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Andrew Doull @andrewdoull.bsky.social · 10h

Starting to wonder if the only reason OSR is popular is because it doesn’t require you read any rules.

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Andrew Doull @andrewdoull.bsky.social · 16h

Hacking my brain like Eliot from Mr Robot but so I read content as the synonym for happy

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Andrew Doull @andrewdoull.bsky.social · 16h

Reminder that if you’re a better statistician than Fermi, you’ll realise there’s only a 1 in 6 chance that there’s another technological species in the Milky Way.

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Ben Porter @eigenbom.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

the minimum system requirements for cataclysm:dda is a lego brick

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briar, duke of dykes @weregazelle.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

indie ttrpg design is hard because a lot of us are very beautiful and it's really distracting

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Andrew Doull @andrewdoull.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Ranking of worst to best federations in Sixty Years in Space (Appendix N reference in brackets): 4. United citizens federation (Starship Troopers) 3. Terran federation (Blake's 7) 2. United federation of planets (Star Trek) 1. Galactic federation (Lilo & Stitch)

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Andrew Doull @andrewdoull.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Been obsessed with vinegar recently as a flavouring agent, especially in dishes like vindaloo where other flavours can normally overpower it. But you can even have it with plain white rice, just wrap it in some dried seaweed, put some meat or vegetables in there pretty much whatever you want.

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Andrew Doull @andrewdoull.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Before you criticise D&D, you need to understand what it does well.

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Matthew Allen @mtallen.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Fail Forward has been a core component of everything we have worked on since Mordor. If you cant make failure interesting and something players actively look for you are missing a ton of very rewarding gameplay loops.

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Andrew Doull @andrewdoull.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I’m less concerned about this (everyone gets probabilities wrong) and more concerned about games that think deeply about how often you should be rolling.

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Andrew Doull @andrewdoull.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

This is definitely a thread I wrote after getting up 2/3 of the last 3 days at 4 am (one of which was biologically 1 am due to time zones), and I should probably have deleted as soon as I realised the obvious mistake but now I can’t because too many thoughtful people replied to it.

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Andrew Doull @andrewdoull.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Your game can have a single difficulty level. You can do whatever you want. Not every game has be played by every player - there’s literally enough games out there that they don’t have to play yours. You can make the game start easy and end hard and players can play it without feeling like they have

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Andrew Doull @andrewdoull.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

This PbtA wants you to fail so why would you attempt to do anything? Good stuff happen 17% So so happen 25% Bad stuff happen 58%

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Andrew Doull @andrewdoull.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Working for an arms manufacturer might be a more obviously evil profession, but the gambling industry is doing more harm to everyday people outside war zones.

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Andrew Doull @andrewdoull.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

1. Twin Peaks: The Return 2. Top of the Lake 3. Industry 4. The Wire 5. Banshee 6. Hannibal 7. The Americans 8. Avatar: The Last Airbender (animated) 9. Person of Interest 10. The 100 Honorable Mentions: Barry, Mr Robot, Shoresy, Foundation, For All Mankind/Star City, Battlestar Galactica

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Andrew Doull @andrewdoull.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Thinking how to make This Space Intentionally more about crawling around abandoned spacecraft while being hunted by weaponized janitor robots.

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Andrew Doull @andrewdoull.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

I’m going to do a whole bit about this on an upcoming podcast in a way that’ll probably make a whole lot of people briefly uncomfortable.

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Andrew Doull @andrewdoull.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Cant remember the name of the spacecraft destroyed at the start of Leviathon Wakes.

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Andrew Doull @andrewdoull.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

I haven’t said this clearly enough, but thanks to a suggestion from a player, the latest update to Sixty Years in Space has now pushed it into the “really cool game” zone which I’m actively proud of. Now to get the supplements to the same level. half-apress.itch.io/60-years-in-...

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60 Years in Space by half-a.press

Solo or coop hard sci-fi space sim

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Andrew Doull @andrewdoull.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

David Lynch is the only creator I’ll give a pass to for being pro-cop.

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Andrew Doull @andrewdoull.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

I’ve watched exactly one episode of Lost and this is the first thing that’s made me interested in watching more. (The episode I watched was “Walkabout”, which was fine albeit manipulative and ableist).

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Andrew Doull @andrewdoull.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Adopting Discord as the community platform for indie TTRPGs is the single worst decision made by the industry in its entire history.

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Andrew Doull @andrewdoull.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

My best friend’s wife has this problem all the time.

