dgbaumgart
@dgbaumgart.bsky.social
artist, game designer, art director, writer, independent game developer, he/him
working in games since 2007
formerly Gaslamp Games, currently mostly Starsector
https://www.dgbaumgart.com/
https://dgbaumgart.itch.io/
working in games since 2007
formerly Gaslamp Games, currently mostly Starsector
https://www.dgbaumgart.com/
https://dgbaumgart.itch.io/
That was pretty easy. Some of these locations are still too close together though so I'm going to have to do a lot more nudging.
The more labourious part is now redoing interaction scripts for two sides of the bridge. (And for the future: allowing NPCs to navigate over the "blocked" connection.)
The more labourious part is now redoing interaction scripts for two sides of the bridge. (And for the future: allowing NPCs to navigate over the "blocked" connection.)
November 9, 2025 at 5:05 PM
That was pretty easy. Some of these locations are still too close together though so I'm going to have to do a lot more nudging.
The more labourious part is now redoing interaction scripts for two sides of the bridge. (And for the future: allowing NPCs to navigate over the "blocked" connection.)
The more labourious part is now redoing interaction scripts for two sides of the bridge. (And for the future: allowing NPCs to navigate over the "blocked" connection.)
Problem: I want crossing the guarded bridge to be an Interesting Problem. If its a single location I have to do a bunch of hax to track which side a character approached from to not let them traverse w/o.. yet more hax.
So I think I need to split the bridge into two locations.
Time to redraw!
So I think I need to split the bridge into two locations.
Time to redraw!
November 8, 2025 at 9:22 PM
Problem: I want crossing the guarded bridge to be an Interesting Problem. If its a single location I have to do a bunch of hax to track which side a character approached from to not let them traverse w/o.. yet more hax.
So I think I need to split the bridge into two locations.
Time to redraw!
So I think I need to split the bridge into two locations.
Time to redraw!
More waterfall! I think I'll leave it there.
November 7, 2025 at 11:51 PM
More waterfall! I think I'll leave it there.
I do have one art thing to show off: started an illustration for the waterfall location. This is a second take on the composition because the first one I did can only be described as "ultra boring".
(Can you go behind the waterfall? Probably.)
(Can you go behind the waterfall? Probably.)
November 7, 2025 at 7:07 PM
I do have one art thing to show off: started an illustration for the waterfall location. This is a second take on the composition because the first one I did can only be described as "ultra boring".
(Can you go behind the waterfall? Probably.)
(Can you go behind the waterfall? Probably.)
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.)
(And yes, you can also bring this to Arroyo if you want to give him a headache.)
November 4, 2025 at 10:01 PM
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.)
(And yes, you can also bring this to Arroyo if you want to give him a headache.)
Shediac, New Brunswick is wild y'all.
(I know, wrong colour.)
(I know, wrong colour.)
![A photograph of myself in front of a giant, monstrous lobster [statue]. There is a statue of fisherman between the monstrously huge claws of the lobster; his hand is held at his brow, looking out toward the horrors of the sea.
My posture mirrors his; my hand is shading my eyes, also shaded by sunglasses and a hat, as I look to the horrors of the sea.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:gbtm6kqwoskky3nje5fmnyoo/bafkreiegamudejlaomzsxqlh6iaxz2njl6kwvziyc7pyrvrcz7rb6atrqa@jpeg)
September 28, 2025 at 11:45 PM
Shediac, New Brunswick is wild y'all.
(I know, wrong colour.)
(I know, wrong colour.)
I don't like drawing horses... but I think I'm OK with these.
Gotta mess with scale a bit to fit 'em into the 128x128 box.
(I feel like there are people who are really into horses who can knock this stuff out off-the-dome. I am not one of those people.)
Gotta mess with scale a bit to fit 'em into the 128x128 box.
(I feel like there are people who are really into horses who can knock this stuff out off-the-dome. I am not one of those people.)
September 27, 2025 at 7:14 PM
I don't like drawing horses... but I think I'm OK with these.
Gotta mess with scale a bit to fit 'em into the 128x128 box.
(I feel like there are people who are really into horses who can knock this stuff out off-the-dome. I am not one of those people.)
Gotta mess with scale a bit to fit 'em into the 128x128 box.
