“Ask, and you shall receive!”
After thirty years, Pistol Shrimp Games’ founders Paul Reiche III and Fred Ford treated the dedicated fanbase of the sci-fi cult classic The Ur-Quan Masters (referred to by many as “one of the greatest games of all time”) with the opportunity to help make the long-awaited sequel a reality. And so they have.
Pistol Shrimp Games’ Kickstarter campaign to fund the development of Free Stars: Children of Infinity has been a resounding success. Within three hours of its launch, the $100,000 goal was achieved, allowing the team to finally continue the classic space saga that inspired countless creators, including the visionaries behind Mass Effect, No Man’s Sky, and Stellaris.
Presently, the campaign has surpassed $430,000, achieving 10 of its 14 stretch goals, including enhanced super melee, more ships, Mac and Linux releases, additional language support, and more. Additional stretch goals to be achieved include bonus languages, console ports, English voice-over, and the $4.4 million ultimate goal of making the game completely open source to the community.
Tomorrow at 11 AM PDT, Pistol Shrimp Games will host a developer stream on its Twitch channel to showcase Free Stars: Children of Infinity’s hyperspace gameplay: https://www.twitch.tv/pebby.
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Fred Ford explained, “We’re trying to make something that beckons to the old fans as kind of a comfort food for them, but that is hopefully updated enough for modern sensibilities that new fans will latch onto it as well.” He added, “…we can build the universe, but we need it to look pretty, we need it to sound good, we need creatures that are fun to look at and fun to play with. So that’s kind of what the Kickstarter is for. And yeah, that $100,000 initial goal wasn’t what it cost us to get here, but what we thought we needed to finish it to a baseline quality. The stretch goals – hopefully when they’re met, if they’re met – will bring it even higher.”
The Kickstarter campaign for Free Stars: Children of Infinity is live until May 17. For more information about the game, go to https://freestarsgame.com/kickstarter.
Fans can now wishlist Free Stars: Children of Infinity on Steam here: https://store.steampowered.com/app/2853290/Free_Stars_Children_of_Infinity.
The previous entry in the series, Free Stars: The Ur-Quan Masters®, was released for free on Steam in February 2024.
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