Bez Shahriari

a game system for which games are continuing to be designed and developed. Kitty Cataclysm (2019) involves card play, chaos, cat puns, and the "opawrtunity to get your claws out." In 2021, Bez started using small scale 'print on demand' services to create the 'Bezzy Bargain Bags', which allows for some experimentation without the risk of printing 1000+ copies. Bez is looking to license any of these games to larger international publishers. Future self-published games include: A game, wherein you Blether[...]. Games looking for other publishers include: Seize the Power (co-designed with Tiz Creel) Everything Bez designed/published since 2018 and not listed in the DPBOP list below: Designs Published By Other Publishers: Yogi as well as Yogi Guru and Yogi 2nd edition else in the future from Gigamic Flowers in towers as part of a R&W anthology from Inkwell Games. Last Bug Standing in the Circle of Doom from Surprised Stare Games All the 'AGA--CATTITASMNoises' have been licensed to Clarendon Games, excluding France. Bez does art sometimes. Her major weaknesses are anxiety, depression, and poor organisation. As well as designing various games, Bez has helped in developing the following titles from Alley Cat Games: Pocket Sub (minor tweaks) Pocket Pharma (expansion ideas and tweaks) Welcome to Dino World (visitor cards, aviary/aquatic expansion) Coral (fish economy, 3D module, card pondering) Islands (new specialist abilities, art direction) Chocolate Factory (minor card tweaks, art direction) Bez is friends with many other UK designers and helped organise playtests in London as part of Playtest UK until she left London in December 2023. Other than exploring the world of a new game, or seeing people enjoy something she made, joys include musical performances, improvisation, dancing, comics, cycling, tasting new things, and travel. For 3 years (starting early 2020), Bez streamed every day at 10am UK, normally blethering and answering any board-game related questions. Often interviewing and chatting to other folk involved with boardgame creation/critique, and sometimes delving into short rants, unboxings, or laid-back playthroughs. Bez is a pansexual asexual trans woman, with autism, likely ADHD, and a history of depression. Though born and raised in Scotland, her parents are both Iranian and she is technically dual nationality. She is currently focusing on relocating to Thailand for financial reasons, pondering her place in the world, and writing a book about motivations in game design.