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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
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
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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
Reposted by Daniel Fedor
brakkaquilltusk.bsky.social
Anyone have any suggestions for games that have this #CassetteFuturism vibe/setting?

Only ones that I can think of are:
- Stories from Sol: The Gun-Dog.
- Prey.
- SIGNALIS.
- Ostranauts.
- Control.
- Stray.
#Vtubers #Vsky #scifi #VtubersUprising #ENVtubers #pngtuber #LGBTQIA2 #sciencefiction
brakkaquilltusk.bsky.social Brakka Quilltusk @brakkaquilltusk.bsky.social · 5d
Why is Cassette Futurism such a fucking vibe?

Like, what is it about sci-fi settings like the OG Aliens that use retro-looking tech that makes them so damn cool? 😍📼💽💖💖💖💖
#scifi #CassetteFuturism #sciencefiction
a cartoon drawing of a machine with the numbers 1 2 and 3
ALT: a cartoon drawing of a machine with the numbers 1 2 and 3
media.tenor.com
December 22, 2025 at 6:20 PM
dcfedor.bsky.social
Placeholder ore yields for mining in the 0.15 update #gamedev
A wide-angle, top-down view of a spaceship hold in Ostranauts. The hold is made of tan, raised floor tiles, with dotted gutters across some doorways. Matching walls run across the top and bottom of the shot, with the signature white and red striped patterns denoting airlock doors embedded in each. Warm lighting fills the room, and pinpricks of green indicate working appliances. Across the floor, in the center of the frame, are stone-colored spheres with large cyan glyphs and a smaller white stack counter on each. The large glyphs read "Mg," "Fe," Si," "Co," "W," "Ir," and "C." Another shot of a loaded cargo hold, this time in medium gray tile floors and tan walls. A bit of brightly-colored blue and yellow reactor kit peeks out from the top and left of the scfreen. And some air processing, RCS thrust, sensor control panel, and storage bins line the bottom of the screen. The center of this screen contains more of the stones with glyphs from the previous image, but also some reading "H2O."
December 22, 2025 at 11:11 PM
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kitfoxgames.com
We made 5 (!) games during this year's Kitfox Winter Jam. You can play all of them for free on itchio:

🎰 Slut Machine
📈 Fat Cat Maxxy's Brand Adventure 3000
🤖 Bitbot
👽 Gleep Glorp! I Crash Landed on an Alien Beach and Now I'm a Hairstylist!
🔵 Pachinklash
Itch.io game pages from the kitfox winter jam: Slut Machine - this is the slut machine Fat Cat Maxxy's Brand Adventure 3000 - Build your brand! Or else! Bitbot - A Desktop friend Gleep Glorp! I Crash Landed on an Alien Beach and Now I'm a Hairstylist - Gleep glorp! A cozy simulation about an alien cat hairstylist. Pachinklash - Have you ever dreamed of filling your screen with thousands of little metal balls?
December 22, 2025 at 7:20 PM
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kitfoxgames.com
Everything is on sale for the Kitfox Steam Winter sale!

❄Store page: store.steampowered.com/publisher/ki...
Ostranauts is 20% off Dwarf Fortress is 20% off Caves of Qud is 20% off Six ages 2 is 30% off
December 20, 2025 at 6:28 PM
dcfedor.bsky.social
Testing out faction beacon colors near Ceres #gamedev
Close-up of Ostranauts's NAV map. A black field crisscrossed with dotted lines every quarter, and the bright blue text at the top reads "ZOOM RANGE: 31745 km" In the top right of the map, "Port Mojave" is printed in white near a white diamond shape, attached to a light green circle representing Ceres. A light green orbital line bisects the circle, bisecting the screen towards the lower left. On the lower left side of the screen is another white diamond, with "Zhonghuamen Terminal" printed near it. Between them both are dozens of solid, tan-colored dots in clusters, and a series of icons that vaguely look like the silhouette of Tie Fighters. Icons closer to Zhonghuamen are red, and labeled with "CCRE Beacon," while the others are blue, closer to Port Mojave, and labeled "Galilean Confederacy Beacon."
December 20, 2025 at 6:19 PM
dcfedor.bsky.social
I may have to dial it down a bit on the scuttle debris... #gamedev
Close-up of the Ostranauts NAV map panel. A blue panel frames a black screen, split into eights by glowing blue dotted lines. The top of the panel reads "MAP" in white print, and inside the bezel of the screen, in bright blue text, is "ZOOM RANGE: 285.19 km" The player's ship (Storm Semicolon) is a tiny blue triangle just north and east of center, with gray firing arcs emanating from it. Just to the southwest is a massive bloom of 50-60 bright red streaks emanating outward from a point. A red particle at the end of each streak. Barely visible in the hail of debris is a white triangle of an NPC ship, named "Elements of Truth."
December 19, 2025 at 9:25 PM
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gatorsdaily.bsky.social
FLAT FUCK IS COMING TO TOWN!!

HAPPY HOLIDAYS GATOR LOVERS!!
December 19, 2025 at 3:38 PM
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stellarjockeys.bsky.social
version 0.3 of Brigador Killers is up on @itch.io and it's called The Garage Build #indiedev #gamedev

stellar-jockeys.itch.io/brigadorkill...
BRIGADOR KILLERS: THE GARAGE BUILD
The next major update to Brigador Killers is live on Itch and called The Garage Build . To mark the occasion, here's one of the new Makeup And Vanity Set songs that you can hear while playing the buil...
stellar-jockeys.itch.io
December 19, 2025 at 12:26 AM
dcfedor.bsky.social
Hey Folks!

