly available on 1st August.
Image of page 1 but not necessarily final graphic design. Input welcome.
A 1-2 player word game about using the trickier letters, buying cards, banking cards, and trying to make sets of numbers.
It'll be publicly available on 1st August.
Image of page 1 but not necessarily final graphic design. Input welcome.
July 11, 2025 at 7:06 PM
The 2025 ELL deck game is Bankabell.
A 1-2 player word game about using the trickier letters, buying cards, banking cards, and trying to make sets of numbers.
It'll be publicly available on 1st August.
Image of page 1 but not necessarily final graphic design. Input welcome.
A 1-2 player word game about using the trickier letters, buying cards, banking cards, and trying to make sets of numbers.
It'll be publicly available on 1st August.
Image of page 1 but not necessarily final graphic design. Input welcome.
red is a good colour to wear imo.
June 9, 2025 at 4:20 PM
red is a good colour to wear imo.
If you're at UKGE, maybe come over to one (or more) of my 2pm events.
Friday 2pm, I'll be celebrating the 10-year anniversary of In A Bind/Yogi.
Some folk will be playing a dexterity game, whilst others will be playing a 'stock market' game - betting on the 'contorting companies'!
3A-769
Friday 2pm, I'll be celebrating the 10-year anniversary of In A Bind/Yogi.
Some folk will be playing a dexterity game, whilst others will be playing a 'stock market' game - betting on the 'contorting companies'!
3A-769
May 28, 2025 at 6:34 AM
If you're at UKGE, maybe come over to one (or more) of my 2pm events.
Friday 2pm, I'll be celebrating the 10-year anniversary of In A Bind/Yogi.
Some folk will be playing a dexterity game, whilst others will be playing a 'stock market' game - betting on the 'contorting companies'!
3A-769
Friday 2pm, I'll be celebrating the 10-year anniversary of In A Bind/Yogi.
Some folk will be playing a dexterity game, whilst others will be playing a 'stock market' game - betting on the 'contorting companies'!
3A-769
I always try to print a few cat a logs to hand out at UKGE.
If you're there, feel free to come and grab a sticker (or 2 or 3).
(There are also some 'secret' stickers for folk who join my daily 2pm events.)
I'll be skipping next year (at minimum) as a trader.
#ukgamesexpo
If you're there, feel free to come and grab a sticker (or 2 or 3).
(There are also some 'secret' stickers for folk who join my daily 2pm events.)
I'll be skipping next year (at minimum) as a trader.
#ukgamesexpo
May 7, 2025 at 8:45 AM
I always try to print a few cat a logs to hand out at UKGE.
If you're there, feel free to come and grab a sticker (or 2 or 3).
(There are also some 'secret' stickers for folk who join my daily 2pm events.)
I'll be skipping next year (at minimum) as a trader.
#ukgamesexpo
If you're there, feel free to come and grab a sticker (or 2 or 3).
(There are also some 'secret' stickers for folk who join my daily 2pm events.)
I'll be skipping next year (at minimum) as a trader.
#ukgamesexpo
I'm an audhd depressive trans woman.
I've self-published around 20 games. One was licensed by Gigamic and ended up selling a bunch, but I'm proudest of "A game about drawing creatures, complimenting the drawings, then complimenting the compliments."
I've self-published around 20 games. One was licensed by Gigamic and ended up selling a bunch, but I'm proudest of "A game about drawing creatures, complimenting the drawings, then complimenting the compliments."
May 3, 2025 at 6:05 PM
I'm an audhd depressive trans woman.
I've self-published around 20 games. One was licensed by Gigamic and ended up selling a bunch, but I'm proudest of "A game about drawing creatures, complimenting the drawings, then complimenting the compliments."
I've self-published around 20 games. One was licensed by Gigamic and ended up selling a bunch, but I'm proudest of "A game about drawing creatures, complimenting the drawings, then complimenting the compliments."
I'm designing some games* for a social gathering on Saturday** and I'm really enjoying working on stuff that's totally outside the scope of BGG.
*opt-in activities with rules/clarity and some agency. No explicit measure of success, as it happens.
** www.meetup.com/bkklgbt/even...
*opt-in activities with rules/clarity and some agency. No explicit measure of success, as it happens.
** www.meetup.com/bkklgbt/even...
March 27, 2025 at 5:07 AM
I'm designing some games* for a social gathering on Saturday** and I'm really enjoying working on stuff that's totally outside the scope of BGG.
*opt-in activities with rules/clarity and some agency. No explicit measure of success, as it happens.
