Stuff by Bez
About
Games that foster connections. Laugh together. Connect with the world around you.
Lots of party games, many word games, a few light strategic games, and even a couple of mid-weight strategy games.
This is the place to be for simple rules mixed with frivolity, whimsy, and strategy.
Some of the games are great for well-behaved children.
Games
A game about all alphabetical creatures and trying to identify them after someone makes noises.
Say your name in a scared/shouty/quiet/whatever way to get folk to guess the mystery creature.
Available in both B&W and colour forms.
A game about making wordy connections.
Walk around, making surreal poetry.
A game about mini missions to maximise joy.
For people who sometimes feel a bit low and would like some prompts to start their day.
A game about sequencing screenshots of an old animation with 50 bits of writing by 50 writers.
For people who like thinking about IP.
Try to place screenshots from Plane Crazy (1928) in the correct sequence.
Place 4 screenshots correctly to win!
Each card is double-sided; one side has a screenshot and a caption, whilst the other side will also show the timestamp of when the screenshot occurs in the animation.
The side with the timestamp also features a bit of writing, to hopefully spark thoughts and conversation about the nature of IP protection for art, animations, music, and game rules.
Full credits
Project management: Bez Shahriari
Art: Ub Iwerks
designer: apologies
Graphic Design: Jack Briggs-Miller
Writers:
Bez Bonnie-Beth Shahriari
Glenn Ford
Phil Vizcarro
Steve Dee
Matt Fantastic
Tiz Creel
Xoe Allred
James Wallis
Tom Coldron
Chloe Mashiter
Alan Paull
Jessica Metheringham
Matthew Dunstan
Laura Wood
phyphor
Jason Perez
Heather Newton
David Brain
Kate Finch
Mike Nudd
Iain Cameron
Charlie Paull
Doruk Kicikoglu
Jantien Kwekkeboom
Jason Slingerland
Geoff Engelstein
Daniel Danzer
Andy Lawrence
Kirsten Lunde
Faranak Clinder
Kerry Levere
Ryan Estrada
Aaron Blows
Ellie Dix
Jack Quy
Stuart Green
Bree Goldman
Sen-Foong Lim
PPanda
Beth Jackson
Dylan Coyle
Kathleen Mercury
Nico Straccia
Caylie Sadin & Dina Ramse
James Hitchmough
Jo Kelly
Vegard Farstad
Calvin Wong
Rose Atkinson
Eric M. Lang
A game about taking turns, bidding on stuff, aiming for majorities.
A quick strategic auction game which allows you to ponder numbers, and sometimes push your luck thanks to the variable ending.
Auction Land!
Make an island full of peace, love, and music.
A game about choosing tiles, auctioning tiles, and placing those tiles to maximise points. Features bonuses for lines of 4 and other features that make it surprisingly strategic.
CATEGORICKELL
A new typeface for the ELL deck, with which you can play a WHOLE BUNCH of wordgames! Categorickell is all about finding words that fit the category, with a teeny-tiny bit of dexterity.
designed by Tom Coldron.
Kitty Cataclysm v2
Cat puns, chaos, combos, and the paw-sibility to get your claws out.
A few tweaks, bringing this game back after 4 years of absence.
Questabell
As magical librarians, protect the sanctity of the Mystical Library. Co-operate through 50 quests to make words and combat the diabolical wizard Jack Q. Vexez and his evil henchmen Fyp and Pyf.
Each level has unique objectives/restrictions and they start from easy (suitable for learning the game, or for challenging children), progressing up to tricky and ultimately diabolical levels, which will challenge even the finest wordsmiths in the land!
Generally working on 2 words at once, players will take turns to place a card at the start or end of one of these lines, aiming to turn a line into a word.
Each level might see restrictions on what letters you can use, remove letters from the deck, force you to use certain letters to beat the level, or even do something totally different!