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Really pushing the boundaries of what Sixty Years in Space can be.

Scene prompts for the next 100, 1000, 10000 etc years. Watch "Sleeping in Light" and you'll understand what I'm doing here.

Don’t sleep on Dark Matter. S2 has decided it’s doing to tell the stories it wants to tell m, in ways that matter.

I have started to collect game ideas for when I retire and you are all fucked at that point.

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Figured out something much less drastic.

It’d be a roll up of service risks plus downtime from TSI plus complications of various kinds.

But your feedback tells me I’m still not doing enough stuff to mess with the Sixty Years in Space crew.

Yes I’m still working on that part of the game that’s not unique enough to be worth investing the time into yet to learn another set of overly complex rules.

I was talking about the Crewed Rules. But point taken.

Andrew Doull @andrewdoull.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

I’m thinking of doing something insane which is taking character generation out of the Sixty Years in Space equivalent of the Player’s Handbook. The main reason is that the recruitment program for astronauts is a sieve that only similar shaped pieces get through.

Looks like a walkable neighbourhood as well

Annoyingly, the correct answer for any rules that I'm having difficulty getting control of in Sixty Years in Space is "put it in the core rule book". The second most annoying answer is "use the rules from the board game".

You're more correct than you thought

Figured out how to make Crewed Rules standalone by allowing you to get around the solar system without using rockets. It’s a forehead slapping stupidly obvious solution which I should have implemented years ago instead of trying to abstract it away. Anyway Crewed Rules RE:Cycled coming soon.

The problem with coming up with a great idea like this before going for a run is I now have the plot, character cast, game mechanics, puzzles, protagonist tragic back story, secret ending and justification for choosing the visual novel art style and form.

Oh god the second half of the game is where your customers sacrifice themselves to fight off the Terran Federation invasion to help you escape

The running bit is every customer is happy if you give them a good combat build

I know you wanted the PPC grandma but we had these incendiary LRMs lying around out back so I gave you a good price

Megan Fox @glassbottommeg.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

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This is (partially) a joke, but more seriously, I have actually found my game designs get better the more I reject conventional wisdom, and explicitly design around my personal strengths I just struggle to give that advice to novices because, weeeeell, your instincts aren't that good yet probably 😭

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doctober @docseuss.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

a publisher's job is to: 1) fund the game 2) provide the production staff necessary to ensuring the game gets made 3) source materials the dev team might need, such as music licensing 4) market the game

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@unormal.bsky.social out there trying to animate polygons while a visual novel is the ultimate mech game form.

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Is there a game where the build is the entire thing? Like you’re just hanging around the mech shop blinging up some old hardware for a variety of interesting customers?

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My TTRPG was one of the earliest to license a board game but you won’t like it although you probably know someone who would

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I’m a triple threat (have designed and published a video game, board game and TTRPG). I only recommend it if you like losing your audience every time you change medium.

Sam Weller @samwellerauthor.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

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This is the most remarkable story Ray Bradbury ever shared with me. He told it to me late one night, sitting in his den of antiquities and mementos. Take five minutes to read this. It’s pure magic. #Writing #Living #Creativity #RayBradbury #BookSky

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Andrew Doull @andrewdoull.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Learned about this from a Marvel snap podcast

Andrew Doull @andrewdoull.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

More seriously, TTRPG designers should be stealing from board games, including entire rule sets

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Andrew Doull @andrewdoull.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Taps roof of my TTRPG: I can fit so many unread rules in this thing.

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Evangeline Sorrel @forestoath.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

From PBTA going from the cool new kid on the block to the old indie tradition in all these years one fact remains the same: nobody reads their damn rules properly.

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

Ion Games isn’t owned by Phil. They contract him in for work, but it’s not accurate to say it’s his company.

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

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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.

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

Fermi paradox can be explained because Fermi wasn’t good at statistics

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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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There’s an RPG in the thread I suggested that basically does this and it seems fine.

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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)

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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That’s not what I said at all

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

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