** www.meetup.com/bkklgbt/even...
*opt-in activities with rules/clarity and some agency. No explicit measure of success, as it happens.
** www.meetup.com/bkklgbt/even...
2. Wish You Were Here, by Pink Floyd.
Most of the tracks' running time is instrumental, except for the eponymous song - a 5 minute ballad to a lost friend.
A strong narrative through-line, beautiful screaming guitars, soft, yet powerful, drumming.
A reminder to enjoy life and all it has.
Most of the tracks' running time is instrumental, except for the eponymous song - a 5 minute ballad to a lost friend.
A strong narrative through-line, beautiful screaming guitars, soft, yet powerful, drumming.
A reminder to enjoy life and all it has.
January 27, 2025 at 10:00 PM
2. Wish You Were Here, by Pink Floyd.
Most of the tracks' running time is instrumental, except for the eponymous song - a 5 minute ballad to a lost friend.
A strong narrative through-line, beautiful screaming guitars, soft, yet powerful, drumming.
A reminder to enjoy life and all it has.
Most of the tracks' running time is instrumental, except for the eponymous song - a 5 minute ballad to a lost friend.
A strong narrative through-line, beautiful screaming guitars, soft, yet powerful, drumming.
A reminder to enjoy life and all it has.
1. Songkran. Thai New Year. A ridiculous waterfight. Trucks, with a barrel of water, pumping it at passers by.
Water thrown at motorcycles.
They made the roadfights illegal last year but it still happens.
There are unspoken rules about where/who to shoot. Dedicated streets closed to traffic.
Water thrown at motorcycles.
They made the roadfights illegal last year but it still happens.
There are unspoken rules about where/who to shoot. Dedicated streets closed to traffic.
January 27, 2025 at 9:27 PM
1. Songkran. Thai New Year. A ridiculous waterfight. Trucks, with a barrel of water, pumping it at passers by.
Water thrown at motorcycles.
They made the roadfights illegal last year but it still happens.
There are unspoken rules about where/who to shoot. Dedicated streets closed to traffic.
Water thrown at motorcycles.
They made the roadfights illegal last year but it still happens.
There are unspoken rules about where/who to shoot. Dedicated streets closed to traffic.
This is the 2nd one I've seen and it seems a fun idea.
One ❤️ = something I love.
A moment, food, light, warmth, safety, HRT, feedback, consideration, reviews, sunscreen, Moome/Doy, Jj, new friendships, affordability, red clothes...
But with more detail. :-p
First would be Songkran, I guess.
One ❤️ = something I love.
A moment, food, light, warmth, safety, HRT, feedback, consideration, reviews, sunscreen, Moome/Doy, Jj, new friendships, affordability, red clothes...
But with more detail. :-p
First would be Songkran, I guess.
January 27, 2025 at 9:15 PM
This is the 2nd one I've seen and it seems a fun idea.
One ❤️ = something I love.
A moment, food, light, warmth, safety, HRT, feedback, consideration, reviews, sunscreen, Moome/Doy, Jj, new friendships, affordability, red clothes...
But with more detail. :-p
First would be Songkran, I guess.
One ❤️ = something I love.
A moment, food, light, warmth, safety, HRT, feedback, consideration, reviews, sunscreen, Moome/Doy, Jj, new friendships, affordability, red clothes...
But with more detail. :-p
First would be Songkran, I guess.
I seem to have a lot of followers. Thank you for your attention!
What made you decide to follow me?
Something I made? Something I wrote? Or is it my red wardrobe? :-p
What made you decide to follow me?
Something I made? Something I wrote? Or is it my red wardrobe? :-p
January 20, 2025 at 2:02 PM
I seem to have a lot of followers. Thank you for your attention!
What made you decide to follow me?
Something I made? Something I wrote? Or is it my red wardrobe? :-p
What made you decide to follow me?
Something I made? Something I wrote? Or is it my red wardrobe? :-p
I'm OK-ish.
I have a lot to be not-ok about, but I am basically ok.
And i'm feeling vaguely hopeful.
Whilst I'm a bit low, kind compliments are always appreciated.
I have a lot to be not-ok about, but I am basically ok.
And i'm feeling vaguely hopeful.
Whilst I'm a bit low, kind compliments are always appreciated.
December 12, 2024 at 7:29 AM
I'm OK-ish.
I have a lot to be not-ok about, but I am basically ok.
And i'm feeling vaguely hopeful.
Whilst I'm a bit low, kind compliments are always appreciated.
I have a lot to be not-ok about, but I am basically ok.
And i'm feeling vaguely hopeful.
