jo kelly

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or Joy if you're fancy maker of music and games morris dancer they/them

A picture of the board game Santiago - a bunch of cubes of different colours on a bunch of tiles of different colours on a decidedly beige board with a square grid. It's a lot more exciting than it looks.
A photo of a board game prototype, showing several cards with the word JEGGINGS written on them in dry-erase marker and smaller cards with one letter on each arranged to spell JEGGING?
A photo of the board game The Old King's Crown. It's a beautiful game, but the focus is on the card that ruined our lives: the cracked sundial. Also there is a wooden choo-choo meeple in the background that I love. I said 'choo-choo' every time I put it out.
A prototype of the game WENDYBUXXX, which comes in a VHS box. The cover features a drawing of Wendy Miasma, and ten half-face portraits of the contestants and lifestyle archetypes.
An image from the game Wanderstop. A large, kindly man called Boro looks at the main character, a stern fighter called Alta, on a bench in the woods. He says, 'Excellent, it is good to be sharing your company.'
A page from the Guardian's Culture magazine, showing an illustration of a spinner (like from board games of yore) pointing to 'game on' and announcing 'The 30 best board games to play this Christmas, picked by the experts'
The final state of a game of The Old King's Crown, an incredibly beautiful, lusciously illustrated board game.
First page of the review of Molly House from the latest issue of Senet Magazine. Features a picture of a metal pawn, and a wooden pawn on the board.
It is undeniable. The Kniziathon Leaderboard shows my name with a gold medal with '1st' written on it, and so I must accept victory.
Jo Kelly (me!) holding a copy of the board game Molly House at Excelsior!, a board game shop on Bristol
Rachel Ford and I talking to an attendee at the Molly House meet and greet event at the Wehrlegig stand. (Thanks to Liz Davidson for the candid pic!)
Poster with details for Playtest UK Bristol: Friday 23rd May, Excelsior!, 51-53 Merchant Street, Bristol, BS1 3EE, 10:30-16:30
The end state of a game of Winter Rabbit. Vibrant colours belie a devastating loss for all players.
A game of Winter Rabbit set up on the table. From my point of view, I'm playing the purple Opossum, I have two pieces of game (as in animal meat) and I have a card showing I've built a canoe. The game is vibrant and colourful and full of beautiful art by indigenous American artists.
Poster advertising Playtest UK Bristol event. Friday 28th March, Excelsior!, 51-53 Merchant Street, Bristol BS1 3EE, 10:30 - 16:30
Graphic promoting new Playtest UK event in Bristol. Text reads: Playtest UK coming to Bristol - Friday 21st February, Left Handed Giant Brewpub, BS1 6EU, 12:00 - 17:00
The end state of a game of the board game High Tide. Wooden hexagonal pieces in three colours (blue, pink and off-white) stacked up in towers of different sizes on a screen-printed, beach themed board.
Not quite finished look at the Wehrlegig booth at PAX Unplugged 2024, featuring a big Molly House banner, a mirror and dress-up table with wigs and masks, a sofa and a table with the board game Molly House set up on it.
A prototype of the board game Molly House.
A prototype of the word game Squirl. This player's sheet shows that they've made the words EMBARK, ZEN, GNAT, GHOST and POD for a total score of 118. Not bad!