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Andrew Doull

@andrewdoull.bsky.social

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16th level information technologist, 12th level game designer | 60y in space https://half-apress.itch.io/60-years-in-space | pronoun he/him/his/his/himself

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Andrew Doull @andrewdoull.bsky.social · Jul 28

I've release a new solo/coop TTRPG about mapping a journey through the Milky Way with your immortal and unusual crew. It's inspired by the High Frontier Interstellar board game I helped develop but goes much, much further: to the galactic core and beyond! half-apress.itch.io/a-lot-of-zer...

A Lot of Zeroes by half-a.press

A solo or coop game of mapping interstellar journeys.

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Andrew Doull @andrewdoull.bsky.social · 8h

Spend a lot of time in a locker there?

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🖤🐦‍⬛⚫𝑭𝒆𝒅𝒆⚫🐦‍⬛🖤 @fsohns.bsky.social · Aug 17

IT WILL RAIN FOR A MILLION YEARS

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A LATE TRIASSIC GAME
OF WORLDS UPENDED

Two hundred and thirty two million years ago, a global deluge sparked a near unprecedented
life-bloom across Earth.
In the nascent forests and swamps of Ischigualasto, in South America, your warm blood stirs. As you take in burgeoning scents, as you learn its songs, and claw away at this newfound paradise,
you make your kin. You face your trials.
You find your meaning.
You are a thief at the grand opening of a new age.

YOU ARE EORAPTOR LUNENSIS

So go ahead. Steal the show.

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Andrew Doull @andrewdoull.bsky.social · 13h

Next update of Sixty Years in Space incoming.

sincerely, rob dubbin @robdubbin.bsky.social · 19h

putting this poster up all around my game-design workplace

A workplace safety-style sign that says THINK with a glyph of a hand being shocked. Text: "Is it possible for this system to generate the events surrounding and during the Fleetwood Mac Rumors tour?"

Andrew Doull @andrewdoull.bsky.social · 13h

Typical that my most popular post on here is just steering likes to the @unormal.bsky.social post I quoted.

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Andrew Doull @andrewdoull.bsky.social · 19h

This is known as the Mel Brooks method www.slashfilm.com/1109726/mel-...

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Andrew Doull @andrewdoull.bsky.social · 22h

Reminder that one of the best ways to avoid complying with something is to say you’re going to comply and then never actually do the thing you’re being asked to do.

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Andrew Doull @andrewdoull.bsky.social · 23h

Marvel Snap is a much better data point than MtG for this

Andrew Doull @andrewdoull.bsky.social · 23h

I would argue the failure to enforce them happened a long time before people started flaunting them

Andrew Doull @andrewdoull.bsky.social · 23h

Thinking about how much of the Sixty Years in Space rules were originally written with the assumption that players would have played the board game, and then the game never got traction with people who played the board game.

Andrew Doull @andrewdoull.bsky.social · 1d

Looks like I need to better distinguish between “bring your own components” like the Project Orion which remain competitive options in ET produced spacecraft and stuff which can actually be ET produced at the listed spectral class site.

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Dandyman @throneofsalt.bsky.social · 1d

Part 3 of my mission report for @andrewdoull.bsky.social's 60 Years in Space is up: at long last, I complete the first year of the Hayabusa's 4 year mission!

throneofsalt.blogspot.com/2025/10/60-y...

60 Years, the Return: Part 3

I’ve kept the steps that aren’t applicable for this mission anyway as a model / memory aid. Part 1: Crew & Mission Generation Part 2: Rocket...

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Andrew Doull @andrewdoull.bsky.social · 1d

And fat is off the charts.

Andrew Doull @andrewdoull.bsky.social · 1d

Unless I'm mathing wrong, glycogen has a way higher energy density than lithium ion batteries.

Andrew Doull @andrewdoull.bsky.social · 1d

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TransHab

TransHab - Wikipedia

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Andrew Doull @andrewdoull.bsky.social · 1d

It’s based on a modified version of the Transhab design, with 4 floors each consisting of 13 hexes you can place crew on to enable activities, recover from stress and interact with each other. Each floor also tracks the mission control’s posture on various things (crew relationships, mission, etc).

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Andrew Doull @andrewdoull.bsky.social · 2d

This is for interplanetary travel. I’ve developed an interstellar board game previously which did something slightly different.

Andrew Doull @andrewdoull.bsky.social · 2d

I need to figure out how to get another update out at some point along this journey.

Andrew Doull @andrewdoull.bsky.social · 2d

Then a big pass looking for other unnecessary systems to combine/sand down or remove; and existing systems to explain better. The thorniest of these is damage over time; but I think BSU/colours might be cut-able.

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Andrew Doull @andrewdoull.bsky.social · 2d

I’ve still got to finish character generation, exploration, market place and upgraded biomes for the sub game.

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Andrew Doull @andrewdoull.bsky.social · 2d

I’ve finalized the shipboard life system for Sixty Years in Space that a player requested that allows you to play a worker placement game using your crew to do stuff while you spend years travelling to a site. It solves and combines about 5 older systems that I can comfortably get rid of.

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Andrew Doull @andrewdoull.bsky.social · 2d

Now this has stalled out, it’s the perfect time to promote my Kojima inspired hard sci fi space exploration game based in part on a mech board game. half-apress.itch.io/60-years-in-...

60 Years in Space by half-a.press

Procgen hard sci-fi space sim RPG

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Andrew Doull @andrewdoull.bsky.social · 2d

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Henrietta Lacks - Wikipedia

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Andrew Doull @andrewdoull.bsky.social · 2d

Regular reminder that many things that you would think of as a dystopian science fiction future -- or which you are only now discovering are occurring in the dystopian present --, up to, and including, being converted into a self-replicating goo, have already been done to people of colour.

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David Beard @dabeard.bsky.social · 2d

Hitler campaigned for a Nobel Peace Prize, too. The committee gave it to this anti-Nazi campaigner and Hitler concentration camp prisoner instead: www.nobelprize.org/prizes/peace...

Nobel Peace Prize 1935

The Nobel Peace Prize 1935 was awarded to Carl von Ossietzky "for his burning love for freedom of thought and expression and his valuable contribution to the cause of peace"

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Andrew Doull @andrewdoull.bsky.social · 2d

* both during the day