Julia Schiller

the rights to Raid the Pantry and Granny Wars. In 2015 she worked with Claire Ahuriri and James Dunning to prepare their game, Cat Capers, for publication under the Cheeky Parrot label. The following year, Cheeky Parrot ran a successful Kickstarter campaign its eventual bestseller, Hoard which was originally developed by Weta Digital artists Tim Kings-Lynne and Beck Veitch. Julia shares designing credits with the pair for the edition Cheeky Parrot published, which has now been reprinted seven times for the New Zealand and Australian markets. In 2018, Cheeky Parrot's fifth title, Flaming Pyramids, by designer Norbert Abel, was also successfully Kickstarted and published, and Flipology followed a year later. She collaborated with Korea Board Games to publish the first English language edition of the World Changers title in 2020. Cheeky Parrot's eighth title is Ulterior Design by Kiwi Andy Bell, published in 2023. Number nine is Glimstone Grab, a cooperative adventure board game set in the Hoard universe, for which Julia share designing credits with Jonathan McGarvey. In 2026, Julia published first-time designer DeMi Ernst's card game, FARMily Feud and is developing another card game with DeMi, Puppy Biz. Julia was born and raised in the USA. She has a Bachelor of Arts degree in Anthropology and French from Washington University in St. Louis. In 2000, she immigrated to Auckland, New Zealand, where she's lived ever since.