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 | pronoun he/him/his/his/himself

Create a culture where people are allowed to own their mistakes and ensure they do
People want to be heard - create plenty of opportunities for them to be heard and honour those opportunities
IT is a creative medium; the most corrosive impact on that medium is doubt
Assign work when it needs to be done and create space for it to get done - “the most powerful way to create an expectation is an empty space”. Ensure everyone knows the shape of that space.
Don’t do work; enable it - not doing something is surprisingly powerful
Be ready to lead - your down time is more important that your uptime

Dark fantasy and sci fi TTRPGs using all the black ink when you print the PDF

First page of 4+ pages of search results just listing Ansible Uplink episodes.

Player wailing and gnashing in regret.

You are an astronaut. Whatever anyone told you as a kid you couldn’t do, you always succeed at. To succeed at any other action, you must take a drink of water. Fill a glass to the top, now. When the glass is empty you die.

Brian trying to make a post go viral that I’d die of embarrassment if the person who it was about ever saw it

I am a genius: Writing sci fi to avoid “write what you know” criticisms

Oh no: reading one trans and/or disabled author

Jean Grey variant by Mukesh Singh

Are we the sea people?

Thinking about how Reddit’s self-promo policies are a fig leaf for a deep-seated hatred of creative expertise and that the people attracted to this particular anti-intellectual safe space are responsible for creating one of the primary corpuses for genAI

Prawn from a piece of art I’ve commissioned

Looking back, I could say that I was trying to fish in two ponds, and one turned out to be much shallower and one much deeper than I was expecting. Having made several abstract art games, I felt like I was onto something interesting - but I didn't keep finding more to make there that I hadn't already covered. Meanwhile the roguelikes kept revealing more and more.

Wow! Post apocalyptic caves…
Always has been

Graph of downloads, that spiked yesterday significantly higher than the average.

# (1) Quinjet
# (1) Loki
# (2) Adam Warlock
# (2) Cable
# (3) Morph
# (3) Crystal
# (4) Leech
# (4) Drax
# (5) Gamora
# (5) Vision
# (6) Leader
# (6) Sasquatch
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Fire department burning down the bush on the others side of my street.

Stop! Stop! He’s already dead.

Me beating Mindless_Puppet by shadow kinging their zombie stack on turn
6.