Whilst I'm a bit low, kind compliments are always appreciated.
What sort of style do you want? What subjects to be drawn and what sort of emotions to evoke?
Here are some B&W drawings I've done.
I won't share my current rates publicly because I'll be increasing them later but you can definitely afford me. :-p
Here are some B&W drawings I've done.
I won't share my current rates publicly because I'll be increasing them later but you can definitely afford me. :-p
November 25, 2024 at 10:14 AM
What sort of style do you want? What subjects to be drawn and what sort of emotions to evoke?
Here are some B&W drawings I've done.
I won't share my current rates publicly because I'll be increasing them later but you can definitely afford me. :-p
Here are some B&W drawings I've done.
I won't share my current rates publicly because I'll be increasing them later but you can definitely afford me. :-p
Fave things:
clarity, dancing, open conversations, human connections, games, performance
Peeves:
assumptions, disrespect, misgendering
Strengths:
creative, honest, game design/development, introspection, illustration
Weaknesses:
depression, missed social cues, very slight agoraphobia/anxiety
clarity, dancing, open conversations, human connections, games, performance
Peeves:
assumptions, disrespect, misgendering
Strengths:
creative, honest, game design/development, introspection, illustration
Weaknesses:
depression, missed social cues, very slight agoraphobia/anxiety
November 25, 2024 at 7:56 AM
Fave things:
clarity, dancing, open conversations, human connections, games, performance
Peeves:
assumptions, disrespect, misgendering
Strengths:
creative, honest, game design/development, introspection, illustration
Weaknesses:
depression, missed social cues, very slight agoraphobia/anxiety
clarity, dancing, open conversations, human connections, games, performance
Peeves:
assumptions, disrespect, misgendering
Strengths:
creative, honest, game design/development, introspection, illustration
Weaknesses:
depression, missed social cues, very slight agoraphobia/anxiety
Also some non-board/card games.
E.G. A megagame/LARP for Kings College London about how laws influence the social dynamics regarding gender.
For Now Play This, a megagame about asynchronous artistic collaboration and a thing about sharing joys and literally making a web of connections.
E.G. A megagame/LARP for Kings College London about how laws influence the social dynamics regarding gender.
For Now Play This, a megagame about asynchronous artistic collaboration and a thing about sharing joys and literally making a web of connections.
November 25, 2024 at 7:56 AM
Also some non-board/card games.
E.G. A megagame/LARP for Kings College London about how laws influence the social dynamics regarding gender.
For Now Play This, a megagame about asynchronous artistic collaboration and a thing about sharing joys and literally making a web of connections.
E.G. A megagame/LARP for Kings College London about how laws influence the social dynamics regarding gender.
For Now Play This, a megagame about asynchronous artistic collaboration and a thing about sharing joys and literally making a web of connections.
I'm verbose enough that I'm going to make this a thread.
I worked on a bunch of party games, but also some card games about positivity, like ...Drawing Creatures, Complimenting the Drawings, then Complimenting the Compliments and ...Mini Missions to Maximise Joy
I worked on a bunch of party games, but also some card games about positivity, like ...Drawing Creatures, Complimenting the Drawings, then Complimenting the Compliments and ...Mini Missions to Maximise Joy
November 25, 2024 at 7:56 AM
I'm verbose enough that I'm going to make this a thread.
I worked on a bunch of party games, but also some card games about positivity, like ...Drawing Creatures, Complimenting the Drawings, then Complimenting the Compliments and ...Mini Missions to Maximise Joy
I worked on a bunch of party games, but also some card games about positivity, like ...Drawing Creatures, Complimenting the Drawings, then Complimenting the Compliments and ...Mini Missions to Maximise Joy
Hello new bluesky peeps!
I'm Bez Bonnie-Beth Shahriari. Sometimes I design/illustrate stuff.
In A Bind (relaunched as Yogi) is my biggest seller by far.
I'm proudest of my ELL deck games, including Coupell.
...Cute Comical Creatures and Trying to Identify Them After Someone Makes Noises is cool.
I'm Bez Bonnie-Beth Shahriari. Sometimes I design/illustrate stuff.
In A Bind (relaunched as Yogi) is my biggest seller by far.
I'm proudest of my ELL deck games, including Coupell.
...Cute Comical Creatures and Trying to Identify Them After Someone Makes Noises is cool.
November 25, 2024 at 7:56 AM
Hello new bluesky peeps!
I'm Bez Bonnie-Beth Shahriari. Sometimes I design/illustrate stuff.
In A Bind (relaunched as Yogi) is my biggest seller by far.
