Andrew Doull
@andrewdoull.bsky.social
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
A Lot of Zeroes by half-a.press
A solo or coop game of mapping interstellar journeys.
half-apress.itch.io
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...
I’ve written up my plans for update 7 of Sixty Years in Space at itch.io/t/5762544/pl...
Planning for update 7 - 60 Years in Space community
Looking back at my update 6 plans , they ended up much more ambitious than I had originally thought. When I decided to pivot to the major restructure that update 6 ended up involving I was only halfwa
itch.io
January 8, 2026 at 8:58 PM
I’ve written up my plans for update 7 of Sixty Years in Space at itch.io/t/5762544/pl...
Or you could take my approach and include every possible political belief and then lampshade this in the introduction.
A lot of TTRPG creators and publishers separate their political beliefs from their work because they don't want to rock the boat or lose potential customers. There are also a few notable instances where the creator in question is very conservative but still wants progressive dollars. (1/)
January 8, 2026 at 10:44 AM
Or you could take my approach and include every possible political belief and then lampshade this in the introduction.
Got to love it when I accidentally omit a file from a build which results in fixing a more fundamental error. It's the O(1) version of bisect.
January 8, 2026 at 10:42 AM
Got to love it when I accidentally omit a file from a build which results in fixing a more fundamental error. It's the O(1) version of bisect.
Forget space being big. Earth-size planets are so mind numbingly big it’s hard to comprehend.
January 8, 2026 at 9:33 AM
Forget space being big. Earth-size planets are so mind numbingly big it’s hard to comprehend.
Writing this and realising how George Lucas deeply cared about the political and economic systems of Star Wars in a way that grounds it much closer to science fiction than I have previously realised.
The science part of science fiction is about making an experiment by varying the parameters of what the world is. If you don’t care about what the world is (quantum physics, that people are usually kind, etc) then your experiment (fiction) isn’t going to speak to the human condition.
January 8, 2026 at 9:21 AM
Writing this and realising how George Lucas deeply cared about the political and economic systems of Star Wars in a way that grounds it much closer to science fiction than I have previously realised.
I write science fiction because art is better when it has constraints and science is a reasonably well defined set of constraints
January 8, 2026 at 8:55 AM
I write science fiction because art is better when it has constraints and science is a reasonably well defined set of constraints
Reviews still drive sales in the TTRPG space.
...reliant we are on reviews and outreach channels: this was a year *without* a kickstarter launch, meaning a dry year on revenue. I moved back home in 2024 and I live with my mom, so we don't pay rent and split grocery and bill expenditures, meaning this was enough for us to live but of course...
January 8, 2026 at 6:39 AM
Reviews still drive sales in the TTRPG space.
Mountainhead (2025)
EXCLUSIVE: How Trump's oil grab in Venezuela was shaped by Silicon Valley tech billionaire fantasies about installing corporate-dominated "Network States" and "Freedom Cities". The catch? The oil might as well be worthless bylinetimes.com/2026/01/07/i...
Inside the Dystopian Silicon Valley Plot to Annex Venezuela for Oil That America Can’t Afford
Donald Trump's decapitation of the Venezuelan Government opens the door to his Big Tech oligarch supporters' dreams of creating an anti-democratic 'Network State' in the country, reports Nafeez Ahmed
bylinetimes.com
January 7, 2026 at 11:13 PM
Mountainhead (2025)
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I think we’re long past the point now that anyone can justify travelling to the US like it’s a normal functional country. Absolutely baffled by people still going there for holidays or conferences.
January 7, 2026 at 10:22 PM
I think we’re long past the point now that anyone can justify travelling to the US like it’s a normal functional country. Absolutely baffled by people still going there for holidays or conferences.
I’d be outraged too if this was an outrageous event with no precedent. www.statista.com/statistics/5...
People shot to death by U.S. police, by race 2024| Statista
The trend of fatal police shootings in the U.S. seems to only be increasing each year, with Black civilians having the highest rates of being killed by police.
www.statista.com
January 7, 2026 at 10:41 PM
I’d be outraged too if this was an outrageous event with no precedent. www.statista.com/statistics/5...
The (US)Americans I’ve met are overwhelmingly lovely people who act as if their force of personality could overcome the evils of their empire.
January 7, 2026 at 8:53 PM
The (US)Americans I’ve met are overwhelmingly lovely people who act as if their force of personality could overcome the evils of their empire.
28 years m.youtube.com/watch?v=qZow...
January 7, 2026 at 7:41 PM
28 years m.youtube.com/watch?v=qZow...
The responses to this involve people describing alternatives that sound like they had a mild stroke while posting
you: surely the internet cant get that much worse
the internet:
the internet:
Discord has confidentially filed for an IPO, according to Bloomberg.
Details: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
Details: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
January 7, 2026 at 7:19 AM
The responses to this involve people describing alternatives that sound like they had a mild stroke while posting
My two take aways:
1. Don’t produce stuff that goes on advertising supported platforms - give it away for free instead.
2. Sell products that have actual value.
1. Don’t produce stuff that goes on advertising supported platforms - give it away for free instead.
2. Sell products that have actual value.
Echoing this to say that $1 a month to a creator whose work you like is equivalent to easily a thousand ad-supported views on their videos. Even a little bit of support makes a hugely outsized difference - pick your favourites and support where you can.