(I feel like there are people who are really into horses who can knock this stuff out off-the-dome. I am not one of those people.)
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...
dgbaumgart.itch.io/icons-food-s...
September 22, 2025 at 8:15 PM
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...
dgbaumgart.itch.io/icons-food-s...
Also hey, my friend Sean is looking for work! He's a 3D environmental artist, and we worked together back in the day at Gaslamp Games.
www.artstation.com/merrigore
www.artstation.com/merrigore
September 17, 2025 at 5:23 PM
Also hey, my friend Sean is looking for work! He's a 3D environmental artist, and we worked together back in the day at Gaslamp Games.
www.artstation.com/merrigore
www.artstation.com/merrigore
testing new Starsector content at the minimum supported screen resolution
September 17, 2025 at 4:16 PM
testing new Starsector content at the minimum supported screen resolution
Goblin Friday!
I'm amazed at how quickly this came together. Was feeling stressed & bummed about lots of other stuff (largely water leak in house related), but - dang! It works!
'Course it needs a bunch more Maths and tooltips and data save/load. Nonetheless, wow!
(Godot is nice, also, btw.)
I'm amazed at how quickly this came together. Was feeling stressed & bummed about lots of other stuff (largely water leak in house related), but - dang! It works!
'Course it needs a bunch more Maths and tooltips and data save/load. Nonetheless, wow!
(Godot is nice, also, btw.)
September 5, 2025 at 7:39 PM
Goblin Friday!
I'm amazed at how quickly this came together. Was feeling stressed & bummed about lots of other stuff (largely water leak in house related), but - dang! It works!
'Course it needs a bunch more Maths and tooltips and data save/load. Nonetheless, wow!
(Godot is nice, also, btw.)
I'm amazed at how quickly this came together. Was feeling stressed & bummed about lots of other stuff (largely water leak in house related), but - dang! It works!
'Course it needs a bunch more Maths and tooltips and data save/load. Nonetheless, wow!
(Godot is nice, also, btw.)
Wormsy has a coconut in her inventory!!!
(An item slot flagged "inventory" in a UI layout containing a UID which refers to an item instance connected to an item type data entry which pulls data from a CSV file which contains the icon sprite name pulled from the image loader to... you get the idea.)
(An item slot flagged "inventory" in a UI layout containing a UID which refers to an item instance connected to an item type data entry which pulls data from a CSV file which contains the icon sprite name pulled from the image loader to... you get the idea.)
August 30, 2025 at 9:06 PM
Wormsy has a coconut in her inventory!!!
(An item slot flagged "inventory" in a UI layout containing a UID which refers to an item instance connected to an item type data entry which pulls data from a CSV file which contains the icon sprite name pulled from the image loader to... you get the idea.)
(An item slot flagged "inventory" in a UI layout containing a UID which refers to an item instance connected to an item type data entry which pulls data from a CSV file which contains the icon sprite name pulled from the image loader to... you get the idea.)
Anyway, looks like it's from a drainpipe shared by the building so that means the building's insurance covers it. Yay!
August 29, 2025 at 6:44 PM
Anyway, looks like it's from a drainpipe shared by the building so that means the building's insurance covers it. Yay!
Goblin Friday!
(Last week was off for camping.)
(And this week, mostly stressing out about another leak coming through the ceiling, but-)
Putting together the framework for a slot-based inventory system. I love these; always have, and always will.
Pictured: Kreeee wielding a coconut on his head.
(Last week was off for camping.)
(And this week, mostly stressing out about another leak coming through the ceiling, but-)
Putting together the framework for a slot-based inventory system. I love these; always have, and always will.
Pictured: Kreeee wielding a coconut on his head.
August 29, 2025 at 4:21 PM
Goblin Friday!
(Last week was off for camping.)
(And this week, mostly stressing out about another leak coming through the ceiling, but-)
Putting together the framework for a slot-based inventory system. I love these; always have, and always will.
Pictured: Kreeee wielding a coconut on his head.
(Last week was off for camping.)
(And this week, mostly stressing out about another leak coming through the ceiling, but-)
Putting together the framework for a slot-based inventory system. I love these; always have, and always will.
Pictured: Kreeee wielding a coconut on his head.
And while we're here, it's always fun to find an opportunity to write a little bit of Baird-being-mean-to-the-player for the next update.