I'm proudest of my ELL deck games, including Coupell.
...Cute Comical Creatures and Trying to Identify Them After Someone Makes Noises is cool.
I'm Bez Bonnie-Beth Shahriari. Sometimes I design/illustrate stuff.
In A Bind (relaunched as Yogi) is my biggest seller by far.
I'm proudest of my ELL deck games, including Coupell.
...Cute Comical Creatures and Trying to Identify Them After Someone Makes Noises is cool.
Lovely playtest of a game about voting on rules, and trying to match some icons whilst pondering the ramifications of potential new rules.
Plenty of structural experimentation and card design to be done but I'm tentatively happy with what Jess @dissentgames.bsky.social and I have made so far. :-)
Plenty of structural experimentation and card design to be done but I'm tentatively happy with what Jess @dissentgames.bsky.social and I have made so far. :-)
November 19, 2024 at 9:15 AM
Lovely playtest of a game about voting on rules, and trying to match some icons whilst pondering the ramifications of potential new rules.
Plenty of structural experimentation and card design to be done but I'm tentatively happy with what Jess @dissentgames.bsky.social and I have made so far. :-)
Plenty of structural experimentation and card design to be done but I'm tentatively happy with what Jess @dissentgames.bsky.social and I have made so far. :-)
What's your favourite bodypart for illustrations?
Mine might be the eye.
Or maybe legs.
Or all the limbs if you have cute little spaghetti limbs.
Or maybe wings.
I'm not sure I can pick a favourite but it might be one of the above. What are your faves?
#illustration
Photo by Carolyne Le Mare
Mine might be the eye.
Or maybe legs.
Or all the limbs if you have cute little spaghetti limbs.
Or maybe wings.
I'm not sure I can pick a favourite but it might be one of the above. What are your faves?
#illustration
Photo by Carolyne Le Mare
September 27, 2024 at 8:04 PM
What's your favourite bodypart for illustrations?
Mine might be the eye.
Or maybe legs.
Or all the limbs if you have cute little spaghetti limbs.
Or maybe wings.
I'm not sure I can pick a favourite but it might be one of the above. What are your faves?
#illustration
Photo by Carolyne Le Mare
Mine might be the eye.
Or maybe legs.
Or all the limbs if you have cute little spaghetti limbs.
Or maybe wings.
I'm not sure I can pick a favourite but it might be one of the above. What are your faves?
#illustration
Photo by Carolyne Le Mare
Ask my anything about the deck construction game I've been developing. :-p
#tabletop #DCG #cardGames
🎲 ✂️
#tabletop #DCG #cardGames
🎲 ✂️
September 26, 2024 at 11:21 AM
Ask my anything about the deck construction game I've been developing. :-p
#tabletop #DCG #cardGames
🎲 ✂️
#tabletop #DCG #cardGames
🎲 ✂️
Have you played many Deck Construction Games (where you spend time putting together your personal deck before the game)?
What was the last one you played, and what did you think of it?
#DCG #DCGs #tabletop #CCG #TCG #LCG #ECG #cardGames #tabletopGames
What was the last one you played, and what did you think of it?
#DCG #DCGs #tabletop #CCG #TCG #LCG #ECG #cardGames #tabletopGames
September 18, 2024 at 2:48 PM
Have you played many Deck Construction Games (where you spend time putting together your personal deck before the game)?
What was the last one you played, and what did you think of it?
#DCG #DCGs #tabletop #CCG #TCG #LCG #ECG #cardGames #tabletopGames
What was the last one you played, and what did you think of it?
#DCG #DCGs #tabletop #CCG #TCG #LCG #ECG #cardGames #tabletopGames
I am super-excited to see how v2 of my deck construction game goes.
My hope is to eventually end up with a small card pool, where 90% of the cards are viable options. I'm still a long way from there, but making progress.
DCG design is a lot of work! 😛
My hope is to eventually end up with a small card pool, where 90% of the cards are viable options. I'm still a long way from there, but making progress.
DCG design is a lot of work! 😛
September 9, 2024 at 4:26 PM
I am super-excited to see how v2 of my deck construction game goes.
My hope is to eventually end up with a small card pool, where 90% of the cards are viable options. I'm still a long way from there, but making progress.
DCG design is a lot of work! 😛
My hope is to eventually end up with a small card pool, where 90% of the cards are viable options. I'm still a long way from there, but making progress.
DCG design is a lot of work! 😛
Anyone want to randomly click through any of these games with me on BGA? :-p
August 27, 2024 at 9:34 AM
Anyone want to randomly click through any of these games with me on BGA? :-p