Philosophy Tube is made by properly paid artists; no AI slop, no sussy sponsorships from mobile games and mattress companies. If you want there to still be a place for proper art on the internet then please support your friendly neighbourhood content creator, whether that’s me or someone else ❤️
January 6, 2026 at 10:43 PM
My two take aways:
1. Don’t produce stuff that goes on advertising supported platforms - give it away for free instead.
2. Sell products that have actual value.
1. Don’t produce stuff that goes on advertising supported platforms - give it away for free instead.
2. Sell products that have actual value.
Who called it Mothership and not LoopOSR?
How many Mothership modules about time loops do you know? I can count 4.
(They're all pretty good.)
(They're all pretty good.)
January 5, 2026 at 8:52 AM
Who called it Mothership and not LoopOSR?
6 Meals in Space, my 1 page version of my 2300 page hard sci TTRPG was collected in Tiny Tome 3! longtailgames.itch.io/tiny-tome-3
Tiny Tome 3 by Long Tail Games
50 single page RPGs
longtailgames.itch.io
January 4, 2026 at 12:59 PM
6 Meals in Space, my 1 page version of my 2300 page hard sci TTRPG was collected in Tiny Tome 3! longtailgames.itch.io/tiny-tome-3
Finished Leech by Hiron Ennes aka what if instead of Alien vs Predator someone wrote Thing vs Thing?
January 4, 2026 at 7:47 AM
Finished Leech by Hiron Ennes aka what if instead of Alien vs Predator someone wrote Thing vs Thing?
For no particular reason I'm thinking about how my near future TTRPG splits from our current reality in 2015 and is deliberately vague about how the next 25 years plays out.
If you're not sure whether or not you'll like Sixty Years in Space, my 2300 page hard sci fi TTRPG, you can download the first 74 pages of the Crewed Rules from half-apress.itch.io/60-years-in-... along with the chapter on space-based infrastructure and terraforming, which runs to another 26 pages.
60 Years in Space by half-a.press
Procgen hard sci-fi space sim RPG
half-apress.itch.io
January 4, 2026 at 4:27 AM
For no particular reason I'm thinking about how my near future TTRPG splits from our current reality in 2015 and is deliberately vague about how the next 25 years plays out.
If you're not sure whether or not you'll like Sixty Years in Space, my 2300 page hard sci fi TTRPG, you can download the first 74 pages of the Crewed Rules from half-apress.itch.io/60-years-in-... along with the chapter on space-based infrastructure and terraforming, which runs to another 26 pages.
60 Years in Space by half-a.press
Procgen hard sci-fi space sim RPG
half-apress.itch.io
January 4, 2026 at 4:25 AM
If you're not sure whether or not you'll like Sixty Years in Space, my 2300 page hard sci fi TTRPG, you can download the first 74 pages of the Crewed Rules from half-apress.itch.io/60-years-in-... along with the chapter on space-based infrastructure and terraforming, which runs to another 26 pages.
Thinking again about the next project after Sixty Years in Space and can’t come up with anything better than writing a book of poetry.
Probably makes more financial sense than anything in the games industry.
Probably makes more financial sense than anything in the games industry.
January 3, 2026 at 10:50 PM
Thinking again about the next project after Sixty Years in Space and can’t come up with anything better than writing a book of poetry.
Probably makes more financial sense than anything in the games industry.
Probably makes more financial sense than anything in the games industry.
Second Dinner has decided to make running a well-coordinated #marvelsnap guild not worth the time invested. Nearly a month of random borders as the team reward.
January 3, 2026 at 3:40 AM
Second Dinner has decided to make running a well-coordinated #marvelsnap guild not worth the time invested. Nearly a month of random borders as the team reward.
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lately I have been living my life as if it's around 400 AD: the hegemonic empire that dominated my possibility space for most of my life is in an unarrestable and active decline, and I'm not gonna bother factoring its potential recovery and ability to find and hurt me at a distance into my anxieties
January 2, 2026 at 7:58 AM
lately I have been living my life as if it's around 400 AD: the hegemonic empire that dominated my possibility space for most of my life is in an unarrestable and active decline, and I'm not gonna bother factoring its potential recovery and ability to find and hurt me at a distance into my anxieties
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you get in bed with the profit motive and eventually the profit motive is all that's left and it's wearing the shape, but not the content, of your fine moral arguments like a severed face mask
January 2, 2026 at 3:35 AM
you get in bed with the profit motive and eventually the profit motive is all that's left and it's wearing the shape, but not the content, of your fine moral arguments like a severed face mask
Going to make a game called “accessible chess” where each piece’s moveset randomly changes after each move is played.
we spent so much time and work on accessibility though, there's even non-permadeath modes, modes where combat is rare, controller support, haha.
honestly true roguelikes are some of the most physically accessible games, being fully turn based, and even sometimes screen reader supported!
honestly true roguelikes are some of the most physically accessible games, being fully turn based, and even sometimes screen reader supported!
January 2, 2026 at 4:30 AM
Going to make a game called “accessible chess” where each piece’s moveset randomly changes after each move is played.
going to make a game about progressively going blind and call it cataracts
going to make a game entirely based around the logistics of river transportation and call it cataracts
January 2, 2026 at 2:36 AM
going to make a game about progressively going blind and call it cataracts