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Daniel Fedor
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Developer of Ostranauts and NEO Scavenger. Founder of Blue Bottle Games studio.
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Daniel Fedor @dcfedor.bsky.social · Nov 14
Hey Folks!

If you're into the following, I wanna see it! And I'll probably post the same:

Gamedev
Cassette futurism
Architecture
Synth music
RPG manuals
Visual design
Cars and interiors
Musical instruments
Procedural generation
Game design
Immersive photos
Scavenging
Smart and dumb jokes
dcfedor.bsky.social
We're experimenting with letting the user manual-fire weapons outside of auto-target range, for skill shots. #gamedev
Ostranauts NAV UI showing several modules with buttons, switches, and readouts. Notably, there is a WEAPONS CONTROL module showing a white silhouette of our ship with a variety of railgun, PDC, and missle ammo counts in green boxes. There is also a SENSORS module showing a white silhouette of our target, rotated to match their orientation in space. It has several readouts on it for the weapons, crew, thrusters, and sensors they have, and how well our sensors read them. The main part of the screen shows the MAP module: a black field bisected by glowing blue lines. Our ship is centered, with firing arcs pointing both directly at, and away from a target ship bracketed in red. A red line connects our ship to theirs, as well as a red projectile icon beyond them. This is the result of a twin railgun shot the player fired from 500 km away, one of which hit its mark, leaving red marks on the target's silhouette in SENSORS module.
January 22, 2026 at 7:29 PM
dcfedor.bsky.social
READ THE ROOM
Ostranauts NAV map screen: a black field with glowing lines plotted on it. It is framed in solid blue line, with dotted blue divisions every quarter. At the top of the screen is printed "ZOOM RANGE: 156.91 km" The player's ship is a blue triangle tucked into the top right corner of the map, labeled with the registration ID M-YYW. It has a motion trail behind it toward the middle of the screen, and gray firing arcs point upward. At least a dozen other white triangles dot the middle of the screen, each with a reg ID below them, and red angle brackets around each indicating they are targeting the player. A jungle of red projectiles and their motion trails all reach toward the player in a threatening echelon from those ships.
January 21, 2026 at 5:48 PM
Reposted by Daniel Fedor
quittertalk.bsky.social
There is nothing in my life that has me more excited than the upcoming release of the Fire in the Hold update for Ostranauts. 🚀🫠
January 16, 2026 at 6:45 PM
Reposted by Daniel Fedor
joshuafoust.com
The “Jupiter Greedy” discourse is quite literally sending me into outer space
January 17, 2026 at 4:16 PM
dcfedor.bsky.social
Snuck onto a ship to crash the party #gamedev
Two-frame screenshot of Ostranauts door breaching via mining charge. On the left, a silver canister with caution stripes and blinking red LED sits just outside a closed airlock, the other side of which is hosting what looks like a party for crew in orange EVA suits. One, a Raphael Travis, is approaching the door, and a tooltip over them says "Planned: Drink." Another is sitting with their back to the door, and there's a progress bar beneath them saying "Can't relax." The right panel shows the charge exploding in balls of bright orange gas. Floor tiles around it have ruptured, the blackness of space visible through the gaps, and scrap metal and debris scattered around. Raphael's EVA has been blown clean off his body, and he lies limp in the now-damaged door with only a helmet and skivvies on. His pocket knife scattered northeast, and a combat knife lies on the floor at his feat. (I guess Raph likes his knives!) The sitting EVA person is now standing up, and some more crew are now visible in that party room, further away from the door.
January 15, 2026 at 10:10 PM
dcfedor.bsky.social
I think these gray lines are a bug (duplicated orbit lines), but they kinda look nice! #gamedev
Black screen with glowing lines rendered on it. A NAV screen from Ostranauts. The screen is framed in a blue line, with dotted lines dissecting it into octants. My ship (Silent Company), a tiny blue triangle with gray firing arcs emanating from it, sits in dead-center. An enemy ship (Kinetic Paramour), in red, sits in the upper right quadrant. About 2 o'clock. The enemy has a tan circle drawn around it, encompassing my own ship. This is its estimated range to detect me, based on their sensors and my active equipment. Slashing across the screen at a diagonal is a teal-colored line. And a series of faint, gray lines run almost parallel to it in diminishing spacing, making it look almost like one of those "high tech future" commercials from the 80s.
January 14, 2026 at 10:24 PM
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truthaddictvt.bsky.social
Bandcamp is announcing that they're prohibiting music created wholly or with subtantial use of AI
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January 13, 2026 at 7:06 PM
dcfedor.bsky.social
I think we found David S. Pumpkin's house.
January 12, 2026 at 6:55 AM
dcfedor.bsky.social
The bigger they come, the harder they fall. #gamedev
Sensor panel in Ostranauts. A dull blue panel frames a black screen showing a ship silhouette rotated to 11 o'clock. It is a white outline of several joined rectangles, filled with a gray color. Blood red swathes are carved out of the middle, as if something gouged clear through it from various angles. Along the sides of the display are readouts about the sensors and capabilities of the target ship, printed in pixelated white font. Along the bottom are tabs for LOCK, VIZ, HOSTILE, and SENSORS, with a hardware button just below each, MFD-style.
January 10, 2026 at 6:13 PM
Reposted by Daniel Fedor
mikeachim.bsky.social
What’s the damn-fool thing you’re attempting this year that definitely, definitely won’t work except *what if it did because that would change EVERYTHING*?