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Eric Lang @ericlang.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

When publishers and designers say their game has been play tested hundreds of times, they're not wrong but The published version you're playing has likely not been tested more than a handful of times, and zero times is a distinct possibility. It's not a bug, just a feature of complex iteration

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Mike Cook @mtrc.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

New Post: Why I Love AI Next month it'll be twenty years since I went to university, learned to program, and studied AI. I wrote about why I loved it, why I still love it, and why, unfortunately, it no longer exists. www.possibilityspace.org/blog/posts/i...

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Andrew Doull @andrewdoull.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

finding out you’ve been cut from the campaign when your github commit access is revoked meme

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Andrew Doull @andrewdoull.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Do people think this is a genuine instance of a lack of self-awareness and not a reporter doing a bit?

“There’s a tendency among the press to attribute the creation of a game to a single person,” says Warren Spector, creator of Thief and Deus Ex.

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Andrew Doull @andrewdoull.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Masking is a skill you can improve like any other.

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Andrew Doull @andrewdoull.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

I fear I have somehow enabled a self-destructive spiral by getting Rob to talk about his gaming addiction on a podcast.

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Andrew Doull @andrewdoull.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

It’s weird that my fiction writing consists solely of sci-fi short stories that gets beamed into my head completely whole every decade or so

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Andrew Doull @andrewdoull.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Well this ended up neatly finishing as a short story on the return commute; so I guess you can read it now at roguelikedeveloper.blogspot.com/2026/09/cass... - if it wants to become more of a thing, it will.

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they uploaded one of the military’s finest minds and didn’t do any more; why would you need to when that mind can be infinitely copied into ...

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Andrew Doull @andrewdoull.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Ok have invented a new kind of writing for the novel. Let’s see how far it takes me. (By that I mean I literally will be writing it on my commute home everyday. But also that there’s (almost) no sentences; just paragraphs consisting of semi-colon separated statements).

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Andrew Doull @andrewdoull.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Weird feeling to have 868-HACK, Death Stranding 2, Marathon just sitting on the shelf waiting to be played and yet I’m more excited about things I’m creating.

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Joe Wintergreen @joewintergreen.com · 20/09/2026

no game dev skill is more important than making up your fuckin mind

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Andrew Doull @andrewdoull.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Had a great time recording an episode of Roguelike Radio about a game that’s not even a roguelikelike, but I really feel like we’re not getting high concept enough.

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Andrew Doull @andrewdoull.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

@smestorp.bsky.social Trying to DM you on Discord as I can’t DM you here.

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Andrew Doull @andrewdoull.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Not sure what it says about me that Space Nazis went into Sixty Years in Space a few years ago now, but I've only just added Space Communism.

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Andrew Doull @andrewdoull.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

“And we, I think would certainly call out if we saw AI slop anywhere. And I'm gonna call out the original slop, Orientalism.” From All Systems Nominal: Episode 2: Vaults of Vaarn, 17 Sep 2026 podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/e... This material may be protected by copyright.

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Episode 2: Vaults of Vaarn

Podcast Episode · All Systems Nominal · 17 September · 1 sec

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Andrew Doull @andrewdoull.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

“taken you 10 minutes to come up with reflective umbrellas or to steal Frank Herbert's piss suits [...] Yes, I'm aware they're called still suits, which is short for you're still pissing in your suit. (Apologies to anyone who actually enjoys that sort of thing).” podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/e...

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Episode 2: Vaults of Vaarn

Podcast Episode · All Systems Nominal · 17 September · 1 sec

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Andrew Doull @andrewdoull.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Figured out how to combine exomarkets, prosperity, economic level, LOCALCON, post-singularity economies into one tracking value.

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Andrew Doull @andrewdoull.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

This is the only correct pope green orb meme.

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Sean Poppe @seanrunamok.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

This is what rich men could have and instead they're destroying the world.

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Andrew Doull @andrewdoull.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Thinking about for Bios Megafauna 2, we could have ended up with 23 cards of each colour; but instead got 23, 23, 22 and 24. #chromosomes

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Dougal @doogface.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Recently, I have been talking to @andrewdoull.bsky.social on the All Systems Nominal podcast about Vaults of Vaarn by @infrabeige.bsky.social Have a listen! www.allsystemsnominal.net/2026/09/we-d...

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Episode 2: Vaults of Vaarn

We discuss Vaults of Vaarn with Andrew Doull and Dougal Cochrane .

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