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Andrew Gillis
@andrewgillis.bsky.social
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Human bicycle hybrid - Game designer Author of Girl by Moonlight (they/them)
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Andrew Gillis @andrewgillis.bsky.social · Nov 17
I'm Andrew, a TTRPG game designer from the Pacific Northwest.

I published Girl by Moonlight last year with @evilhat.bsky.social

I've got a couple new projects underway that I'm excited to share soon.

Appreciate folks following me here (many of whom I recognize from twitter) over the past week.
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Andrew Gillis @andrewgillis.bsky.social · 10h
Very proud of this one, would love for more people to check it out!
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Andrew Gillis @andrewgillis.bsky.social · 17h
Hi folks, my game We Contain Solitudes is out now!

sevencrowsgames.itch.io/we-contain-s...
We Contain Solitudes by Seven Crows Games
A 2 player TTRPG about troubled souls trapped in a time loop that plays out in prose and soliloquies.
sevencrowsgames.itch.io
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Helvetica Blanc @helveticablanc.bsky.social · 16h
I made the cover for this! Go check it out! 👀
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Andrew Gillis @andrewgillis.bsky.social · 17h
The game is pay what you want on itch, and I would love for you to grab it and try it out.

It's a more experimental RPG, that is doing some new and interesting things, it'll be a new and strange experience you can share with a friend.
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Andrew Gillis @andrewgillis.bsky.social · 17h
The cover is by @helveticablanc.bsky.social and it was so cool to get to work with them on the cover for my little game.
An illustration of faces in flat black, white, and red. The faces are tesselated together, facing left and right. One face has a single tear rolling down its cheek, and forming a drop on its chin. This is the cover page for the game We Contain Solitudes, a duet game by Andrew Gillis.
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Andrew Gillis @andrewgillis.bsky.social · 17h
It's a 2 player ttrpg about troubled souls trapped in a time loop, that plays out in prose and soliloquies.
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Andrew Gillis @andrewgillis.bsky.social · 17h
Hi folks, my game We Contain Solitudes is out now!

sevencrowsgames.itch.io/we-contain-s...
We Contain Solitudes by Seven Crows Games
A 2 player TTRPG about troubled souls trapped in a time loop that plays out in prose and soliloquies.
sevencrowsgames.itch.io
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Andrew Gillis @andrewgillis.bsky.social · 1d
Why watch 15+ innings when I can just watch this 1 minute clip?
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Andrew Gillis @andrewgillis.bsky.social · 3d
I haven't played a ton of extraction games, but I did really enjoy Hole for its wild aesthetics and
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Andrew Gillis @andrewgillis.bsky.social · 3d
Anyways, the process has been working well so far. I got some great insights and feedback from bringing the game to playtest zero (which is a very cool and good discord)
I got to use that session as a first swing at the material and situation that I was planning for the other playeltest, which is
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LOG∀N 🔜 PaxU @holloworange.bsky.social · 5d
Excuse me as I bury myself into a hole while I process all the absolute joy working on @bloomandblight.bsky.social has been.

If you are looking for a story about a bunch of queer heroes fighting for a brighter tomorrow against an evil AI, we have the most amazing story for you.
archivaldustbunny.bsky.social Anna Maeve @archivaldustbunny.bsky.social · 5d
Unsurprisingly, @holloworange.bsky.social became our touchstone for the magical girl themes and tropes we love so much.

Wolfsbane's brooding story arc from "I want to punch everything" to "I want to punch everything, but I've also grown as a character" was expertly done and a delight to watch.
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Andrew Gillis @andrewgillis.bsky.social · 6d
It was a fun little bit of TTRPG archaeology, picking up an unfinished, somewhat fragmentary game, and playing it as best we could. Lots of homebrewing and interpreting and playstorming.
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Andrew Gillis @andrewgillis.bsky.social · 6d
Not nearly as rigorous (with no data vis or anything) I would say my year was a 3 way split of Apocalypse Keys, my own game We Contain Solitudes (all playtests), and Apocalypse World: Dark Ages
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Andrew Gillis @andrewgillis.bsky.social · 6d
"It's good to eat me, I'm a citizen!"
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Rascal News @rascal.news · 12d
@newmadras.bsky.social goes down the folk horror rabbit hole, comes out with a bunch of movie references and his Game of the Year.
I was sacrificed for the land and all I got was this essay
On Luke Jordan’s Harvest, a masterpiece of folk horror
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Thomas M, Full-time Rascal @newmadras.bsky.social · 12d
Sometimes even the land deserves a little treat... OF BLOOD!

