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Developer of upcoming indie sandbox rpg Starsector. fractalsoftworks.com

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Alexander Mosolov @amosolov.bsky.social · Mar 27

Starsector 0.98a is out! Fight new enemies, acquire new ships and weapons, and much more, featuring new story missions, autosave, a revamped combat simulator and Codex, and other UI improvements!

fractalsoftworks.com/2025/03/27/s...

Please repost!

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dgbaumgart @dgbaumgart.bsky.social · 4d

Here's a fun short interview podcast with my dad about winning a Spacewar tournament in 1972: www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/w...

The irony? throughline? of me working on Starsector now is not lost upon me. And the sheer historical accident of that event happening to be a 'first' is not lost on him.

BBC World Service - Sporting Witness, The first Esports tournament

In 1972, the first ever Esports tournament was held at California's Stanford University

www.bbc.co.uk

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Alexander Mosolov @amosolov.bsky.social · 16d

Same. Just, man.

Alexander Mosolov @amosolov.bsky.social · 19d

It is super useful (and I use it all the time while developing!), but integrating mods into the game is not really a thing, for various reasons.

Alexander Mosolov @amosolov.bsky.social · 19d

Ahh, ok, gotcha.

Alexander Mosolov @amosolov.bsky.social · 19d

Yeah, that makes a ton of sense! And, hah, no surprise about intellij, I got such a strong "this is an IDE" feeling from this :D Super cool!

I'm curious, how is the rendering for all this handled? Come to think of it, I don't know how the original console commands does it, either

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Alexander Mosolov @amosolov.bsky.social · 19d

Fun fact: assuming 1 metal is one ton, I think that number is about 2,000x too *high* :)

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Alexander Mosolov @amosolov.bsky.social · 19d

Pictured: a planet used to be here, until a bug let me "break it for salvage". Backing out of a menu made the game think the planet was a comm relay, and, well. At least I got some scrap out of it!

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Alexander Mosolov @amosolov.bsky.social · 19d

Seriously? That's pretty wild, this looks like some IDE-level context sensitive support etc

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dgbaumgart @dgbaumgart.bsky.social · 19d

I released an update to my icon pack "Food, Spices, & Drinks"! Added 12 icons people requested in the comments over the past year or so.

dgbaumgart.itch.io/icons-food-s...

Added to version 1.1.2: icons of cream, butter with knife, a bunch of beets, cocoa pods, cranberries, butter w/o knife, bananas, cocoa seeds/nibs/whatever those things are, a pumpkin, a jar of jam, cucumbers, and chocolate bars.

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Alexander Mosolov @amosolov.bsky.social · 19d

The console commands mod just got one heck of an update, courtesy of @lukas04.bsky.social. Super impressive stuff!

fractalsoftworks.com/forum/index....

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Alexander Mosolov @amosolov.bsky.social · 21d

Hahah, no, David just has some Bad Opinions about the quality of my monitor!

Alexander Mosolov @amosolov.bsky.social · 24d

Feelin' personally attacked by this

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dgbaumgart @dgbaumgart.bsky.social · 25d

testing new Starsector content at the minimum supported screen resolution

A drawing of a Victorian man peering through a microscope which displays images at 1280x768

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Alexander Mosolov @amosolov.bsky.social · 28d

Super cool 3d rendition of the Wolf!

www.reddit.com/r/starsector...

From the starsector community on Reddit: Who can guess what ship I tried to transfer to 3D ?

Explore this post and more from the starsector community

www.reddit.com

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Alexander Mosolov @amosolov.bsky.social · 28d

Hi - ahh, my apologies, it's always strictly "when it's ready". Or "soon(tm)", if you prefer :)

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Alexander Mosolov @amosolov.bsky.social · Sep 12

Ahh, neat! The "yield" keyword seems pretty handy here, too

Alexander Mosolov @amosolov.bsky.social · Sep 12

Fair, though in all honesty, I'm not sure C# has much room to talk to Java about who got the idea first :)

Alexander Mosolov @amosolov.bsky.social · Sep 12

Yeah more or less :)

Alexander Mosolov @amosolov.bsky.social · Sep 12

Ok ok, being able to cast like this in Java:
if (x instanceof String s)
And then use s as a string is so liberating, wow, how did I not know about this!

(The only reason I found out is I thought "they *must* have made this redundant cast less annoying by now!" and went looking, and, yep.)

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Alexander Mosolov @amosolov.bsky.social · Sep 9

Hi - thank you for the suggestions :) Glad you've been enjoying the game overall!

Alexander Mosolov @amosolov.bsky.social · Sep 8

What an amazing bunch of photos, thank you for sharing these! Wow.

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Alexander Mosolov @amosolov.bsky.social · Sep 8

Thank you, should be fixed. This is/was just the forum, right? Everything else seems to be fine for me

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Alexander Mosolov @amosolov.bsky.social · Sep 7

Seems to be back now! (Though I haven't heard back from the hosting company about the "why" of it yet, hence the "seems")

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Alexander Mosolov @amosolov.bsky.social · Sep 6

(Website looks like it's down, checking into it now)

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Alexander Mosolov @amosolov.bsky.social · Sep 2

Hahah! It's probably the least likely ship to get the LP treatment :)

(I think there was one with 1 Anubis that I saw. It lost.)