August 19, 2025 at 8:20 PM
And while we're here, it's always fun to find an opportunity to write a little bit of Baird-being-mean-to-the-player for the next update.
Goblin Friday!
Coming back after a week off (camping!)
Fresh perspective: wrote some documentation & specs for features I've been putting off (inventory/items + "human alarm").
Feedback makes me want to get all the mechanics in working together, however placeholdery. So I'm working on that a bit!
Coming back after a week off (camping!)
Fresh perspective: wrote some documentation & specs for features I've been putting off (inventory/items + "human alarm").
Feedback makes me want to get all the mechanics in working together, however placeholdery. So I'm working on that a bit!
August 15, 2025 at 3:33 PM
Goblin Friday!
Coming back after a week off (camping!)
Fresh perspective: wrote some documentation & specs for features I've been putting off (inventory/items + "human alarm").
Feedback makes me want to get all the mechanics in working together, however placeholdery. So I'm working on that a bit!
Coming back after a week off (camping!)
Fresh perspective: wrote some documentation & specs for features I've been putting off (inventory/items + "human alarm").
Feedback makes me want to get all the mechanics in working together, however placeholdery. So I'm working on that a bit!
Oh man, I did it!
Rules/scripts fire off all in the same frame unless there's any wait-for condition, in which case it waits for that condition to resolve, then picks up execution where it left off.
Total control over execution timing has revealed some bugs and jank - good! Time to clean it up...
Rules/scripts fire off all in the same frame unless there's any wait-for condition, in which case it waits for that condition to resolve, then picks up execution where it left off.
Total control over execution timing has revealed some bugs and jank - good! Time to clean it up...
August 3, 2025 at 4:21 PM
Oh man, I did it!
Rules/scripts fire off all in the same frame unless there's any wait-for condition, in which case it waits for that condition to resolve, then picks up execution where it left off.
Total control over execution timing has revealed some bugs and jank - good! Time to clean it up...
Rules/scripts fire off all in the same frame unless there's any wait-for condition, in which case it waits for that condition to resolve, then picks up execution where it left off.
Total control over execution timing has revealed some bugs and jank - good! Time to clean it up...
Goblin Friday!
A couple days ago I sent a couple builds to a couple people for feedback.
Doing this made me realize how inadequate the basic "infrastructure" is - quit, menu state, pause/continue, turn state transitions. So I'm doing a pass through those.
Maybe even save/load, if we're lucky?
A couple days ago I sent a couple builds to a couple people for feedback.
Doing this made me realize how inadequate the basic "infrastructure" is - quit, menu state, pause/continue, turn state transitions. So I'm doing a pass through those.
Maybe even save/load, if we're lucky?
August 1, 2025 at 7:11 PM
Goblin Friday!
A couple days ago I sent a couple builds to a couple people for feedback.
Doing this made me realize how inadequate the basic "infrastructure" is - quit, menu state, pause/continue, turn state transitions. So I'm doing a pass through those.
Maybe even save/load, if we're lucky?
A couple days ago I sent a couple builds to a couple people for feedback.
Doing this made me realize how inadequate the basic "infrastructure" is - quit, menu state, pause/continue, turn state transitions. So I'm doing a pass through those.
Maybe even save/load, if we're lucky?
Alright, it's coming together!
Here's the portrait for said character with Starsector-brand Wonky Space Lighting.
Here's the portrait for said character with Starsector-brand Wonky Space Lighting.
July 30, 2025 at 12:43 PM
Alright, it's coming together!
Here's the portrait for said character with Starsector-brand Wonky Space Lighting.
Here's the portrait for said character with Starsector-brand Wonky Space Lighting.
Not quite *that* hardcore - we went to Lac Écho in Réserve faunique Papineau-Labelle. Gorgeous lake, and surprisingly good infrastructure in the campground. We skipped the first day due to thunderstorms so only did one night; going to have to get back there if we can.
July 27, 2025 at 9:01 PM
Not quite *that* hardcore - we went to Lac Écho in Réserve faunique Papineau-Labelle. Gorgeous lake, and surprisingly good infrastructure in the campground. We skipped the first day due to thunderstorms so only did one night; going to have to get back there if we can.
Goblin Friday!
Missed a couple due to travel. Back to Goblin Mode!
