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Developer of Free Stars: Children of Infinity, sequel to The Ur-Quan Masters. https://freestarsgame.com/ | 🎮https://discord.gg/rasVCDmYKp | We are Fred Ford and Dan Gerstein @pebby.net
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Milestone 7 update is available for your sensory organs' pleasure. We discuss the plans forward for release, our work on Melee, and our Kickstarter reward manufacturing! www.kickstarter.com/projects/pis...
Update 45: Milestone 7 Update · FREE STARS: Children of Infinity
Humans of Earth! It is that time again, or possibly past that time. No matter: grab your favorite liquid, prepare a good repast, and buckle your eyeballs into their sockets for the thrilling text adve...
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We finally know what happened to the Androsynth!
December 5, 2025 at 9:08 PM
Shipping update just shared on Kickstarter for all of our backers receiving physical rewards! www.kickstarter.com/projects/pis...
Update 46: Shipping Update · FREE STARS: Children of Infinity
Hello, beautiful backers of our project who are receiving physical rewards! We wanted to share a brief shipping update with all of you. Starting next week, we’re going to be locking your address in Ba...
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December 5, 2025 at 8:24 PM
The competition for "silliest ship to play" in Free Stars: Children of Infinity is hot, and this might be our current heavyweight champ (piloted by the CPU and energy/damage values thankfully not tuned ;). #Godot
November 18, 2025 at 9:39 PM
New Mini-Demo and tech report just for Patreon folks: representing player UI focus across the network. www.patreon.com/posts/mini-d...
Mini-Demo: Sharing UI Focus Online | Pistol Shrimp
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November 14, 2025 at 7:31 PM
Our Starmap in physical form for the first time! This is just a proof, used for quality assurance before we run them all. The final version for backers won’t have a white border and a person holding it up.
November 11, 2025 at 10:41 PM
We don’t get to meet up in person too often, but when we do we sure are happy. Now we just have to sign thousands of thank you cards!
November 7, 2025 at 7:12 PM
Happy Halloween! Hope we get some trick or treaters tonight.
October 31, 2025 at 8:34 PM
This is what 2,000 Lorebooks look like.
October 28, 2025 at 8:37 PM
Reminder! We will now be collecting funds for late pledges and add-ons only for backers receiving _physical rewards_! If you have any questions, please contact us from your BackerKit survey, and thank you all for the support. Excited to get physical backers their goodies!
October 20, 2025 at 11:51 PM
Happy #portfolioday! Our talented artist @synchra.bsky.social created a portfolio of just some of her incredible work for Children of Infinity. www.behance.net/gallery/2359...
Pistol Shrimp Kickstarter - Mandy Draeger
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October 14, 2025 at 9:46 PM
Did you check out our latest update? Lots of work in progress on display for Children of Infinity, especially Melee visuals! We only had room to share a few slices of this longer VFX reel. Audio is still in progress and includes placeholder mouth sounds: get 'em while they're ridiculous! #Godot
October 13, 2025 at 9:27 PM
Milestone 7 update is available for your sensory organs' pleasure. We discuss the plans forward for release, our work on Melee, and our Kickstarter reward manufacturing! www.kickstarter.com/projects/pis...
Update 45: Milestone 7 Update · FREE STARS: Children of Infinity
Humans of Earth! It is that time again, or possibly past that time. No matter: grab your favorite liquid, prepare a good repast, and buckle your eyeballs into their sockets for the thrilling text adve...
www.kickstarter.com
October 9, 2025 at 10:57 PM
We made this! You made this! We can't wait to share it with everyone who backed our Kickstarter for it.

Happy Friday, our usual Big Development Update Post is coming soon.
October 3, 2025 at 6:48 PM

"Haha this rules"
#Godot
September 9, 2025 at 6:21 PM
New video demo up of our UQM1 ship VFX in Melee as a an exclusive for our incredibly attractive Patreon supporters. More to come in our next honkin' (in size, not gooseitude) blog post! www.patreon.com/posts/uqm1-s...
UQM1 Ship VFX Demo (Aug 29, 2025) | Pistol Shrimp
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August 29, 2025 at 6:46 PM
Introducing the Pkunk Good RNG Choir. #soundon #godot
August 25, 2025 at 6:31 PM
The process is complete, and we have emerged.
August 5, 2025 at 10:57 PM
We like @godotengine.org. Dan even got to talk about it here!
How are things going with Godot?

Indie developers flocked to the open-source engine after the Unity runtime fee saga of 2023. Now, the Godot Foundation, Pistol Shrimp, Bytten Studio and Walaber Entertainment explain what has happened since.

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Two years after the Unity controversy, how are things going with Godot?
Two years ago, Unity's missteps prompted a wave of interest in the open-source Godot engine. Here's what happened next.
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July 18, 2025 at 11:40 PM
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I drew and animated this little weirdo!
Our reaction when we get to share new Children of Infinity details.
July 17, 2025 at 7:06 PM
Our reaction when we get to share new Children of Infinity details.
July 17, 2025 at 6:26 PM
Do you like jams? Tunes? Bops? If you haven't read the latest update, be sure to at least check out a little demo of what we're cooking for Free Stars: Children of Infinity. vimeo.com/1101654555
Free Stars: Children of Infinity MS6 Music Showreel
A few of pieces of music for Free Stars: Children of Infinity alongside static images for where they'll be playing. Follow the project on Kickstarter. All…
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July 16, 2025 at 7:16 PM
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Now that @pistolshrimpgames.com has revealed more stuff in their latest dev blog post (www.kickstarter.com/projects/pis...), I can share some of what I've been working on lately. #starcontrol #freestars #uqm
July 16, 2025 at 4:52 PM
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More work for @pistolshrimpgames.com's Children of Infinity. A mysterious ringed gas giant! #freestars #uqm #space #planet #ring
July 16, 2025 at 5:00 PM
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Now It Can Be Told: the big news I had been barely kinda keeping under wraps is finally out.

The big music project I've been working on is the soundtrack to Pistol Shrimp's upcoming videogame, Ur-Quan Masters 2: Children of Infinity!

You can hear a little of it in this link below:
July 16, 2025 at 4:23 PM
Milestone 6 Update is available on Kickstarter! We share where we are with the game, some sneak peeks into the music, details on our VO process, and our plans for what's next. www.kickstarter.com/projects/pis...
Update 44: Milestone 6 Update · FREE STARS: Children of Infinity
“Here comes the summer!” I sing, moments before being torched on the surface of an alien planet by the 1000 degree centigrade sunrise.Speaking of “centigrade,” if you are well versed in counting to te...
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July 16, 2025 at 3:58 PM