Taylor Shuss

@drawnonward.bsky.social

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Tabletop Game Designer of 🏳️‍🌈Stonewall Uprising, 🛫Fold & Fly!, 🚶🚴🚈🚌Walkable City, 🤖🗼🦎Creature Control, and 🚀🪐 Quantum Train. (he/him) Lover of Gundams, handsome men & dexterity games.

A white map with a red path coming in and going down to the right of the picture. The red paths are connected with impossibly small words by them. In the lower left of the image are more red paths but they are cut off from view.
A picture of a hex grid with a white outline and orange hexes. One hex has an outlined green square inside of it and that hex is also outlined in black. There are also four hexes grouped with a cube icon with a plus sign on them.
A picture of Bart Simpson's head with bottom text saying "Good old Luna Trigger. Nothing beats that."
A picture of a player board with dots on it. Above it is a connector board where someone has connected the dots to form some kind of vehicle?
A clear piece of plastic being held up by magnets on a tower. On the plastic are colored gems.
A table with strangely shaped rice hand-made out of clay. Next to them are sticks, a game card that has labels 1-6 with small stones above some of the numbers, and the game's box behind them.
A drawn image of a large hamster running in a clear hamster ball. They seem to be on a dirt road of some sort with grass in the foreground and a mountain with a snowy peak in the background. The hamster has a surprisingly large ass, and is shaped somewhat like a phallus.
A picture of three oddly shaped six-sided dice. They look like they are made from clay and have pips on them 1-6. One is circular, one seems kind of normal, and one looks like a log.
A bright colorful board with colored cubes on it that resembles Candyland.
A picture of 8 cards on a black background. 3 of the cards say Team X at the top, and show an anthropomorphic letter X wearing two trilbys in grayscale holding a knife. 5 cards say Team O at the top, and show an anthropomorphic letter O wearing a trilby in grayscale holding a cigar.
A built HGAW Gundam X about to fire its Satellite Cannon. It has been loosely primed in gray to make any modelling issues more obvious before I fully paint the kit.
The cover of a box for a plastic model kit for Legion, the antagonist from Gamera 2: Attack of Legion. It has a great cover art showing Legion in dramatic lighting about to face off against Gamera. All three movies in that Gamera trilogy are fantastic kaiju movies and only get more interesting as the movies go on. They also all happen to be on Amazon free if you have Prime.
A white 3d printer 6-sided die with the value ".32" and the word "Control" written on it. It is on a messy crafting mat with various tools behind it.
A screenshot of an email that reads: "Hello Taylor, I saw that {{company name}} wasn’t able to move forward with your submission. I know that’s never fun to receive — but it happens far more often than most inventors realize. One company passing doesn’t mean the opportunity isn’t real. It usually just means it wasn’t the right fit for them at this time. That’s exactly why we built [this is covered over in blue to redact the company's name.]"
The box for the Perfect Grade Unleased Nu Gundam, a 1:60 scale model kit of a giant robot from the Mobile Suit Gundam series. This model kit retails for just shy of $700 in the United States and is massive once completed.
A picture from the show G Gundam. In a ruined city it shows Master Asia's head sticking out of a glowing & spinning orb where his mobile suit, Master Gundam, is about to be launched by his student Domon Kashu piloting his own Shining Gundam. At the bottom of the image the subtitler read "Domon! Launch me!"
A picture of many cards with two emojis on each card. They are all unique emojis with no duplicates.
A plate of various types of meat on it, with some shrimp, bread, and a pile of roasted garlic.
This image shows a white bunny riding in an upside-down top hat with wheels on the bottom. Below that is a brown road with some green grass on the side, with a mountain and some bushes in the background. It is all drawn poorly and gives off a cartoonish vibe.
The cover to Driveable City, an April Fools joke on my crowdfunded game Walkable City. On the cover all the streets have been paved, the title has been changed, and the monorail above the streets has been turned into an inter-city highway.
The cover for Walkable City but it has "Dawn of the Final Day. 24 Hours Remain" from Majora's Mask overlaid on top. In the upper right corner is the creepy moon from the game towering over the city and even the title itself.
A questionably edited image of RE;MATCH at PAX East 2026. The RE;MATCH booth is brightened and the rest of the vendors are all desaturated. There is a light beckoning from the RE;MATCH booth outwards.