Nail it up here for all to see, & that’d be a step towards making it real.

(Also? Someone else reading it might be able to help.)
January 8, 2026 at 10:07 PM
Reposted by Daniel Fedor
marvmcmanus.bsky.social
Ostranauts is my go-to game to live among the stars. Hard sci-fi. Living among the stars means to steal an actual bed - and parts to weld something to your ship that resembles crew quarters - from some wreckage in a space boneyard around 1036 Ganymed in the black between Earth and Mars.
dcfedor.bsky.social Daniel Fedor @dcfedor.bsky.social · 14d
Happy new year, everyone!

We've posted a 2025 year in review, for those who are interested. Plus a few sneak peeks on upcoming content.

store.steampowered.com/news/app/102...

#gamedev
Ostranauts - 2025 Year in Review - Steam News
A look back at what we did in 2025, and what's next in 2026.
store.steampowered.com
January 9, 2026 at 7:19 AM
dcfedor.bsky.social
Happy new year, everyone!

We've posted a 2025 year in review, for those who are interested. Plus a few sneak peeks on upcoming content.

store.steampowered.com/news/app/102...

#gamedev
Ostranauts - 2025 Year in Review - Steam News
A look back at what we did in 2025, and what's next in 2026.
store.steampowered.com
January 8, 2026 at 10:24 PM
dcfedor.bsky.social
Testing the efficacy of railguns. FOR SCIENCE #gamedev
Ostranauts ship design, approximating the silhouette of a tophat, with 6 railguns mounted on the bow, flanked by 2 PDCs. Sensor clusters project out from either side, along with 18 RCS thrusters symmetrically placed along sides. The docking ring is mounted on the aft. Inside, the ship is spartan. Bare essentials for power, HVAC, RCS, and a NAV station buried near the core of the ship. A dead body in skivvies floats outside the ship near the airlock. Leftovers from an earlier "repel boarders with a shotgun" test.
January 7, 2026 at 11:40 PM
Reposted by Daniel Fedor
tanatb.housefuckinggame.com
accidentally introduced a bug to the game where all the text got replaced with "you"
January 7, 2026 at 12:09 PM
dcfedor.bsky.social
How many games is too many games to put inside your game.
January 5, 2026 at 9:23 PM
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kitfoxgames.com
❄ LAST CHANCE for the Steam winter sale!

store.steampowered.com/developer/ki...
Caves of Qud is 20% off Dwarf Fortress is 20% off Six Ages: Ride like the Wind is 50% off Ostranauts is 20% off
January 4, 2026 at 3:30 PM
dcfedor.bsky.social
A roving ship battle passing close by in the asteroid field. #gamedev
Screenshot of Ostranauts NAV map, a black screen with glowing blue lines slicing it into a grid. The player's ship is a blue triangle in the top left, with gray, hourglass-like arcs of fired radiating out from it. Lower, in center frame, 3 white triangles are drifting toward the lower left corner, their flight trails curving behind them. Two have the red hazard outline denoting recent weapon discharge. Further to the right, another, smaller white triangles arcs toward the group. Brown circles dot the rest of the map, indicating nearby asteroids.
January 3, 2026 at 11:20 PM
dcfedor.bsky.social
Stray fire from a nearby ship battle #gamedev
NAV screen from Ostranauts showing a black screen with glowing vector art plotted in it. A gray-blue frame surrounds it, with MAP printed at the top. The screen shows the player ship, a small blue triangle labeled M-538, with a few gray firing arcs. The arcs are barely a tenth of the map's radius of 377 km. From the bottom center of the screen, a dozen bright red lines streak across to the top, narrowly missing the player. Projectile trails tracked by the NAV from a nearby ship battle. Elsewhere on the map, a scattered few dull brown asteroid circles, and one orange beacon marker.
December 31, 2025 at 11:32 PM
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kitfoxgames.com
Ostranauts is 20% off! store.steampowered.com/app/1022980/...
A positive Steam review of Ostranauts: Start with Project Zomboid. Replace the zombies with a leaky spaceship and poverty. Add some dwarf fortress back-story generation, text based rpg events, and relationships. Then top it off with some Kerbal Space Program for flight controls and you are starting to get an idea of what Ostranauts feels like. I'm hooked
December 30, 2025 at 6:45 PM
dcfedor.bsky.social
One of our playtesters testing the efficacy of ship armor.

