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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
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mooneysart.bsky.social
hard surfaces and all that!
February 9, 2026 at 9:54 PM
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faineg.bsky.social
people who say that all creative endeavor can be replaced with AI probably need to reckon with the fact that all televised sports events with human athletes could easily be replicated by high-definition computer-animated simulations….and yet we don’t do this and no one seems to want to.
February 8, 2026 at 7:26 PM
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michaelklamerus.bsky.social
Detroit Historical Museum is having an exhibit on the ttrpg RIFTS?!?
photo of Worlds of Palladium exhibit with covers of their books on the wall and other various bits on the left wall
February 6, 2026 at 2:17 PM
dcfedor.bsky.social
Boy... that escalated quickly.

#gamedev
Running log of COMMs between player ship and the "Discretion / Valour": DV: Why are you target locking us? PS: Surrender, or be destroyed. DV: Unlock us first, then we'll talk. PS: Surrender, or be destroyed. DV: Okay! Anything you want! Just don't kill me. PS: Offer me money. DV: What if I let you board my ship instead? PS: Not good enough. DV: <transmission ends> Close-up of the NAV screen a moment later, showing our ship in the center, and several dozen pieces of a ship exploding in all directions near the top of the screen. In the wake of the explosion are another ship, the Missing Lion, and a CCRE Beacon.
February 6, 2026 at 11:17 PM
dcfedor.bsky.social
I'm gonna be honest here...
Screenshot of an email from "Rae" with their gmail address blurred out, to "Daniel Fedor." Email has no subject. Body text reads "Open to a conversation if this feels relevant."
February 6, 2026 at 5:45 PM
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kitfoxgames.com
Caves of Qud mutates onto the Nintendo Switch, February 16th!
February 4, 2026 at 9:00 PM
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papapishu.bsky.social
We gotta go back.
Tribes 2 cover. There’s a robot man with a disc shooting device. He carries a banner. He’s excited.
February 4, 2026 at 8:53 PM
dcfedor.bsky.social
new EVA
who dis?

#gamedev
Sneak preview of a new EVA suit coming in the "Fire in the Hold" update. A head-and-shoulder cropped image of an EVA suit with bulky, white panels over a black base. Various surface seams and LEDs dot the panels, and a mysterious greenish glow comes from off-screen below. The helmet is significantly wider than the standard Ostranauts EVA, and features a gold-hued reflective visor.
February 4, 2026 at 11:18 PM
dcfedor.bsky.social
Guess who got some new toys? #gamedev
Ostranauts NAV console, a blue control panel littered with readouts, LEDs, knobs, buttons, and sliders. Dominating the right side of the screen is a MAP panel showing a black field sliced by dotted, blue, glowing lines. The top reads ZOOM RANGE 334.03 km, and we see two vessels squaring off at opposite sides of the map. On the lower left, our ship appears as a tiny white triangle, with arcs of fire fanning out in all directions. Opposite in the upper right, we have a red triangle representing an enemy ship, a so-called Pequod "Technical" refit, also displayed in a SENSOR panel on the left in greater detail. Splaying out from both vessels are dozens of red and lavender dots with IDs next to each, and long, arcing paths behind them. This is the new decoy missile system, and both our and the AI ship are using decoys to try and divert incoming missile salvos.
February 3, 2026 at 11:05 PM
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kitfoxgames.com
A bunch of our games are on sale on Steam!
Dwarf Fortress is 20% off Ostranauts is 20% off Caves of Qud is 20% off Pupperazzi is 55% off Six Ages 1 is 50% off Fit for a King is 80% off Six Ages 2 is 30% off
February 3, 2026 at 10:23 PM
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kitfoxgames.com
Check out the new Ostranauts cover art!

Background art by: Charlie Martin
Spacer by: Xin Ran Liu
Ostranauts cover art featuring a spacer wearing an orange spacesuit with a handheld space drill working on the side of a spaceship.
February 3, 2026 at 7:22 PM
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cody-from-canada.bsky.social
I'm extremely excited to see what the folks at Blue Bottle games have been cooking up for 2026 - I can't wait to jump back in for the Fire in the hold update. Really cool game they're making here!
dcfedor.bsky.social Daniel Fedor @dcfedor.bsky.social · Jan 8
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
February 3, 2026 at 8:37 AM
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nakazaniye.bsky.social
Yep
February 1, 2026 at 12:21 PM
dcfedor.bsky.social
Killing two birds with... four missiles? #gamedev
Ostranauts NAV screen, a blue control panel with buttons, knobs, sliders, LEDs, and screen readouts. In the center of the panel is a large black map with blue, dotted grid lines. Our ship, a blue triangle named "Terrible Tattoo" is firing 4 missiles at two, white triangle, enemy ships at the top of the map: the "Yellow Opera" and "Debatable Merit." The missiles are creating a "V" pattern of red lines emanating from our ship toward them.
January 30, 2026 at 6:34 PM
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kitfoxgames.com
The Tiny Rogulikes sale is here and a bunch of our games are on sale!

store.steampowered.com/publisher/ki...
Tiny Roguelikes sale on Steam. Caves of Qud - 20% off Six Ages 2 - 30% off Ostranauts - 20% off
January 30, 2026 at 2:30 PM
dcfedor.bsky.social
"It's just a flesh wound." #gamedev
Ostranauts NAV console, with a variety of knobs, buttons, sliders, and readouts. In the center, a map shows our ship (a blue triangle with gray firing arcs) pointing at a target ship (red triangle and label, denoting that it is marked as hostile) with green trifoil hit indicator around it from our recent railgun damage to it. On the left, we see our own ship in a WEAPONS CONTROL module with a variety of weapons all in green/loaded status. Below that, a SENSORS module shows a white silhouette of their ship with various stats. Notably, almost half of the target ship is smeared with crimson streaks, denoting where our railguns have carved channels into the ship.
January 27, 2026 at 7:15 PM
dcfedor.bsky.social
Testing out new "pincer" missile path.

We were getting heavy traffic along the line of fire between two ships before, and it was making it a little too easy to snipe a while volley. #gamedev
Ostranauts NAV map screen: a field of black bisected by glowing blue, dotted lines. ZOOM RANGE at the top reads 50.70 km in bright glowing blue. At the center, our ship is a blue triangle pointed downward. It has hourglass-like PDC firing arcs above and below it, and a longer railgun firing arc extending downward, off-screen. A series of scalloped red lines emanate from the ship's left and right side, banking sharply towards the bottom of the screen after about 18 km distance from the ship. Like a giant pincer or caliper. 8 numbered projectile icons are at the head of these red lines. These are the new missile path algorithm in action, firing straight out from the ship a few seconds before turning toward the target.
January 23, 2026 at 9:03 PM
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
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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
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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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Bandcamp is announcing that they're prohibiting music created wholly or with subtantial use of AI
From the BandCamp community on Reddit
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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