Been meaning to write about this game for ages and finally did. Games are very good sometimes! Here's one!
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Alex Roberts @helloalexroberts.bsky.social · 13d
Absolutely loved this game. Weird-as-you-want worldbuilding, characters you instantly care about, and all building towards an almost (but not quite!) guaranteed tragic ending. Get it.
ehronlime.bsky.social Aaron Lim 林家丰 @ehronlime.bsky.social · Aug 14
Ithaca in the Cards: Second Expedition is out now on digital release! You can get the PDF at ehronlime.itch.io/ithaca-in-th... for $15. This GM-less blackjack driven storygame has you playing as doomed travelers on a perilous journey home, pitting your hand and hearts against Fate.
Ithaca in the Cards: Second Expedition by ehronlime
A blackjack-driven storygame about doomed travelers on a perilous journey home.
ehronlime.itch.io
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Andrew Gillis @andrewgillis.bsky.social · 14d
Sure I'd love to hear about your experience.
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Andrew Gillis @andrewgillis.bsky.social · 14d
Don't worry, I checked my life's credits and you're a 'Special appearance by' that shows up after all the other supporting actors.
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Andrew Gillis @andrewgillis.bsky.social · 18d
Took a lot of inspo from Darkest Dungeon for my game Girl by Moonlight.
The tension of a character hitting their stress limit and usually breaking, but sometimes triggering their virtue was something I tried to replicate with my Eclipse rules.
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Andrew Gillis @andrewgillis.bsky.social · 18d
Doing game design...
An image containing the following text: Art Movements Folk Materialism - low status, crafts, emphasis on process Mother Panacea Tapestries by Janka Hollholm Pensees Colonielles, a ceramic decollage triptych by Marielle Detonne Scientific Mysticism - clean, symbolic, non-representational The Augury of Celestial Alignments by Dietrich Mills Aria III by Lubo Chereneskye Academic Formalism - high status, regulated, inspiring The Palace of Administration for the City of Eutopea and Its Environs The Pantheon in Mourning, by Rosetta Saint-Marche Rejuvanism - recycled, unconventional, nostalgic The Child Remade, assemblage in refuse and chrysanthemum blossoms by Biancella Marionetti Every Cycle is Beginning, installation in silk cuttings, oil, and clay by Neetu Grewal Brutal Frugalism - direct, massive, iconoclastic The Time Is Now, granite and steel by James and Aletta Wainthrop Central Streetcar Service Roundhouse by Helmet, Warrick, and Figarelo Base Realism - grotesque, confronting, emphasis on class The Forest, a play by Yuri Abelev Harpies of Saint Claimant, by Julie-Marta Svensen Post-momentism - abstract, transgressive, emphasis on colour Yellow 3 by 'toulon' What the Sea Brings a novel by Isabel Soeira Baroque Abundists - luxury, scale, gallery shows The Pantheon In Bronze collected works of Arturo MacMillan as presented in the Meyer Gallery Tenebria, a triumphalist opera by Hans Noymann Alchemical Cynicism - emergent, parodic, experiential The Master of Industry, by Frederico Aguilar and Ernesta Ruiz Letters, a collection of forged currency and fabricated correspondences, by Linda Wong Street invocation - illegal, loud, emphasis on spectacle Dupont Mural Defacement by 2grate (photographed by Henri Lenton) Spontaneous Gathering in Dance and Folk Music, Summer '29 by Grand Sunset Art Collective
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Andrew Gillis @andrewgillis.bsky.social · 18d
If the game weren't so self serious, I might actually do so (also, the legal implications of using a still from a TV show as the title of my game are beyond my ability to comprehend).
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Andrew Gillis @andrewgillis.bsky.social · 18d
Working title for my new game is this image.
TV still of a man in a hotdog with the subtitle: "We're all trying to find the guy who did this"
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Andrew Gillis @andrewgillis.bsky.social · 24d
might bring some portion of it to playtest zero this week...
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Andrew Gillis @andrewgillis.bsky.social · 24d
more video games should end with musical numbers
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