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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 · 2h

“ADHD didn’t exist before 19…”

GRANDMA: “Sleep before midnight counts as double.”

Andrew Doull @andrewdoull.bsky.social · 8h

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 · 10h

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 · 10h

In New Zealand all the entries would be fake

Gareth Brooks @soulphoenix316.bsky.social · 21h

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 · 10h

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 · 1d

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 · 12h

It’ll be south Florida soon enough

Andrew Doull @andrewdoull.bsky.social · 13h

This is Google Reader erasure

Craig aka Tezrak ➡️ GameHole Con @tezrak.bsky.social · 4d

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

Conrad Hackett @conradhackett.bsky.social · 5d

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

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Andrew Doull @andrewdoull.bsky.social · 15h

That’s Barbarian

Andrew Doull @andrewdoull.bsky.social · 15h

T-storms cause the genders

Rob Mayeda NBC Bay Area @robmayeda.bsky.social · 16h

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 · 1d

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 · 1d

Next update of Sixty Years in Space incoming.

sincerely, rob dubbin @robdubbin.bsky.social · 1d

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 · 1d

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 · 1d

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

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Andrew Doull @andrewdoull.bsky.social · 1d

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 · 1d

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

Andrew Doull @andrewdoull.bsky.social · 1d

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

Andrew Doull @andrewdoull.bsky.social · 1d

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 · 2d

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 · 2d

And fat is off the charts.

Andrew Doull @andrewdoull.bsky.social · 2d

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

Andrew Doull @andrewdoull.bsky.social · 2d

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TransHab

TransHab - Wikipedia

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Andrew Doull @andrewdoull.bsky.social · 2d

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 · 3d

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