On the bottom hull surface, the new modular armor cladding.

On the top, the signature red frames of Ogiso work safety posters, for comparison :) #gamedev
Modified Rouncy ship in Ostranauts. A tan-colored cabin area and gray engine room, all in warm, yellow light. The bottom, exterior hull of the ship is lined with modular, gray, ribbed cladding. A bit like the armor plates one would see along the treads of a tank. Along the top exterior hull are a similar line of red blocks, representing Ogiso work safety posters.
December 29, 2025 at 9:04 PM
dcfedor.bsky.social
Working on the conversation logic for surrendering in a ship-to-ship battle. #gamedev
Screenshot of the COMMS panel in Ostranauts. A black screen with metallic blue borders on left and right. The screen is cropped to a short exchange between two ships, printed in glowing blue fonts: "Cease fire! I surrender!" "You're more valuable to me dead." "Here's $1M!" <in green> "You know, I'm feeling nice today. Fine."
December 28, 2025 at 8:44 PM
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rob-sheridan.com
Buttons are back. Knobs are back. Dumb devices are back. Own-it-forever software is back. Print is back. Personal websites and chronological feeds are back. Touching grass is back. People keep saying 2015, but it’s not far enough. The entire 2010s were a mistake. We must retvrn to… 2009.
wired.com WIRED @wired.com · 26d
Amazingly, reaction times using screens while driving are worse than being drunk or high—no wonder 90 percent of drivers hate using touchscreens in cars. Finally the auto industry is coming to its senses.
Rejoice! Carmakers Are Embracing Physical Buttons Again
Amazingly, reaction times using screens while driving are worse than being drunk or high—no wonder 90 percent of drivers hate using touchscreens in cars. Finally the auto industry is coming to its…
wrd.cm
December 28, 2025 at 3:54 AM
dcfedor.bsky.social
When spacers need a break:

"Smoke break!
Viceroy's orders."
Print ad for a fictional cigarette brand in Ostranauts. A seafoam-green , portrait-orientation poster featuring a large, red, anthropomorphic cartoon rabbit with cream-colored belly. They're standing, leaning against an unseen wall, one leg crossed over the other. One arm is across their chest, while the other casually holds a lit cigarette between fingers in an open hand, palm-up. The print reads: "Sungura Viceroys cigarettes," with the V formed by the rabbit's ears. A tilted cream cigarette box below that features a more natural rabbit silhouette in red, with the same "Sungura Viceroys" built around rabbit ears. The bottom of the package reads "Raw Flavour Tobacco: Filterless." Below the box, in black print, "Smoke break! Viceroy's orders." Art by Freddy Frydenlund. https://freddyfryd.com/
December 26, 2025 at 11:15 PM
dcfedor.bsky.social
A peek at new ship weapons in Ostranauts's upcoming Combat Update #gamedev
A survey of all the new weapon sprites in Ostranauts's upcoming Combat Update. Starting on the top row: 2 Ammo types: - Larger, red cylinders with silver, conical tips, and gunmetal blue trim - Smaller, belt-fed gray casings with gold tips and brown base 3 Missile Types - A squat, dark gray, bulbous body with a red, conical warhead - A long, large white body with black conical tip and exhaust collar - A medium, light gray body with shallow, red, conical tip, and tapered exhaust collar Second row is for Point Defense Cannons (PDCs) - a Dark gray, twin rotating barrel design, with tan panels and details - a white box with many fixed barrel tips peeking out of the firing end, and lots of dark stripes and vent holes on the housing - a light gray, tapered housing with dark red stripes, and with a rotating barrel at the tip. Row three is for Missile Launchers - A dark gray housing similar to the first PDC, but squatter. Four launch tubes are in a chevron pattern on the firing side. - A cluster of 4 long, white tubes in a diamond pattern. - A light gray box with red stripes, and 3 barely distinguishable firing ports along the exterior side. The fourth row has Mass Throwers (Rail and Coil Guns) - Another dark gray and tan housing with lots of exterior greebles, and a long, light gray shaft ribbed with accelerator coils. - A cream-colored box housing with Weber's signature orange and yellow stripes, and a flat gray accelerator track - A light gray stack of rectangles with red stripe accents, and a tapered railgun track at the firing end The bottom row has Cladding - A dark gray, ribbed armor plate with mounting brackets, for hanging on ship wall sections.
December 23, 2025 at 5:55 PM
Reposted by Daniel Fedor
kitfoxgames.com
Ship combat is coming to Ostranauts. Check out this new video of dcfedor.bsky.social demoing the upcoming feature:

youtu.be/jrUwj0kNnxU
Ostranauts ship combat demo
December 19, 2025 at 4:17 PM