Goal: get a build playable again to send to people I met and promised could play a build; they haven't seen progress in a year!
Step 1: make it so you can play the base scenario start to end w/o any weirdness or bugs.
Missed a couple due to travel. Back to Goblin Mode!
Goal: get a build playable again to send to people I met and promised could play a build; they haven't seen progress in a year!
Step 1: make it so you can play the base scenario start to end w/o any weirdness or bugs.
July 25, 2025 at 1:39 PM
Goblin Friday!
Missed a couple due to travel. Back to Goblin Mode!
Goal: get a build playable again to send to people I met and promised could play a build; they haven't seen progress in a year!
Step 1: make it so you can play the base scenario start to end w/o any weirdness or bugs.
Missed a couple due to travel. Back to Goblin Mode!
Goal: get a build playable again to send to people I met and promised could play a build; they haven't seen progress in a year!
Step 1: make it so you can play the base scenario start to end w/o any weirdness or bugs.
We didn't take the trail. A guy show showed up even warned us that we needed 4 wheel drive, and he had popped a tire on it.
The image is what Google Maps looks like now - it implies that the main road, Route 1, takes this stupid, terrible trail around the private road.
No car should drive that.
The image is what Google Maps looks like now - it implies that the main road, Route 1, takes this stupid, terrible trail around the private road.
No car should drive that.
July 6, 2025 at 1:28 AM
We didn't take the trail. A guy show showed up even warned us that we needed 4 wheel drive, and he had popped a tire on it.
The image is what Google Maps looks like now - it implies that the main road, Route 1, takes this stupid, terrible trail around the private road.
No car should drive that.
The image is what Google Maps looks like now - it implies that the main road, Route 1, takes this stupid, terrible trail around the private road.
No car should drive that.
OK, weird. The proper road that was obviously where Route 1 should go had sign for "Chemin Pekan" and led to vacation homes. We were being routed around on (frankly) a bullshit unsafe ATV trail covered in fist-sized rocks. A map was posted with this new "Route 1" drawn in with a dotted line.
July 6, 2025 at 1:26 AM
OK, weird. The proper road that was obviously where Route 1 should go had sign for "Chemin Pekan" and led to vacation homes. We were being routed around on (frankly) a bullshit unsafe ATV trail covered in fist-sized rocks. A map was posted with this new "Route 1" drawn in with a dotted line.
I need to vent about this.
Last week we tried to drive to a campground in Réserve faunique de Papineau-Labelle. Route 1, a dirt/gravel road, which should get us there. At Lac Smallian, the road was blocked and claimed to be a private road. What looked like an ATV trail has a sign for "Route 1".
Last week we tried to drive to a campground in Réserve faunique de Papineau-Labelle. Route 1, a dirt/gravel road, which should get us there. At Lac Smallian, the road was blocked and claimed to be a private road. What looked like an ATV trail has a sign for "Route 1".
July 6, 2025 at 1:23 AM
I need to vent about this.
Last week we tried to drive to a campground in Réserve faunique de Papineau-Labelle. Route 1, a dirt/gravel road, which should get us there. At Lac Smallian, the road was blocked and claimed to be a private road. What looked like an ATV trail has a sign for "Route 1".
Last week we tried to drive to a campground in Réserve faunique de Papineau-Labelle. Route 1, a dirt/gravel road, which should get us there. At Lac Smallian, the road was blocked and claimed to be a private road. What looked like an ATV trail has a sign for "Route 1".
I wrote a blog post for @amosolov.bsky.social's Starsector, "Creating Threat", about drawing spaceship horrors.
(It starts with bismuth and deep-sea snails and ends in... well, HR Giger, basically.)
fractalsoftworks.com/2025/07/03/c...
(It starts with bismuth and deep-sea snails and ends in... well, HR Giger, basically.)
fractalsoftworks.com/2025/07/03/c...
July 3, 2025 at 9:50 PM
I wrote a blog post for @amosolov.bsky.social's Starsector, "Creating Threat", about drawing spaceship horrors.
(It starts with bismuth and deep-sea snails and ends in... well, HR Giger, basically.)
fractalsoftworks.com/2025/07/03/c...
(It starts with bismuth and deep-sea snails and ends in... well, HR Giger, basically.)
fractalsoftworks.com/2025/07/03/c...