Daniel Fedor

@dcfedor

Developer of Ostranauts and NEO Scavenger. Founder of Blue Bottle Games studio.

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Daniel Fedor@dcfedor· Jun 24

Screencap of the message log in Ostranauts.

The first line, left-justified and in gray, reads "You bash the meat."
The reply, right-justified and in red, says "The meat expands, attempting to subsume you."

Daniel Fedor@dcfedor· Jun 11

This is a legitimate test, I swear!

Screencap of an Ostranauts player log, which reads like a chat/SMS log:

Right-aligned:
"Welcome back, Captain."
"Danielle Bryant watches dramatic reruns on you."

Left aligned:
"Danielle stops watching you."

Daniel Fedor@dcfedor· May 25

Inject this shit straight into my veins.

A product specification sheet listing compatibility with various AI, app, mobile, and other "smart" features.

Every cell says "No"

Daniel Fedor@dcfedor· May 18

Aspect ratio problems be like

Screenshot from Beetlejuice where the titular character sits in a waiting room, and turns to talk to a safari hunter with a shrunken head on a normal sized body.

Except an Ostranauts character has replaced the hunter, similarly with a mis-sized head.

Daniel Fedor@dcfedor· May 17

Pick a Bond from photos you already have on your phone.

A wobbly drawing of Garfield with comic sans word art over him reading "gotta have me a good lasaga"

Daniel Fedor@dcfedor· May 8

Debugging why reactor rooms are so hot all of the sudden. Can *you* spot the culprit? #gamedev

Heatmap of a reactor room in Ostranauts, showing most background objects in black to purple color (room temperature and below).

A human stands near the reactor, colored red (warm).

Most of the reactor parts are in various shades of orange (hotter).

The two laser arrays are in a blistering white color (extremely hot).

Daniel Fedor@dcfedor· May 5

Close-up of status indicators on NPC: "Dirty" and "Sweating"

Daniel Fedor@dcfedor· Apr 28

I'm just jealous *I* didn't build the first fully-enclosed docking bay in Ostranauts.

Screenshot of a massive Ostranauts ship with rows of Miura RCS intakes, reactor tanks, RCS thrusters, missile launchers, PDCs, and even hints of a galley and head with checkered floors.

In center frame, a large, enclosed docking bay, with an aero-shuttle ready to take crew planetside.

In the background, the striated clouds of Venus are framed by the black of space.

Daniel Fedor@dcfedor· Apr 27

It keeps his hands steady

Positive Steam review for Ostranauts, translated from Russian:

"I hired a gray-haired man with the tag 'elderly' (he's 30 years old) because he was the only one on the entire station, including the police, who could walk in a bulky spacesuit without getting debuffs. But he turned out to be a cunning alcoholic who would run to another part of the ship to drink wine after installing each piece of wiring. Finding him once again unconscious in an alcohol coma halfway with a screwdriver in his hands, I started looking for the source of the alcoholic beverages, as I genuinely thought he had drunk everything long ago. It turned out that a shell obtained from an old yacht's bathroom was filled with wine. 10/10"

Steam purchase: Yes
Hours on record: 266.4h

Daniel Fedor@dcfedor· Apr 22

"Hot smokers in your Solar System want to chat." #gamedev

Screenshot of dev channel, showing Ostranauts game logs, with two noted entries:

"So, running a new game, this is the tally of people, smokers, and ugly:"
"People: 248; Uglies 0; Smokers: 178"
"People: 259; Uglies 0; Smokers: 200"

Daniel Fedor@dcfedor· Apr 21

We need a "Stories from the Void" anthology based on player accounts. I heard one recently... here it is:

Old Man Wesley Castillo — 4/16/2026 10:27 AM

So I hired a pirate, and we developed romantically. But it was pretty hard to get her to do any useful amount of work, and eventually I had to fire her. I let her go with a set of tools, her EVA suit with a spare battery, a couple days of food and water, and left her on OKLG.

A few days later I get held up by a pirate and it's her, in a tiny little junk heap of a pod. We had a past so it was easy to talk her down, but I told her no, get off my ship. So she did, and we undocked.