The title cover for Beyond Solitaire's podcast episode 229 - Taylor Shuss on Walkable City. But instead of a white background I have put a picture of myself laying on top of game's city board in the background. My eye is also in the hole of the number 9, which I did not mean to do but is pretty neato.
A quote of Ray Delahanty (City Nerd on YouTube) saying "Super fun cooperative city-building gameplay, with the most noble of objectives: to wean an entire urban population off of car dependency."
A snippet of the board from Walkable City with extra buildings on each square.
A video of someone riding a bike in a bike lane alongside a street.
The video shows a street in Seattle and starts with a car honking. The cars slow down and we see a bus at the streetlight. Pedestrians start to walk across and we can see a dedicated bike lane as well.
A picture of a kitchen scale that reads 0.14 ounces. On top of it is a plastic transparent container containing small metallic balls. To the right is some clear glue and another transparent plastic container with a stirring stick. All on top of a messy crafting desk.
A picture of a cropped youtube thumbnail with a very squished down John Company 2nd edition box. Above it is a red wax seal-esque icon with "BUY OR PASS?" on it, and behind it is an unfocused board game shelf backdrop.
The cover to Kaiju on the Earth Legends - Gamera. The box shows the most iconic Gamera kaiju in dramatic poses, published by Arclight games.
A picture of two HGUC Ball model kits on a hobby desk full of nubs, tools, and other nonsense. The balls are unfinished and lacking arms & a weapon but have been lovingly rescribed. I intend on painting them once everything is cleaned up.
A Liber Wizard model kit on an action base, floating mid air.
Me holding a Rising Sun expansion box. The box has been taped on the bottom but someone ripped into it from the side, keeping the tape intact.
A piece of paper with some poorly written notes on it for a game. There are a few cubes with an "x 3/p" next to it. It is an enigma.
A picture of a plane from the passenger door on the tarmack at an airport. The sky is a nice blue and the plane's engine is easy to see.
A picture of a copy of Fold & Fly! with 1/40 written on the cover. Behind it are 39 more copies of the game, printed and ready for PAX U.
Me holding a finished copy of Fold & Fly!
Several copies of Fold & Fly! on a chair.
A picture of several copies of Fold & Fly! on a chair.
Pieces of paper being clamped seductively. Look, this is the closest I have to a bondage picture of my game so please appreciate that I even tried!
The credits for Fold & Fly! with a covered QR code below it. The QR code is for printing extra airplane templates so you'll never run out.
Many copies of Fold & Fly on a chair with one standing above them. A jacket is on the back of the chair.
Me cutting the excess cardstock from the spine.
6 30-sheet temples cut apart from each other.
6 covers of Fold & Fly! freshly printed. I am so in love with this game's cover!
My cut out components.
Me applying the sticker paper to thin chipboard backing. The sticker paper has my components on it.
A picture of a large ream of paper with clamps on it. Below the clamps are wooden rulers to make sure it doesn't damage the paper templates.
My ET-3850 printer (which my boyfriend got for me <3) printing out airplane templates. There are cans of ink next to it plus other doo-dads.
A copy of my IGNM game, Fold & Fly!
A picture of a carton of 1500 sheets of white paper, a pack of 100 sheets of sticker paper, and a full refill of ink for an Epson printer.
A picture of a premium cut wooden board with etched icons and lines. On the board are some walls, some discs, and some cubes in two colors. In the center is a Boggle die.
A picture of a beautiful blue sky with a few clouds in the distance. Below it is a beach with waves leading out to the ocean. On the beach are a few rocks. The sky and beach are framed inside a train window, with curtains to the side.
A picture of my IGNM game Fold & Fly!, assembled with the vibrant cover on display. It is on a bed with a blanket below it. The blanket looks incredibly soft & inviting.
A quote with a slightly textured background. The quote says "In the underground world of illegal snail racing, there's no one you can trust." The quote is attributed to Slimy Mike.
The rules booklet for Greg Loring-Albright's Resilience.
A picture of a board showing 6 unique plants with generic sci-fi names like "Spiralis Prime", "Zeta Cluster B", & "Corriscus". In the center of the board is a circular chip with an arrow drawn on it. On one of the planets is a yellow spaceship token.
A picture of many people holding up signs at a local No Kings protest in Southern California.
A picture of 5 foldable pizza boxes. On the side of each is an acronym or a title. "Walkable City" & "Magellan 2" are the only ones written out in full words, where the rest say "LPF", "QT", & "BAR" on them. If you look closely you can spot some gunpla and some lube. 🤫