The people
behind the muse.
Our creative cadre with more than 75 years of combined experience has curated a rigorous environment for the development of tabletop games. We aim for the remarkable because everything else is simply clutter.
Deirdre Cross
Co-Founder · Chief Executive Officer
Jessica Aceti
Co-Founder · Chief Creative Officer
Matt Christianson
Director of Product Development
Andrew Perlmutter
Partner · Strategic AdvisorClick a name to see what each of us has been up to elsewhere.
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Let's make
something remarkable.
Tell us about what you're building, who it's for, and what's keeping you up about it. The Office of Tiffany Birdsong reads every note personally and replies within two business days.
Tabletop
creative
ideation & incubation.
The Office of Tiffany Birdsong is a Seattle-based creative studio with more than 75 years of experience in tabletop gaming. Our namesake, Miss Tiffany Birdsong, is a phantom in a velvet blazer — a creative specter and a muse who exists in the margins of the accumulated works of more than 600 rulebooks. While she remains an enigma, her influence is the very foundation of this enterprise.
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We are Tiffany.
An elite team with a phantom muse and sharp creativity.
The Office of Tiffany Birdsong is a laboratory of connection. An experienced collective devoted to tabletop gaming, collaborative partnerships, game publishing, and ideas that haven't quite happened yet.
We work in three directions at once. We build partnerships with founders, brands, and makers we believe in. We publish our own titles under Hall Party Games. And we hire ourselves out as an idea incubator for teams that need a sharper eye, a braver brief, or Tiffany Birdsong as a phantom muse on retainer.
What ties it all together is a fondness for the remarkable and the belief that good work, done intentionally, considered carefully, is the only kind worth our time.
Five guiding tenants.
One Office.
Five commitments we keep — quietly, persistently, on every project we touch.
A Laboratory of Connection.
Every creative project begins with the question: who does this bring together, and what does that meeting unlock? We treat connection as raw material — the actual work, not the by-product.
Finding the perfect hour.
There's a time for every idea, and our idea is to create a gaming experience so remarkable that you forget all of your worries, and let the moment carry you away.
Games that create an emotion.
If it doesn't make a person feel something — delight, calm, whimsy, tension, joy — it isn't finished yet. Feeling is the brief.
Memorable connected gaming experiences.
Moments people carry in their hearts and tell other people about. We design for the after — the dinner-table story, the TikTok, the you-gotta-play-this-game-with-us-next-time!
Creating games of beauty.
Beauty isn't decoration. It's the intentional proof that someone cared. We're old-fashioned about this and we make no apology.
A curious
place to work.
The Office of Tiffany Birdsong is part creative studio, part game-room, part laboratory of unhinged ideas. There's a brass giraffe, a wall of remarkable board games, a collection of records, and a wall of hand-painted cat portraits keeping a respectful eye on the room.
Come in. Take off your coat. We'll curate the games to play.
The right idea,
in the right room,
at the perfect hour.
An operating principle of The Office of Tiffany Birdsong
Three pillars
of The Office.
The Office of Tiffany Birdsong operates in three distinctive — though sometimes interconnecting — pillars. Pick the development pillar that sounds like your interest, and we'll meet you there.
Partnerships in Action.
For founders, brands, and makers we believe in — long-term collaborations where The Office of Tiffany Birdsong becomes part of your team.
- Brand & venture partnerships
- Co-built games, products & marketing campaigns
- Strategic collaborations
- Long-term retainers
Board Game Publishing.
Our in-house products published as Hall Party Games under the umbrella of The Office of Tiffany Birdsong. Fun games, occasionally outrageous, always beautifully made.
- Original board games, party games, & special editions
- Direct to consumer sales & affiliate marketing
- Limited collaborations with favored creators
Creative Incubator.
Your very own phantom muse on retainer — for teams that already have the talent and just need an experienced sharper eye, a braver brief, the better question.
- Game concepting & creative sprints
- Creative direction (by project or retainer)
- The "is this any good?" call
Not sure where you fit with our pillars? Send us a few sentences about what you're working on and we'll write back with an honest read.
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