Ship Combat Preview and QoL Patch is live!

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

Fixes and improvements for undocking, the PDA Vizor, inventory, and others. Plus a ship combat preview! #gamedev #spaceships
Ostranauts - Ship Combat Preview and QoL Patch - Steam News
Fixes and improvements for undocking, the PDA Vizor, inventory, and others. Plus a ship combat preview!
store.steampowered.com
December 18, 2025 at 5:17 PM
Reposted by Daniel Fedor
spdrcstl.bsky.social
aha right! I like Ostranauts for its gorgeous physical UI for flying a ship around scavenging, and the meticulous ship editing to keep track of atmosphere, pressure, temperature... there's some fun NPC dialogue stuff as well but mostly i like the little fly-scavenge-sell-tweak ship-repeat loop!
December 17, 2025 at 9:24 PM
Reposted by Daniel Fedor
bagpipe89.bsky.social
Another awesome game, now published by @kitfoxgames.com, that I continue to spend far too much time in.

They are adding ship to ship combat 🔫 and fire 🔥which should be spectacular!

Oh and for the love of Baphomet's spine don't eat the "meat chunks" in your Trenchers meal box! 🫢

#Ostranauts
dcfedor.bsky.social Daniel Fedor @dcfedor.bsky.social · 12d
Testing out some new shot and hit indicators in the Ostranauts NAV screen #gamedev
December 17, 2025 at 9:50 PM
dcfedor.bsky.social
Hello, what's this? #gamedev
NAV module in Ostranauts. A blue frame, fastened in the corners by mortorq screws, with 6 small, rectangular, gray buttons spaced evenly along the bottom, like one would find on a cockpit MFD. The word "SENSORS" at the top in white. In the middle is a screen showing a grayscale image of 5 white "lobes" with something darker and more rectangular trapped amidst them. The rest of the screen shows various sensor bands and their % signal contribution, and an aggregate signal score for the image of 100%. The target is reported has having 0 thrusters, 0 crew, and no sensors.
December 17, 2025 at 9:51 PM
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jhaand.bsky.social
Started a new playthrough of #ostranauts with the Retrofit ship. It didn't even have life support. Was quite challenging and fun to survive the first run.

Now let's scavenge for that first oxygen tank on the next run.

Making the ship better will be a nice puzzle after that.
December 14, 2025 at 11:49 PM
dcfedor.bsky.social
Testing out the new smoke and contaminants alarm systems, and fire extinguishing #gamedev
December 16, 2025 at 7:05 PM
dcfedor.bsky.social
#gamedev
Screencap of the Ostranauts #dev channel in Discord. Joshu: "i decided to be very uncreative with them all so we know to replace them later :')" dcfedor: "FINAL ART DETECTED"
December 15, 2025 at 9:11 PM
dcfedor.bsky.social
Testing out some new shot and hit indicators in the Ostranauts NAV screen #gamedev
December 14, 2025 at 7:14 PM
Reposted by Daniel Fedor
kitfoxgames.com
We have a bunch of end-of-year news coming this week. Expect to hear about Dwarf Fortress, Caves of Qud and Ostranauts!
December 14, 2025 at 2:00 PM
Reposted by Daniel Fedor
delaneyking.bsky.social
So in my book Violent Triangles I take game artists back to fundamentals of game art so you understand what is going on under the hood of your game engine and the tricks to exploit it, all presented in clear visual diagrams.

Stuff like rasterisation, anti-aliasing, overdraw, texture memory etc.
December 13, 2025 at 12:47 PM
dcfedor.bsky.social
Naiba: "Getting my ship ready for 0.15"
A small Ostranauts ship with 3-4 closet-sized rooms, and every available space on the floor is crammed full of fire extinguishers. Like a bouncy castle with a smooth, red, segmented floor. Except every segment is fire extinguisher.
December 13, 2025 at 7:23 PM
dcfedor.bsky.social
Move over, James Bond. There's a new face in town.
Ostranauts character creation screen, showing the player appearance app and a bathroom mirror sullied by graffiti and stickers. The character is named Handsome English, and sports a dull, blond mullet, and brooding stare. Handsome's pronouns are set to He/Him, and "Flirts With" is set to everything possible.
December 13, 2025 at 12:27 AM
dcfedor.bsky.social
Crusoe's been retrofitting sensors and weapons onto the old police Vector Mk IIIs to make them into a sort of "space technical" #gamedev
Close-up of a Vector Mk III interceptor ship's airlock area in Ostranauts. The interior lighting casts a sinister red glow on floor grilles in cramped compartments. Outside the ship, it is bristling with more hardware than before, including (clockwise from top): - a dark gray, twin-gatling-style PDC - a squat, white, radar dome with red trim - a smaller, bright white EM sensor dome - two rugged radio antennae pointing opposite directions - a white multi-cowl LiDAR unit - a long, gray accelerator shaft for a coil gun
December 13, 2025 at 12:06 AM
Reposted by Daniel Fedor
felipepepe.bsky.social
I'm too tired to do 50 individual posts, but I made a backloggd list with 70+ indie gems I enjoy: bckl.gg/p7rP

Avoided obvious big hits like Undertale & Obra Dinn to focus on smaller games, but still wanted to shout out stuff like Pseudoregalia, Umurangi & Thirty Flights of Loving.
December 12, 2025 at 2:43 PM