Thinking about how games should be inspired by steering their mechanics hard into their world building, instead of a list of media properties you’ve heard of. Oh look, Universal Riche is out. erinking.itch.io/universel-ri...

Universel Riche Ashcan by Aaron King

Basic rules for a card-based RPG in a bastard world.

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If I was to ever do a fantasy heart breaker it’d be “Lord of Light” scale mythopoetic science fantasy world where every enemy was a D&D monster reinterpreted as a ghost and you rolled an entire dice set and interpreted the casting using a unique to you spell book like you were scoring Mahjong hands.

For some bizarre reason I thought @kierongillen.bsky.social was both shorter and much younger than me and in the last year I have found out he is not.

Transmission #185 from NROL-82 (UNCLASSIFIED) 1. Disputed Backrooms of Capitalism

Finished Mad Men.

For no particular reason writing up my leadership principles

A trolley accident has merged two wolves, creating a new unique wolf that insists on its own survival. One wolf sees four lights. One trolley travels faster than light, making it appear there are two trolleys. One wolf speaks only in allegories. The trolley, at Wolf 359. The trolley, out of service.

There can be nothing good in this world and it’ll still be worth fighting for.

I didn’t read this at the time but clearly something was in the water

Dylan Horrocks@dylanhorrocks.bsky.social · 3d ago

Not quite what you're after, but relevant: www.theguardian.com/books/booksb...

I’m moving on in my game design career from “how to make game good?” to “how to make good game get noticed”

if I ever taught film criticism lesson one would be “you being smarter than the movie is not interesting to anyone”

The Astronaut mission jam on itch looks intriguing itch.io/jam/astronau...

ASTRONAUT MISSION JAM

A game jam from 2026-08-07 to 2026-08-31 hosted by Glitched Tabletop. Spun-off from the annual Sci-Fi One-Shot Jam , the Astronaut Mission Jam is all about creating the scientific and technical missio...

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I’ll come out and say it: I haven’t hated a movie as much as Spider-Man: Brand New Day since Cameron’s original Avatar, a movie I despised so much I spoiled the ending in a blogpost. Well good news, there’s nothing to spoil in BND because there are no consequence in modern super hero movies. 1/2

Andrew Doull@andrewdoull.bsky.social · 4d ago

For no particular reason, thinking about the last great super hero movie that wasn’t relentless copaganda justifying panopticon surveillance, where powers were truly terrifying and characters you deeply cared about died as a result, Brett Ratner’s X-Men: The Last Stand.

For no particular reason, thinking about the last great super hero movie that wasn’t relentless copaganda justifying panopticon surveillance, where powers were truly terrifying and characters you deeply cared about died as a result, Brett Ratner’s X-Men: The Last Stand.

Endometriosis takes nine years to diagnose. That’s about to change. NICE has approved two tests: a saliva test reading microRNA markers, and a gut-sensor test returning results in 45 minutes, sparing women the keyhole surgery currently needed. buff.ly/QX3jHk8 #ShareGoodNewsToo

Rapid endometriosis tests to be made available on NHS in England and Wales

Saliva and gut sensor-based tests hailed as ‘gamechanger’ for millions of women who can wait years for diagnosis

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Tfw you realise not only you missed the RFPs for 2026 Roguelike Celebration, you also missed the 1 month extension :(

It’s times like these I’m reminded about just how tiny the TTRPG scene is.

Andrew Doull@andrewdoull.bsky.social · 6d ago

Hmmm wonder if there’s any good sci-fi TTRPG podcasts out there. Ansible Uplink is good but…

Hmmm wonder if there’s any good sci-fi TTRPG podcasts out there. Ansible Uplink is good but…

Harrison Ford, the actor behind loveable scoundrels Han Solo and Indiana Jones, started his career as an on-set carpenter. That makes him a roguelike deckbuilder.

At the point of listening to Dead Letters where I don’t need to hear about the cleverness of the hosts any more and I need to start hearing about the cleverness of the things they are talking about.

I playtested my Space Mecha today, we played a cycle: - Dormitory scene: the six IO woke up and IO-4 was stressing over failing the new training test so IO-3 invited her to sit on her bunk and went over the test with her to help prepare. Which was a success at a cost so IO-3 took 1 stress.

Really feel like there’s a galaxy brain meme for how much are you into games, starting at 1500 hours in online shooter and top 10 MTG player through mod acquired by Valve and creates OCs in the Sims to leaked classified secrets on War Thunder forums and ending at Candy Crush grandma

average Sixty Years in Space enjoyer:

Andrew Doull@andrewdoull.bsky.social · 6d ago

Whereas I knew people who’d now be like “oh you played 7 Part Pact for a week? That’s cute”.

Between this and classic Traveller worked, I think an entire generation of designers lost an understanding of how much these games were actually played

For me, it is usually cheaper to fly to the USA to buy an indie TTRPG hard cover than it is to pay for shipping costs.

Andrew Doull@andrewdoull.bsky.social · 6d ago

I’ve just been on the rollercoaster of “holy shit they have an Australian warehouse” to “holy shit that’s in USD”

Just posted a "Planning for Update 8" post for Sixty Years in Space -- even though I haven't finished update 7c. Have a read. itch.io/t/6723680/pl...