https://stargazer.ghostdubber.com Auto-syncing dev diaries, commits, and visual verification screenshots for StarGazer space-combat roguelike. en-us Thu, 16 Jul 2026 03:28:43 GMT https://stargazer.ghostdubber.com/blog/2026-07-15-i-gave-three-small-ships-a-reason-to-cross-the-dark https://stargazer.ghostdubber.com/blog/2026-07-15-i-gave-three-small-ships-a-reason-to-cross-the-dark Wed, 15 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT From the command chair, I wanted every distant light to mean something: ore coming home, cargo moving, or a patrol keeping watch. https://stargazer.ghostdubber.com/blog/2026-07-15-the-galaxy-learned-to-say-no https://stargazer.ghostdubber.com/blog/2026-07-15-the-galaxy-learned-to-say-no Wed, 15 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT I wanted the galaxy beyond the bow to stop feeling like a field of dots, and tonight one distant star told my capital ship it was not welcome. https://stargazer.ghostdubber.com/blog/2026-07-15-the-lights-in-the-dark-have-names-now https://stargazer.ghostdubber.com/blog/2026-07-15-the-lights-in-the-dark-have-names-now Wed, 15 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT I wanted every distant station to feel worth crossing the dark for, with a purpose, a flag, and wounds that wait for your return. https://stargazer.ghostdubber.com/blog/2026-07-10-my-living-world-was-counting-its-dead-as-alive https://stargazer.ghostdubber.com/blog/2026-07-10-my-living-world-was-counting-its-dead-as-alive Fri, 10 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT Yesterday my star system passed its own health check. Today I caught it counting corpses as crew, and the honest fix finally taught the world to measure itself without lying. https://stargazer.ghostdubber.com/blog/2026-07-02-the-guns-are-real-now-and-the-hull-knows-how-to-mend https://stargazer.ghostdubber.com/blog/2026-07-02-the-guns-are-real-now-and-the-hull-knows-how-to-mend Thu, 02 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT My ship finally wears guns you could shoot clean off her spine, and when I limp clear of the fight and hold the weave, her heart drinks the reactor dry to knit the wounds closed in violet light. https://stargazer.ghostdubber.com/blog/2026-06-23-the-fleet-finally-glows-on-pc https://stargazer.ghostdubber.com/blog/2026-06-23-the-fleet-finally-glows-on-pc Tue, 23 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT For weeks PC players could see everything except the ships. Tonight the whole fleet finally drew, and then it caught fire with light. https://stargazer.ghostdubber.com/blog/2026-06-18-the-day-the-ship-became-mine-to-shape https://stargazer.ghostdubber.com/blog/2026-06-18-the-day-the-ship-became-mine-to-shape Thu, 18 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT This morning the answer was no. By night you could stand on your own bridge and rebuild your warship in the dark, watch it tear itself down and become yours. Then a panel of pitiless reviewers tore the whole thing open and found twelve wounds I had been quietly taping over. https://stargazer.ghostdubber.com/blog/2026-06-13-a-million-blocks-deep https://stargazer.ghostdubber.com/blog/2026-06-13-a-million-blocks-deep Sat, 13 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT For months my capital ships were gorgeous hollow shells that faked every wound. This week I deleted the last of them and rebuilt the whole fleet out of solid matter, so now when you punch a hole in one, you are staring straight into its guts. https://stargazer.ghostdubber.com/blog/2026-06-08-the-ship-i-grew-up-wanting-to-command https://stargazer.ghostdubber.com/blog/2026-06-08-the-ship-i-grew-up-wanting-to-command Mon, 08 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT The silhouette everyone knows now flies in my fleet: a broad saucer, a slim body behind it, two nacelles swept high and glowing blue. I finally built the ship I sat too close to the TV for. https://stargazer.ghostdubber.com/blog/2026-06-07-the-fleet-got-its-colors https://stargazer.ghostdubber.com/blog/2026-06-07-the-fleet-got-its-colors Sun, 07 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT For weeks my whole fleet was the same grey smear. Then I went loud, and a battle line of rival houses came up out of the fog: steel blue, deep violet, and a dreadnought the color of old blood. https://stargazer.ghostdubber.com/blog/2026-06-03-the-hull-tears-open https://stargazer.ghostdubber.com/blog/2026-06-03-the-hull-tears-open Wed, 03 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT For weeks my ships died on the inside while the outside stayed perfect. Tonight the armor finally tears open where the shot lands, glowing at the rim, the ship's bones showing through the