...and then that pod started accelerating. Directly toward the Sun. Gently, but constantly. She was doing better than 5 km/sec when I lost track of her, and there is no way that pod had that much N2. So the spurned lover supernaturally flew off into the Sun.
Emokis: 7 Salutes, 2 red hearts, 2 fires
[in character] Sometimes, when I see the Mariner floating out there, I'm pretty sure it's really Cassidy. And I check my suit seals, because I'm pretty sure Space is angry with me.

Daniel Fedor@dcfedor· Apr 18

Ostranauts: Teaching the intersection of physics and physiology since 2020.

Positive Steam review for Ostranauts:
"Won a ship off a guy in a poker game.
I get on the ship and notice it has like 50 ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ thrusters across all sides.
Take it for a test drive.
Everything is fine...
Notice there's a lever for the thrust and it's set all the way down.
Crank that ♥♥♥♥♥♥ to the max and let it rip.
Wake up on the floor next to the pilot seat with a concussion and internal bleeding."

"Today I learned the human body does not do well when exposed to 50-100G's and the blood is briefly pulled out of your brain like a human centrifuge."

Daniel Fedor@dcfedor· Apr 17

Ayotimiwa-approved recording setup 😛

Photo of a brick-colored blanket draped off of an upright fridge, and spanning over to a lamppost by a nearby wall. A warm glow emanates from within the blanket booth, illuminating a sloped ceiling and wall behind.

Daniel Fedor@dcfedor· Apr 17

Joshu's putting together an explainer video for what's new in Ostranauts's upcoming Fire in the Hold update. A ton of work going into just a few minutes! #gamedev

Photo of a notebook page with thick, marker handwriting. There is a 52-point checklist in blue, 2/3rds of which is checked off with red ink. The page is titled "Wednesday 15th April - Combat Explainer," and the list contains items like "Railgun firing on NAV" and "Zoom out asteroid miner."

A number of the checkboxes have green annotations with arrows connecting them, and there's a legend of highlighter colors and their meanings.

Daniel Fedor@dcfedor· Apr 16

Nothing but faith in our autopilot #gamedev

Daniel Fedor@dcfedor· Apr 7

I guess, uh, someone forgot to tell AI Navy ships not to attack stations... #gamedev

Screen from the Ostranauts SENSORS module on a NAV station, showing the silhouette of a section of Ring Station.

The silhouette is a wide, rectangular shape with antennae and girders sticking out from it. But it is carved deep with railgun round channels and explosives damage on all sides.

Daniel Fedor@dcfedor· Apr 2

If this ship had an associated sound, it would be a dot matrix printer operating #gamedev

$NAV map in Ostranauts, showing a black field bisected by blue grid lines in each quarter. At the center of the screen is a series of stepped lines approximating a ship silhouette, but then the line suddenly veers way off to the right and starts tracing an anfractuosity of parallel lines in a tight square shape.$

Daniel Fedor@dcfedor· Mar 31

"A huge, yellow goat eye gazes out of a bulging chunk of raw meat."

Daniel Fedor@dcfedor· Mar 31

This absolute gem of a reply to the Fire in the Hold news

Reddit comment from maxmurder, "Don't you wanna know why we keep startin' fires?!"

Daniel Fedor@dcfedor· Feb 22

Fuck yeah going to the front lines with my Sega Menacer

PBS news image of a soldier in fatigues pointing his anti drone gun towards the sky. It kind of looks like if an mp5 had every surface extruded 150% and then had a soft plastic shell stretched over it.

Daniel Fedor@dcfedor· Feb 11

There's a good chance we'll keep this mode in the long run as an option on the main menu. If nothing else, it's great for folks to practice flying and/or fighting with low risk to their saves. Like the combat simulator in Wing Commander :P

Screenshot of the bar interior from Wing Commander, with two pilots sitting at a table, and a barkeep behind the bar.

An arcade-like seated cabinet with cowl over the screen sits in the lower left-hand corner, where players could practice flying.

Daniel Fedor@dcfedor· Feb 11

For those that missed it yesterday, you can now play a sneak peek of our upcoming ship combat in Ostranauts! Arena Mode lets you build spaceships out of working Lego-like parts, then field it against endless waves of hostile ships to see how far you get. #gamedev steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/...