Alexander Mosolov

YouTube video by David Baumgart goblin swamp

Happy Goblin Friday!

Easy morning: messed w/ visual effects & story script review.

Set up "vibes mode" button that turns off the UI so you can just hang out in a location and chill. Thank you to @mesotronik.bsky.social / soundcloud.com/mesotronik for the sound loop!

vid: youtu.be/17diA0A4kzw

It's back!

Looks like the website is down, some kind of SSL issue, checking into it - my apologies!

Thank you, digging into it!

A painting of a lush swamp with lots of tangly trees and gnarly roots and weird growths. It's lush and green and goblins love this stuff, I suppose, because it's probably got lots of bugs and people don't tend to come wandering through to interrupt Goblin Business. Also, I put too much detail into this damn thing. Gotta keep it better under control for future location illustrations.

In Fun Art Land, I've been working on finishing up this swamp painting, which is where the goblins live. Because it's sticky and stinky?

Writing new Starsector story things: There's always room for Finlay Siyavong to show up!

(And yes, you can also bring this to Arroyo if you want to give him a headache.)

(TS is getting reduced to 2x on the Anubis specifically, btw.)

Appreciate the kind words!

(Yeah balancing is tricky...)

I mean it's def OP but tournament rules *heavily* influence what works best there!

YouTube video by MisterG Brawl King Season 2 [Grand Finals] Tournament

And, a little belated on my part, the grand finals!

youtu.be/y7Uc1mScPjg

Hi - sorry about the trouble! Hmm, honestly this looks like a graphics driver issue to me. There's a forum thread with what looks like a similar issue, but it was inconclusive as to resolving it, unfortunately.

fractalsoftworks.com/forum/index....

More of an option, but pretty unlikely, I'm not much of a controller guy, don't even have one around :) And honestly the game isn't made with that in mind so while it's impressive how well that mod maps the controls, it's still an uphill battle

(Ahh, "integrating" mods is not really a thing, for various reasons, so no)

This mod adding controller support to Starsector is very cool! Really impressive work.

fractalsoftworks.com/forum/index....

i.imgur.com/OlhhzeM.mp4

BBC World Service - Sporting Witness, The first Esports tournament In 1972, the first ever Esports tournament was held at California's Stanford University

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.

Same. Just, man.

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.

Ahh, ok, gotcha.

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

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

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!

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

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.

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...

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

fractalsoftworks.com/forum/index....

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

Feelin' personally attacked by this

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

testing new Starsector content at the minimum supported screen resolution

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

Super cool 3d rendition of the Wolf!

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

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

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