Amanda 🏳️‍⚧️💜

@subsurfaceamy.bsky.social

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Board gamer, designer and trans mom. I blog about game design on SubsurfaceGames.ca She/Her

A backyard covered in loads of snow
An ankle neotrad tattoo of a woman in a red bathing suit hugging a shark jumping out of the water.
Kickstarter page for Puppets in High Places. 69 backers.
A Steam screenshot of Hades. Playtime: 133.4 hours.
"7 Days to Launch", written in bold red letters over an ominous grayscale city background
KS Pre-launch page for Puppets in High Places, a Cutthroat game for 1-2 mob bosses set in a noir Prohibition era. 100 followers.
BG stats play of With a Smile & a Gun Amanda 41 Olivia 53
A D&D Stat Block, noting attacks as Multi attack, Grab, and Gaymaker.
Pre launch page for Puppets in High Places, with 69 followers
A screenshot of the pre launch page for Puppets in High Places, showing 61 followers
A paper prototype version of Puppets in High Places, with random icons and texts on otherwise white paper.
A copy of Skyrise in it's shipping box
Excitement level Select an option or create one: Very High High Medium Low
Choose an option to select: SHELF BLU SBX DEV WAL PRD
Example of an entry on Notion: Puppets in High Places Stages: PRD Excitement: High A game with: A rondel you can modify and a dynamic tug-of-war What's this again?: Sequel to WSG So what now?: Build reviewer copies
A screengrab of a table on Notion, with columns named "Project Title", "Stage", "Excitement", and "What's this again".
A box filled with cubes, meeples, and other similar wooden components
The cover to a board game titled Puppets in High Places. It depicts the inside of a speakeasy in black and white. Every character is tied by strings to puppeteers crossguards at the top of the picture. At the bottom are credits: Design by Amanda Vallerand, Art by Jon Merchant, and published by Subsurface Games.
A screen grab from Slay the Spire showing an Ironclad with 38 Fire Breathing
A hand of Linko with 4 wild cards
BG Stats 5 x 5. Play count: 4: Lost Ruins of Arnak; 3: Arkham Horror: The Card Game; 3: Dorfromantik: The Board Game; 3: Crack List; 3: Turn the Tide; 3: Linko!; 2: Power Grid; 2: Bamboo; 2: Barrage; 2: Margraves of Valeria; 2: Wyrmspan; 2: Dead Man's Cabal; 2: Abyss; 2: Coloretto; 2: Dice Stars; 2: That's Not a Hat; 1: My Father's Work; 1: Nations; 1: The Castles of Burgundy; 1: Rebuilding Seattle; 1: Rococo: Deluxe Edition; 1: Yokohama; 1: Heaven & Ale; 1: Scholars of the South Tigris; 1: The Artemis Project.
As a game of Oranienberger Kanal is being played, there are two Costco sized bags of candy on the table
A picture of Dead Man's Cabal mid game
BG Stats 5 x 5. Play count: 10: Forest Shuffle; 6: Arkham Horror: The Card Game; 5: The Castles of Burgundy; 5: Lost Ruins of Arnak; 4: Patterns: A Mandala Game; 3: Pioneer Rails; 3: Crack List; 3: Gudetama: The Tricky Egg Card Game; 3: Mandala; 2: Res Arcana; 2: Boba Mahjong; 2: Coloretto; 2: Turn the Tide; 2: DONUTS; 1: Underwater Cities; 1: Nucleum; 1: Terracotta Army; 1: Woodcraft; 1: In the Hall of the Mountain King; 1: The Godfather: Corleone's Empire; 1: Scholars of the South Tigris; 1: First in Flight; 1: Flamecraft; 1: The Castles of Tuscany; 1: San Francisco...
A screenshot of the end of a game of Dominion against the medium AI, which got trounced 51 to -1
A screenshot from BGStats, showing 100 plays of Arkham Horror LCG.
5 steel backed rulers in shrink wrap
A BGStats screenshot of a game of Warsaw City of Ruins, where Amy loses 102-56 to her beloved wife
Title line for an email: "some thoughts for you, *ifname*"
A player's area mid-game of Cascadia. There are three Landmarks tokens on tiles, new pieces from the expansion.
Three replies: First says "Same Size", or answer A Second says "Always B" Third says "Yes."
The Steam page for Mosa Lina, with art reminescent of a kids' chalk drawings
Cover of Fische Fluppen Frikadellen, in usual 2F green, starring a woman smoking while working a kiosk that sells cigarettes, burgers, and fish
The board of sail, mid-game. A board represents the sea, littered with islands, kraken tentacles, and storm clouds, with one ship sailing through.
A copy of Flee Mortals
A player board for Fit To Print, where the newspaper is absolutely littered with ads.
Romi Rani's insert, cardstock folded to form two small boxes in the box, each with a lid.