Christopher Chan-BLM

@xopherchan.bsky.social

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Art director by day and board game designer by any other time (Stalk Exchange, The Night Cage, Portents), let’s talk design and make our hobbies better, he/him, BLM

A sliced bagel on a plate on a black table in the sun piled high with finely chopped vegetables, loosely held together with some cream cheese.
A selfie with me on the left and an incredibly talented team from the game jam.
A table with a series of boards and player aids set up on it with mahjong tiles. The table cloth is blue hexagons and the Unpub ready for players sign is raised.
A paper prototype on a wooden surface. A grid of squares mostly diagonally bisected into 2 differently colored triangles and surrounded by cards pitching cauldrons with various resources hovering above them. Some of the squares have path tiles on them, each with a white and a black line. Those lines connect to each other and the cards on the outside. It has a hand written mark up that says “start” in the top left.
A hand holding a rumpled and folded sheet of letter paper with a hex grid and a score track around the edge along with some ranking columns at the bottom.
Some crazy person (the author) standing next to an end cap in the board game section of a barnes and noble pointing at board games. One hand points at the Night Cage, the other points at Stalk Exchange.
a promotional graphic from GAMA expo that reads "making game pitch videos for non-video making professionals" followed by two head shots, one of George Georgeadis of Oniro and one of Christopher Chan of Tree Horse. February 23-27, 2025. Gama.org/gamaexpo. Kentucky international Convention Center, Louisville, KY
A hand holding a copy of Carboard Ghosts by Amabel Holland over a polished brown stone surface.
A page of cursive text in a lined journal. Mostly about math.
A selfie of the author sitting in his parked car about to drive off to PAX. He’s bundled up, open mouthed with excitement and… is that a mustache? Why does he have a mustache?
The interior of a games store. I’m standing next to the assistant manager posing with a copy of Stalk Exchange in front of a display of Stalk Exchange.
A pile of printed boards and player aids scattered on the a carpeted floor. They’re spare, simple organizers mostly. The lighting could be better.
A close up of some freshly baked chocolate chip cookies cooling on a repurposed dish rack.
A simple Bluesky image that reads celebrating 10 million users, #272,044
A coffee table covered in the backs of sticker paper and rows of mahjong tiles with non traditional symbols on them.
An open bag of ruffles potato chips. The flavor: KFC original recipe chicken.
A grid of square cards with forests and castles on them.
A stack of 7 boxes and bags on a stained work table in front of a Kallax of games. Sunlight hits the boxes on one side.
An open Keurig machine with a Swiss miss hot chocolate pod in it.
A hand holding a bunch of punched chipboard sheets like a hand of cards in front of a wall of board games. The punched sheets read “Stalk Exchange” in the top left corner.
A wide angle photo of a home office filled with board games and lighting equipment. A camera mounted on a tall tripod points at a table with a prototype involving multicolored Jenga blocks.
A screenshot of an adobe illustrator workspace with various artboards scattered about. Colorful vector blocks on top of a forest of dollar signs- clear but mostly functional.
A board game box featuring a papercraft flower arrangement sits on a green surface with components artfully set up around it. There are wooden tokens with flowers on them, papercraft sheds, a board with hexagons, and cloth bags. Behind all of this is a blurry garden background.
A black metal display of board games in the Zürich airport.
A stock photo of a Swiss Army knife from above showing various implement a with a stock photo watermark reading “shutterstock.com 1677196372”
A street photograph of a bicycle parked on a rack against a concrete wall with wisteria growing above it on an overhang with lengthening shadows adding a sense of slowness to the image.
Wide angle shot of a Kengo Kuma designed cocoon room. Wood paneling and angles with a spare, modern simplicity and a Japanese soul. But tbh, it’s very small.
Wide angle shot of a Kengo Kuma designed cocoon room. Wood paneling and angles with a spare, modern simplicity and a Japanese soul. But tbh, it’s very small.
A cliff side in Lauterbrunnen on a cloudy day. It forms a snaking ridge where 3 waterfalls are visible. It’s austere and majestic but fun fact: if I’d tilted the camera down a few degrees you’d see a port-a-potty in the foreground.