dark. https://stargazer.ghostdubber.com/blog/2026-05-30-five-days-in-the-chair https://stargazer.ghostdubber.com/blog/2026-05-30-five-days-in-the-chair Sat, 30 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT Five nights of work in the captain's chair: the ship learns to wheel in three dimensions, the guns trade a cheat-beam for honest steel, and the cockpit finally looks like an instrument I trust. https://stargazer.ghostdubber.com/blog/2026-05-30-the-day-i-lit-the-whole-sky https://stargazer.ghostdubber.com/blog/2026-05-30-the-day-i-lit-the-whole-sky Sat, 30 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT For weeks my ship sailed through a darkness it carried with it, until one switch finally lit the whole sky and the hull became something worth flying. https://stargazer.ghostdubber.com/blog/2026-05-29-a-hundred-meter-ship-wheeling-in-the-dark https://stargazer.ghostdubber.com/blog/2026-05-29-a-hundred-meter-ship-wheeling-in-the-dark Fri, 29 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT It used to fake its turns. Now the ship fires real jets against its own weight, vents cold gas you can read, and you can shoot those jets to pin it. https://stargazer.ghostdubber.com/blog/2026-05-27-see-through-ship https://stargazer.ghostdubber.com/blog/2026-05-27-see-through-ship Wed, 27 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT From the back, my warship was a ghost. Engines hanging in the dark with nothing behind them. Three wrong fixes later, the real culprit was hiding where I never thought to look. https://stargazer.ghostdubber.com/blog/2026-05-26-whisper-to-the-living-ship https://stargazer.ghostdubber.com/blog/2026-05-26-whisper-to-the-living-ship Tue, 26 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT Tuning the ship used to mean stopping the world, changing one number, and waiting to see it again. Now I reach into the ship while it is still flying, turn the dial, and watch it answer in the same breath. https://stargazer.ghostdubber.com/blog/2026-05-25-share-one-heart https://stargazer.ghostdubber.com/blog/2026-05-25-share-one-heart Mon, 25 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT Every capital ship now carries the same glowing core at its centerline. One shape to learn, every hull. The day I gave the whole fleet one heart. https://stargazer.ghostdubber.com/blog/2026-05-24-where-the-work-lives https://stargazer.ghostdubber.com/blog/2026-05-24-where-the-work-lives Sun, 24 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT I decided the guns point themselves where you can see them, and the menu never begs for more memory mid-fight. Both calls protect one thing: a big ship running on a small machine. https://stargazer.ghostdubber.com/blog/2026-05-23-damage-opens-the-hull https://stargazer.ghostdubber.com/blog/2026-05-23-damage-opens-the-hull Sat, 23 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT When a beam lands on a capital ship, the cheap thing is for the wound to vanish. The right thing is for the ship to come open. Today it came open. https://stargazer.ghostdubber.com/blog/2026-05-23-guts-and-glow https://stargazer.ghostdubber.com/blog/2026-05-23-guts-and-glow Sat, 23 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT The first day damage stopped looking like deletion and started looking like a wound. Armor peels, ribs show, and the enemy has learned to circle. https://stargazer.ghostdubber.com/blog/2026-05-22-how-the-ship-should-feel https://stargazer.ghostdubber.com/blog/2026-05-22-how-the-ship-should-feel Fri, 22 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT Does the ship dart or does it drift? I want it to drift. Three decisions in a row, all serving that one feeling. https://stargazer.ghostdubber.com/blog/2026-05-22-the-ship-coasts-now https://stargazer.ghostdubber.com/blog/2026-05-22-the-ship-coasts-now Fri, 22 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT I gave the ship drift, broadside arcs, and a quiet foundation strong enough to hold a debris field. Today it stopped being a toy. https://stargazer.ghostdubber.com/blog/2026-05-21-day-one-owe-nobody https://stargazer.ghostdubber.com/blog/2026-05-21-day-one-owe-nobody Thu, 21 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT Two calls I made before any of the game existed. One about the machine that runs the ship. One about the words on the screen. Both about owing nobody. https://stargazer.ghostdubber.com/blog/2026-05-21-first-transmissions-one-window https://stargazer.ghostdubber.com/blog/2026-05-21-first-transmissions-one-window Thu, 21 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT All I wanted on the first day was a window, a ship, a grid for scale, and a camera that follows. Four small proofs that the dream is real.