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Developer of Free Stars: Children of Infinity, sequel to The Ur-Quan Masters. Demo out NOW! freestarsgame.com | 🎮https://discord.gg/rasVCDmYKp | We are Fred Ford and Dan Gerstein @pebby.net | inquiries: contact (at) pistolshrimpgames (dot) com

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Pistol Shrimp Games - Demo OUT NOW! @pistolshrimpgames.com · 25/09/2026
New build is available on GOG and Steam for the Children of Infinity Combat Demo. No more crashing on MacOS! Direct3D support for devices which don't believe in Vulkan or maybe Klingon! One-time stutters gone! Check the full patch notes here.
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Free Stars: Children of Infinity - Patch Notes 6528 - September 25, 2026 - Steam News
Patch notes for the new build.
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Pistol Shrimp Games - Demo OUT NOW! @pistolshrimpgames.com · 24/09/2026
Did you know that if you leave a Steam review for the Free Stars: Children of Infinity Combat Demo, you will be visited by one of three ghosts before a holiday? We don't pick the ghost or the holiday, but we're sure the Ghost of Groundhog Day's Future will bring blessings! Help us win the algorithm!
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Free Stars: Children of Infinity Combat Demo on Steam
Pilot over thirty unique ships with wild abilities in exciting 1v1 top-down space combat. Strategize your ideal battle roster with the classic ships from The Ur-Quan Masters and all-new characters. Pl...
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Pistol Shrimp Games - Demo OUT NOW! @pistolshrimpgames.com · 23/09/2026
Who would talk to them like this though 😭
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Pistol Shrimp Games - Demo OUT NOW! @pistolshrimpgames.com · 22/09/2026
New build is available on GOG and Steam for the Children of Infinity Combat Demo. We fixed bugs! Your Mac device won't show spooky black shapes anymore (unless it should show spooky black shapes)! Click to read the full suite of notes and thanks everyone for playing and reporting things.
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Free Stars: Children of Infinity - Patch Notes 6506 - September 21, 2026 - Steam News
Patch notes for the new build.
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Shivam Bhatt @shivambhatt.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Supporting Children of Infinity (aka star control 2-2) is honestly an ideological issue now. If you believe in ownership of games that will not disappear at a platform holder's whim, you should support the games that put the players first.
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Pistol Shrimp Games - Demo OUT NOW! @pistolshrimpgames.com · 21/09/2026
A special, free dev diary is on our Patreon for all to enjoy as we celebrate our accomplishments together. 🎉 If you like more behind the scenes thoughts from us, consider supporting us. It all goes to the game and the people making it, and it keeps us from signing contracts with the Druuge.
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Dev Diary: Hell Yeah! | Pistol Shrimp
HELL YEAH! In the culmination of years of work, we successfully released our demo on GOG and Steam just shy of two weeks ago. There is a lot
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Trans Rights Screenshot Generator! @transrightsbot.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
#TransRights #FreeStars
Dialog box from Star Control II with the Utwig saying: "We now don the mask of Trans Rights!"
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Pistol Shrimp Games - Demo OUT NOW! @pistolshrimpgames.com · 14/09/2026
🎮🚨 New stick steering control options on main! 🎮🚨 Drive like a monster with the Dpad or tank controls on the stick, we won't judge you. This and more awaits you. Check out the patch notes for our latest update for the demo on GOG and Steam.
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Free Stars: Children of Infinity - Patch Notes 6484 - September 14, 2026 - Steam News
Patch notes for the new build.
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Paul Watson 🌍 @paulmwatson.com · 09/09/2026
From the makers of the ✨Ur-Quan Masters, submit or die! 👾
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Pistol Shrimp Games - Demo OUT NOW! @pistolshrimpgames.com · 12/09/2026
If you're playing the demo and would like to help test some NEW and EXCITING features, including the much-asked-for steering configuration on controllers, you can switch over to the public "test" branch on Steam and GOG! We'd love your feedback. Read more here: store.steampowered.com/news/app/285...
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Free Stars: Children of Infinity - Demo Update: Test Patch - September 11, 2026 - Steam News
Patch notes and a new build are available on the test branch.
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solon in the stacks @chorby.org · 11/09/2026
Do you remember Star Control and The Ur-Quan Masters? Well, I don't! Welcome to GAMES HISTORY NIGHT: Prof. @soozwave.bsky.social is our guest-lecturer to take me through how this series came together before showing me the demo for @pistolshrimpgames.com's new Children of Infinity twitch.tv/chorbySP
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Sooz EQ | Free Stars: Battles In The Beyond demo out now @soozwave.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Starting soon at Twitch.tv/ChorbySP : never heard of this before? learn about a brief history of Free Stars, and then watch us beat the piss out of each others' spaceships to a soundtrack provided by yours truly.
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Pistol Shrimp Games - Demo OUT NOW! @pistolshrimpgames.com · 10/09/2026
Did you know how much cool tech makes our demo go? The game players see is all running from Godot, but we have a custom gdExtension which provides access to Simple, which is Fred's totally custom, multiplayer, gameplay building solution that provides serverless, peer-to-peer networking.
