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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 · 11h

A cafe

Andrew Doull @andrewdoull.bsky.social · 11h

You can buy my 2500+ page TTRPG at half-apress.itch.io/60-years-in-...

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Andrew Doull @andrewdoull.bsky.social · 19h

In 6 years it will have been further from the first moon landing to now, then it would have been from HG Wells’ novel about landing on the moon until we got there.

We now can only get people 0.1% as far as we did in 1969.

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Dandyman @throneofsalt.bsky.social · 19h

It's time for part 4 of my play report series of @andrewdoull.bsky.social's 60 Years in Space: this time round we get to see the sausage-making procedure and make it successfully to Pholus! Now it's just the wrapup post left.

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

60 Years, the Return: Part 4

Let's get right into it. Part 1: Crew & Mission Generation Part 2: Rocket Science Part 3: Mission Year 1 Service Risk Triggers Cosmic Ra...

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Andrew Doull @andrewdoull.bsky.social · 21h

Thinking about how offers the $5 that indie game developers have to pass around to each other ends up in Adobe’s pocket

Andrew Doull @andrewdoull.bsky.social · 1d

Still haven’t taken any earnings on Sixty Years in Space, but I’m paying my 3rd artist so I guess that’s something

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Andrew Doull @andrewdoull.bsky.social · 21h

Wrong hemisphere and where I live falls on the British English side of this

Andrew Doull @andrewdoull.bsky.social · 1d

I realise there is some ambiguity about whether I mean the movie or the TV series

Andrew Doull @andrewdoull.bsky.social · 1d

Finished The Fall.

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Andrew Doull @andrewdoull.bsky.social · 1d

Finished The Fall.

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manatee123.bsky.social @manatee123.bsky.social · 1d

His journey from Hot Biscuit to Big Lebowski played out in three seasons of Foundation on AppleTv.

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Andrew Doull @andrewdoull.bsky.social · 1d

If your set doesn’t consist of something that looks like it’ll fall over if someone sneezes, it’s not sci fi

Colin Smith @colinsmith.bsky.social · 2d

1975: Harlan Ellison visits Michael Moorcock in London. The Englishman sits Ellison in front of the TV when Dr Who comes on & insists Ellison “be quiet & just watch”. By the late 1970s,Ellison is such a fan of Dr Who that he’s taunting US scifi fans with declarations of its superiority over US fare.

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Andrew Doull @andrewdoull.bsky.social · 1d

Honestly artists have it so easy /s

Andrew Doull @andrewdoull.bsky.social · 1d

Still haven’t taken any earnings on Sixty Years in Space, but I’m paying my 3rd artist so I guess that’s something

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Andrew Doull @andrewdoull.bsky.social · 1d

“ADHD didn’t exist before 19…”

GRANDMA: “Sleep before midnight counts as double.”

Andrew Doull @andrewdoull.bsky.social · 2d

It was used as a social media tool by the user communities of a number of countries - IIRC Brazil being the biggest. You could like, save, share and comment in it.

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Julian "Jaz" Rignall @jazrignall.bsky.social · 2d

40 years ago, Paradroid was on ZZAP!'s cover. We rated this amazing game 97%. Other top reviews: Little Computer People Discovery Kit (97%), Epyx' epic multisports sim Winter Games (94%), Wizard's Lair (89%), Hacker (87%), and Infocom's stellar Starcross text adventure (94%).

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Andrew Doull @andrewdoull.bsky.social · 2d

In New Zealand all the entries would be fake

Gareth Brooks @soulphoenix316.bsky.social · 2d

It's so overtly Aussie that there's an in-game glossary so you can translate what the fuck they're saying

Andrew Doull @andrewdoull.bsky.social · 2d

Hah I beat it with my own genuine home grown post. Looks like there’s some magic “threshold for popularity” that kicks in

Andrew Doull @andrewdoull.bsky.social · 3d

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

Andrew Doull @andrewdoull.bsky.social · 2d

It’ll be south Florida soon enough

Andrew Doull @andrewdoull.bsky.social · 2d

This is Google Reader erasure

Craig aka Tezrak ➡️ GameHole Con @tezrak.bsky.social · 6d

Pour one out for G+, the only social media ever worth a damn

Conrad Hackett @conradhackett.bsky.social · 7d

Has anything great happened in your life because of social media?

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Andrew Doull @andrewdoull.bsky.social · 2d

That’s Barbarian

Andrew Doull @andrewdoull.bsky.social · 2d

T-storms cause the genders

Rob Mayeda NBC Bay Area @robmayeda.bsky.social · 2d

The first significant storm of the season is upon us. Given the colder air support some hail producing storms (in addition to strong wind/high rain rates) will be likely, and we may see some special marine warnings at times as well. 10/12/2025 @nbcbayarea.com

Andrew Doull @andrewdoull.bsky.social · 3d

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 · 3d

Next update of Sixty Years in Space incoming.

sincerely, rob dubbin @robdubbin.bsky.social · 3d

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 · 3d

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

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