I ❤️ people, music, expression, games. Designed #Yogi @ELL_deck #KittyCataclysm #BezzyBargainBags. Occasional impromptu streams. Available to hire. (she)
Joined February 2014
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28 Aug 2025
Do you think that randomised products are inherently problematic?
Would you agree with this 2001 article?
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5 Aug 2025
Making a point to remember compliments about me or my stuff.
"I don't know why Yogi isn't sold in every supermarket, every bookshop, every airport..."
- Adam Porter
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21 Jul 2025
boardgamegeek.com/thread/324…
If you speak the language of the Netherlands and are interested in 'Last Bug Standing in the Circle of Doom', check out this review!
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27 Apr 2025
"It should be no surprise that this game is a bit different to other games you may have previously played, given it was designed by the wonderful Bez Shahriari."
😊😊😊
🥰🥰🥰
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27 Apr 2025
thedarkimp.com/blog/2023/11/…
A great article from Ellie Dix about getting the most from a boardgame playtest.
(And thanks for the wee shout-out, @EllieDixTweets!)
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12 Apr 2025
This is one of my favourite photos.
Pure joy, partially facilitated by me.
I mean, sure it's about the other people around the table. About the ambiance. Having suitable clothes for the temperature. But the game does make a difference imo. :-p
1 Mar 2023
It's so rare for me to get a picture taken of me playing games, and at a work thing recently my boss took this picture of me playing @stuffByBez's Yogi. This is pretty much my face when playing most board games, which leads me to conclude I'm in the right hobby!
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23 Mar 2025
Validation
A sense of purpose
Intellectual curiousity
Love of the medium
Money
Fame
Collaboration.
Wanting X to exist.
I want to facilitate fun, or spark someone to ponder, or sometimes just see how something works.
Some stuff I will design with a more commercial mindset.
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5 Mar 2025
ICYMI:
I like this comic.
Honestly, sometimes it's just cool to know a comic artist (occasionally) engages with one of your other passions.
tapas.io/episode/2901117
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24 Feb 2025
To me, this evokes memories of the Moomins. Relatively simple art leaves spaces for our imagination to fill in the gaps.
But aesthetically, these colours are LUSH.
And I also love how the colours are used to draw our eye to the centre of the frame.
11 Mar 2024
Nighttime walkers by Freya Hartas
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#moreillustration #childrenswritersguild #childrensillustration #childrensbookillustration #iloveillustrators #childrens_illustration #illustrationforkids #childrensbooks #picturebookillustration #fairytale #folktale
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2 Feb 2025
I need to hold onto these reminders that I have managed to indirectly spark joy and facilitate fun.
That makes me feel proud and super-validated. :-)
23 Dec 2023
Had an absolutely silly & fun time with Yogi by @stuffByBez. You draw a card, follow the instructions (usually related to a pose you must maintain), and keep going round and round adding more instructions to follow until everyone breaks except one. Thanks for the fun game Bez!
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2 Dec 2024
Sometimes, I need someone or something to remind me I'm worth taking care of.
Because that's something worth me taking time/energy to do.
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1 Dec 2024
Would you pay a negligible amount of money to play something I made?
Unoriginal rules.
New content.
Pushed to the limit for a special friend who knows the silliness I'm capable of and trusted me to make something cool.
4-9 players?
To be played over a multi-hour dinner event.
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27 Nov 2024
"Last Bug Standing in the Circle of Doom! is a great 2-player abstract strategy game that’ll keep you coming back for more."
"It’s a really delicious challenge that tickles parts of my brain that other games certainly don’t."
tabletopgamesblog.com/2023/1…
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24 Nov 2024
I love this. Not just the execution of the illustration (lovely colours/lines) but also I think I intrinsically love the concepts where we are shown a relatable humanoid with a very different perspective (e.g. very small).
12 Mar 2024
Spring snow by Freya Hartas
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#snow #moreillustration #childrenswritersguild #childrensillustration #childrensbookillustration #iloveillustrators #picturebooks #picturebook #childrens_illustration #best_of_illustrations #kidlit #childrensbooks
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17 Nov 2024
Riding a bicycle. Distraction. Wire suddently around my wheel. Cart in the middle of the road. Ouch.
Got stitches.
Will be OK soon.
A visceral reminder to be careful and to probably pull over if I'm ever distracted again.
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15 Nov 2024
Would you rather replay a game you always win against me, or one you always lose against me? :-p
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13 Nov 2024
#SimpleGamesForComplicatedTimes
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Your mission, if you choose to accept it, is to acquire water in a vessel. Anywhere from 500ml (1-pint-ish) to 1.5l.
Then, drink all the water within the next 24 hrs.
Not every accomplishment worth doing is super-challenging.
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13 Nov 2024
Vague ideas for noisy creatures:
Big Bootylicious
Basically Biblical
Blue Biographical
Genuinely Geological
Mad Mythical
Disturbingly Destructible
Vain Vegetable
Dark Diabolical
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Bez retweeted
12 Nov 2024
I will be doing a 'Best of Bez' digital-only KS at some point in the not-too-distant future.
What would you like to see in the digital bundle?
(And please back for £1 and share it when the time comes. You'll get a bunch of great stuff and help allow me to keep making stuff.)
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