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Free Stars: Children of Infinity Combat Demo on Steam
Pilot over thirty unique ships with wild abilities in exciting 1v1 top-down space combat. Strategize your ideal battle roster with the classic ships from The Ur-Quan Masters and all-new characters. Pl...
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Freya🪻 @flarebeams.northsky.social · 10/09/2026
Best thing today in videogames is the release of the Free Stars: Children of Infinity combat demo
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effete smut peddler @mistcontinent.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
SEQUEL TO THE UR-QUAN MASTERS COMING OUT THIS IS NOT A DRILL
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Pistol Shrimp Games - Demo OUT NOW! @pistolshrimpgames.com · 09/09/2026
<making things to standards> #gamedev
Spiderman pointing at spiderman meme but the righthand side spiderman is upside-down in a terrible photoshop. Text on each spiderman reads "invert y axis". The righthand one's text is also upside down. Spiderman spiderman spiderman.
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Pistol Shrimp Games - Demo OUT NOW! @pistolshrimpgames.com · 09/09/2026
We are aware that many of our players wish to steer their ships with the joystick in the "classic" style. We are working on supporting this feature for the next build, but enabling it will play a short clip of someone who isn't used to it crying while trying to play The Ur-Quan Masters. Enjoy!
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Pistol Shrimp Games - Demo OUT NOW! @pistolshrimpgames.com · 09/09/2026
Top reasons to check out our free combat demo: 1) frantic 1v1 top-down combat with 38 totally unique spaceships 2) play solo, local multiplayer, online, or on LAN 3) runs on windows, mac, and linux 4) be/shoot aliens from The Ur-Quan Masters & Children of Infinity 5) a bird will insult you in-game
A screenshot from the Free Stars: Children of Infinity Combat Demo. an Akashaq ship which looks like a cat is pouncing across the screen while an Androsynth ship in blazer form is flying past it
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🐔 Brian Bucklew 🐔 ₑͤ>∿<ₑͤ ∞🌮 @unormal.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
this is sc2 melee baby, back in the flesh
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Liam @ GamingOnLinux @gamingonlinux.com · 09/09/2026
The Ur-Quan Masters sequel 'Free Stars: Children of Infinity' gets a Combat Demo #NativeLinux
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The Ur-Quan Masters sequel 'Free Stars: Children of Infinity' gets a Combat Demo
The upcoming The Ur-Quan Masters (based on Star Control II) sequel Free Stars: Children of Infinity has a first Combat Demo now available.
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spoonshiro @spoonshiro.com · 09/09/2026
Psychic toucans who power their weapons by taunting their enemies? Fun. And hilarious!
The Pkunk from Star Control 2
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Badchop, Experienced Glucoboy @badchop.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Played a round of the Free Stars combat demo and yeah, play it, it's rad. That said, the Druuge ship on the easiest difficulty is some kind of expert sniper/artilleryman or I picked the WORST matchups against it (just as likely the latter, lol) Been a minute since I rolled out a Chenjesu ship!
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Phav Nosnibor @phavnosnibor.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Dear gawd, this is fun. I grew up with the two original Star Control games and the Orz Nemesis is exactly as much fun as I remember. www.gog.com/en/game/free...
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Free Stars: Children of Infinity Combat Demo | GOG.com
The full game, Free Stars: Children of Infinity, is coming soon and can be wishlisted her
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Meatba'al @vance.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
WAKE UP DICKHEADS, THE MOST IMPORTANT DEMO OF YOUR LIFE JUST RELEASED
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deaconobvious.bsky.social @deaconobvious.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Do you want to see our *surprising* *toys*? No! Do not!
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Sooz EQ | Free Stars: Battles In The Beyond demo out now @soozwave.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
The button has been pushed, it's time. (did I mention I made a lot of of the music you'll hear in the demo? ... I did? oh. hmm. quite a few times, apparently. well. ok.)
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Joe Fulgham @joefulgham.com · 08/09/2026
Star Control 2 was one of the finest space adventures ever made. UQM has kept a free playable version going for decades, and now it's getting a modern update. Definitely giving this a go, and looking forward to the full version
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Stone @stonegrasp.com · 08/09/2026
It's live!!!! Closer and closer we get to the new game being released. Much excitement!!
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James Cunningham @jamesac68.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Free Stars (formerly Star Control) combat demo is out right now, the full 2-player component of ship-to-ship combat of the classic game. All I need is a couple hundred more hours and I've got all of it covered. store.steampowered.com/app/4378070/...
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Free Stars: Children of Infinity Combat Demo on Steam
Pilot over thirty unique ships with wild abilities in exciting 1v1 top-down space combat. Strategize your ideal battle roster with the classic ships from The Ur-Quan Masters and all-new characters. Pl...
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Kl⚙️kwurk @klokwurk.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Juffo-Wup fills in my fibres and I grow turgid. Violent action ensues.
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Ars Technica @arstechnica.com · 08/09/2026
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The official sequel to The Ur-Quan Masters releases its free demo today
Blast your opponents in 1v1 arcade space battles like it's 1992 all over again.
