Catherine Stippell

@catstip.bsky.social

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Super awkward board game designer. Nyctophobia! It’s All Connected? Back to the Present? I like hats. Earthbender. (playnyctophobia on Twitter) (she/her)

A face drawn with four different colors. The face only has 4 features, ears, nose, mouth, and some freckles. Each feature is drawn on their own layer.
A close up of 2 dice. The top faces show a white ice skate in front of a rainbow gradient square.
A NY Mets baseball hat. The front logo is an upside down baseball helmet filled with vanilla soft serve
An excerpt from an Animorphs book, of characters yelling in thought-speech: <Aaaaahhh!> I yelled. <Aaaaahhh!> Marco yelled. <Aaaaahhh!> Ax agreed.
Catherine's Prototype "Bonus Hockey"... two cards are laid together to form the ice rink. A checker piece is in the space just left of center as the puck. There are two piles of custom dice, each face has a different hockey symbol like sticks or skates. There is a stack of cards representing the players. Hannah Bilka of the Seattle Torrent and Jennifer Gardiner of the Vancouver Goldeneyes are out. Beside each skater card is a goalie card.
A pile of transparent squares overlaid on each other. Each layer has a drawing in a different marker. There are some blue semi circle ears, a dog print style nose overlaying some unimpressed eyes, and floating crinkly eyebrows. The face is slightly of center to the left.
A simple cartoon-ish line drawn face. Each different fearure is a different color. A hexagon head, big blue ears, a red star nose, purple curved happy eyebrows, green long hair that floats a little over the head, a pink open mouth with a tongue.
From April 2016. A folding table with a wooden prototype of the game "Nyctophobia." At the front of the table there are a stack of black out glasses. Beside the glasses is a standing paper sign that gives a quick overview of the game.
"yeah no, women do it better" Better is in a script font with a big swoosh underneath it.
Two overlaid drawings, one in blue and one in red. Together they are meant to depict a recognizable cartoon character.... it's supposed to be a scooby doo. A dog nose, ears and collar are kind of visible together.
A small poster sign that says "Wee! Woo! Win!" With a picture of the three Sirens capitals in one corner and coach Fargo in the other. There's a hand drawn siren and hockey stick and puck as well.
A white pit bull mix with a few light brown spots stands in the entrance of a hallway. The sun is shining in from behind and down the hall, giving the dog a nice glow.
YouTube listing of a video titled "Solo Journaling rpgs, writing, and you! they're awesome" by the channel Michael Regina. The thumbnail includes Michael holding a fan of solo rpg books. You can just make out one of them as The Portal at Hill House.
A porcelain urn, painted with pink and purple-y flowers and green leaves.
The bottom of a framed vacuum bag advert. The text reads "Troublesome - Unhealthful, Fills the lungs with germ laden dust" the middle arm of the E extends farther than the top and bottom ones. It's very weird typography.
A nickel sized silver coin in palm. Imprinted on the coin is the phrase “What you do matters.”
A 4 panel comic by Chris Hallbeck. 1: A stick figure mom holds a hand of cards. They show one to the other stick figure. She says “Is this your card?” The child says “Mom, stop trying to distract me.” 2: the mom holds another card and asks again, “Is this your card?” The child says “No, put the cards down, I’m trying to tell you something important.” 3: A close up of the face of another card. The ace of spades. The spade is striped in the asexual flag, black-grey-white-purple. The mom says “ is this you?” 4: the mom and child share big smiles. The child looks teary eyed.
Four $2 bills fanned out.
A slightly cracked cement wall, a white light gray color. In front of it is my car windshield, covered in rain drops everywhere. They’re all relatively the same size and very circular.
The victory screen for Pokemon TCGP app. It shows I won, going second with only 2 turns played. I scored 1 point and dealt 60 damage. The card of the game is an Eevee. The cards ability says, “Flip a coin until it lands on tails. This attack does 20 damage for each heads.”
Hitter. Hacker. Grifter. Thief. Long ago, these four people worked alone. Then, everything changed when they got a job from Dubenich. Only Nathan Ford, a drunk ex-insurance guy, could wrangle them into a team. But after they finished the job, they split and vanished. A couple months passed and the team got back together under a new alias, Leverage Consulting & Associates. Although the rich and powerful take what they want…I believe, Leverage can steal it back for you.
A paper restaurant placemat with paths drawn on it formed of circles and lines. Each circle has a shape in it. The 2 paths connect. Various hole punch bits are scattered on the placemat. Two cards are laid on the top corner of the placemat. The cards show a gird of shapes, some spaces on the grid are punched out. A small single hole puncher is below the placemat.