Grassy fields in the foreground. A waterfall falling from a sheer face, its source obscured by a misty cloud.
A view from a cable car with a dirty window. The Matterhorn is in a mist on the left and in the foreground are rocks and a cable car line. It’s as foreboding as it was windy.
A nightscape of the rooftops of Zermatt with a mountain in the background. The mountain is lit up with eerie purple light as the windows of the town below glow with warm yellow.
An ultra wide angle shot of the visitor center at CERN in the morning. The sun rises over a tubular building .
A wide angle shot of a twisty glass and concrete building with a strikingly large span without any columns in the morning sun.
A cow looking at the camera on a green pasture with a blue sky and hills in the background.
The Author outside a clay colored storefront in Solothurn for a board game store called Spielhimmel. He proudly presents two games, Urbino and Mixtour.
A snow capped mountain with a lake in the foreground reflecting it and the sky.
A low angle show of Vitrahaus on a cloudy day. It looks like a topped Jenga tower
A hill on a mountain side with a house and a radio tower on it.
A plate of raclette cheese melted over potatoes with pickles on the side.
A view framed by an airplane window of farmland and a wing over a town of orderly houses on a sunny day in Switzerland.
A large display of mass market and hobby games in an airport store. 4 shelves deep. There are actually even more above it. Europe is wild.
A reflective black stone surface with a hangar window behind it.jets of water and plane.
A black tablecloth table with a multicolored Jenga tower surrounded by multicolored map tiles. An unpub sign in the foreground. It reads Stack Crash! 3-6 players ages 8+ 20 minutes.
A photograph of a board with multicolored marbles on it and a track design reminiscent of a tall gumball machine. Text on it reads "Bubblegum Bubble, a game by Christopher Chan 2-4 players, 30-40 minutes, ages 10+, Stocks! Sliding! Cash Free! Gateway"
A multicolored Jenga tower on an office floor on a black T shirt. At the top of it are a set of plain wooden cubes.
A game board on a table with a play mat to mute sound. There is a grid map covered in a network of colored blocks. There’s a card river in the foreground. A Jenga tower, which has collapsed is in the back.
A boat game prototype on a beat up work table. A quad grid loosely depicting a landscape with colored Jenga style blocks on it.
A craft table with stacks of cardboard and sticker paper next to a rotary paper cutter. Screaming cartoon possum heads are on the sticker paper.
A bar graph with 7 ratings, broken up into 4 color color coded bars per rating. The effect, overall, is a bell curve. One bar is for engagement, one bar is for Originality of Theme, one bar is for Originality of Mechanics, and one bar is for an Overall Rating.
A board game featuring a hex-hex grid themed after a forest surrounded on three sides by rough vector-style mountains, water, and desert. There are birds, wooden snails, and reversi pieces placed about it about it. A hand is holding a bird piece making a move.
A screenshot of a vocabulary term in the Drops app (Cantonese). The word is “Student Loans” and the accompanying vector illustration is of a hunched, miserable looking person in a cap and gown chained to a money bag at least half their size.
A hand holding a box labeled Possum flavored candy canes featuring a cheerful illustration of a possum dressed like a depression era hobo in a metal pot full of beans.
A calico cat on a cat bed next to a stuffed calico cat.
8 printer cleaning check pages arranged in two rows. The first row is very patchy and it gradually improves by the 8th but isn’t fully resolved.
An old pin button on a composite stone surface featuring Bilbo from Ralph Bakshi’s animated Lord of the Rings movie. Bilbo looks contentedly through the viewer like a hobbit who has been puffing and puffing and puffing on his hobbit pipe all day.
A square photo of an Asian woman behind a booth with a banner labeled “Odd Stuff” and various prints bags and the like scattered about.
A game of Suspend in a hotel kitchen with two metal rods improbably balanced on the tips of other hanging metal rods.
The Unpub room in pac Unplugged a set for the prototype of Possums in a Trenchcoat behind an Unpub sign. Tiles and dials and a possum standee.
A hand in a car holding a letter sized flyer with a macro photo of a parasitized snail with Leucochloridium in its eye stalks on a blade of grass. It reads “Disco Zombie Snail Trails.”