A top down shot of two pieces of printer paper placed next to each other forming one big sheet. At the top is a metal single hole puncher. There are some hole punch bits spread across the paper. A pen is off to the side. There are some drawn circles connected by lines drawn on each paper forming a path. There are 2 cards, each with holes punched out and grids of colorful shapes.
Screen shot of the Time Limit notification on iPhone Time Limit You’ve reached your limit on boardgamegeek.com
A shot of a theater stage from the mezzanine section toward the left of stage. The stage has a small orchestra and a screen background with the Avatar Studios logo.
A drawing of a horseshoe crab upside down, at an angle of 30 degrees. Its little legs are poking up out of the shell for swimming. The legs are very long and vaguely look like mannequin arms.
A 3x4 grid. 1. A bug, a clown head and 2 red balloons, a hand doing a peace sign, grain and the letter D. 2. A stoplight, the green light is on with a sushi inside it 3. A camel at the top of the box 4. Word “LAN” repeating around a right corner. An arrow follows the corner 5. A suntanned person. The letters CA are pale on their chest 6. A rhino head. Sound waves are coming from its ear. A letter O 7. The best of a horse, the male symbol on it. A clicking hand with an X on it. 8.a baseball mitt, a crescent moon is inside it. 9. A person with a paint tray, an arrow points to a city skyline, a TF with the F circled 10. A tank with the letter H, a crossed out circle over it. 11.OLCROKE 12. 5 clocks in a row
A full length mirror selfie of Catherine with one hand in her pocket. She is in an all black suit; the shirt a solid black satiny blouse tucked into ankle length pants. The black jacket is open, unbuttoned. Shoes are flat black loafers with a decorative silver buckle type thing. She has some soft natural looking makeup on and her shoulder length hair has a bit of a subtle wave to it around her ears down.
A purple silhouette of a simple swan. There are things white lines peaking underneath the silhouette. The swan is over a free handed light blueish green circle
A large white paper sign on a telephone pole. The sign reads in all capital letters: Saturday Sept 21st 8am - 2pm TAKE MY EX’s STUFF YARD SALE IT’S ALL GOTTA GO! JUST LIKE HIM! The address is redacted at the bottom.
A picture of Catherine, in an open blue button down with a white shirt tucked into grey pants, laughing and standing in front of a green and white flower wall with a white neon sign that says “Love” in script.
A virtual certificate with text "Celebrating 10M users on Bluesky, #2,438,568, Catherine Stippell ‪@catstip.bsky.social‬, joined on Dec 8, 2023"
A full box of packages of developed pictures. The pack envelopes as on their side making two tightly packed rows. A CVS branded package is laid flat on top of the two rows.
A script excerpt. Joe: [pause] if you hurt my girl, you will answer directly to me, and whatever crimes I commit against you, remember, I have diplomatic immunity in 46 countries, including Puerto Rico. Viscount Mabrey: Sir, you will find that the word “fear” is not in my vocabulary Joe: Perhaps… but it’s in your eyes.
A black grid filled with uniquely colored lines that start and end with a large circle of their color. The grid is full and no lines overlap.
A screenshot from twitter posted October 19, 2019. Text reads “And started up a new design, “Raindrop Race” You race to have your 3 raindrops (needles) reach the bottom of the car window before your opponents.” Below that is a picture, top down overhead view of a table. There is a tall white grid, 5x10 spaces. Some spaces have little shiny stones of the different player colors. Some spaces have hand drawn tiles with raindrops and a number inside them. Some other spaces have road like segments drawings on them.
7 Unpub name badges, arranged in 2 rows. Each badge has a different color and design. All say “Unpub” and “Catherine Stippell.”
An offset grid of 8 playing cards each with a brick wall pattern on it. Some spaces are marked with a blue or red trail line. There is a red meeple on a space shared with a small black cube.
A board game prototype box labeled “You Got Hacked.” A windows screensaver is the tablet on the table filled with little word search cards.
A excerpt from an email: “You explorers 0 out of the 148 games we unleashed in 2023! While it’s a modest start, every game is a new adventure waiting to happen. Let’s spice things up in 2024- more games, more thrill!” “0 out of the 148” is edited to be highlighted
A tweet from Catherine from May 12, 2022. “A two player game where one player only discards cards and the other player only draws cards.”
A close up picture of a board game box with a Lego pyramid type structure on top of it. The structure is full of faceup and face down cards laid atop it. Some cards are hanging off the box but aren’t touch the floor yet.