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Pistol Shrimp Games - Demo OUT NOW! @pistolshrimpgames.com · 08/09/2026
You can play the Free Stars: Children of Infinity Demo RIGHT NOW on Steam too! store.steampowered.com/app/4378070/...
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Free Stars: Children of Infinity Combat Demo on Steam
Pilot over thirty unique ships with wild abilities in exciting 1v1 top-down space combat. Strategize your ideal battle roster with the classic ships from The Ur-Quan Masters and all-new characters. Pl...
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Pistol Shrimp Games - Demo OUT NOW! @pistolshrimpgames.com · 08/09/2026
You can play the Free Stars: Children of Infinity demo RIGHT NOW on GOG! www.gog.com/en/game/free...
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Free Stars: Children of Infinity Combat Demo | GOG.com
The full game, Free Stars: Children of Infinity, is coming soon and can be wishlisted her
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Pistol Shrimp Games - Demo OUT NOW! @pistolshrimpgames.com · 08/09/2026
Go! Go! Go! Join and watch us press a button to release our demo! www.twitch.tv/pebby/
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Free Stars: Children of Infinity Development | Quiet Stream | Preparing for Melee Demo Release | Streaming free stars: children of infinity.
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Pistol Shrimp Games - Demo OUT NOW! @pistolshrimpgames.com · 07/09/2026
Melnorme... Trader? Meet Chupp Clipper. They have a bargain for you. They take your stuff in exchange for your life. No? Wrong choice! Play these ships and 36 more in the Free Stars: Children of Infinity Combat Demo, releasing on GOG and Steam TOMORROW!
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Pistol Shrimp Games - Demo OUT NOW! @pistolshrimpgames.com · 07/09/2026
The Crimson Corporation has brought to our attention that the Nintendo Direct has been scheduled on top of the much more important launch of our demo tomorrow. To meet our KPI-or-die metrics, they have graciously provided us with resources to do our OWN direct presentation. Be there!
A flyer made by someone with a passion for graphic design. It reads: free stars children of infinity combat demo launch party. Featuring: dark lord kazon [picture the ilwrath from the ur-quan masters], rocket (cockatiel) [picture of a cockatiel], pressing this button [a green button which reads "release demo"], and guy who's played zelda. The bottom section says it's at 9am PDT on twitch.tv/pebby
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Sean Jordan | Sharing Great Games You Probably Never Played! @greatestgames.substack.com · 06/09/2026
Ooh! I'm a backer on this one. Children of Infinity is the true successor to Star Control II: The Ur-Quan Masters, made by many of the original devs!
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Sasha's Retrobytes 🏳️‍⚧️ @sharkabytes.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
I can't recommend playing Star Control II enough; it's an incredible space adventure that's both humorous and harrowing in places. The Ur-Quan Masters source port from the early 2000s is available on Steam these days and can still be found standalone with its original Star Control name.
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Free Stars: The Ur-Quan Masters on Steam
Experience the award-winning space saga. Travel to hyperspace, discover alien worlds, and meet an eclectic cast of characters. Find out what happened after the Ur-Quan invasion. And if the war still r...
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Pistol Shrimp Games - Demo OUT NOW! @pistolshrimpgames.com · 06/09/2026
Fly me to the moon... or at least the nearest asteroid. Show Juffo-Wup who's boss in Children of Infinity, demo releasing Tuesday! #godot #mycon #juffowup #fibers #turgid
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Pistol Shrimp Games - Demo OUT NOW! @pistolshrimpgames.com · 04/09/2026
Where were these aliens when humanity needed to stop the Kohr-Ah in The Ur-Quan Masters?! 😎Style on them😎with new ships in the Children of Infinity Combat Demo, releasing Sep 8th! #godot #gamedev #indiegames
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Sooz EQ | Free Stars: Battles In The Beyond demo out now @soozwave.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
if you're like me, you spent a lot of time in "the old game" watching the computer simulate two entire fleets in combat (or as I like to call it, "Fantasy Frungy"). play this!!
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Nadia Oxford @nadiaoxford.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
“SURPRISE AND TERROR!”
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Pistol Shrimp Games - Demo OUT NOW! @pistolshrimpgames.com · 03/09/2026
It’s true. You can get the demo and the game on GOG. Support games preservation. Download it and put it on a USB stick because you can. What you want to do with your software is between you and Dogar and Kazon.
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Pistol Shrimp Games - Demo OUT NOW! @pistolshrimpgames.com · 02/09/2026
The Free Stars: Children of Infinity Combat Demo launches on September 8th at 9am PDT. If you missed our Kickstarter, we're re-opening physical pledges for a limited time (or until we run out of stuff!). Get the deets here: www.kickstarter.com/projects/pis...
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Update 53: Free Stars: Children of Infinity Combat Demo Releases on September 8th · FREE STARS: Children of Infinity
The Free Stars: Children of Infinity Combat Demo is releasing on Steam and GOG on September 8th at 9am PDT. You’ll be able to play our remade Super Melee experience from Children of Infinity with 38 t...
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Klanky @k1anky.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Free Stars: Children of Infinity Combat Demo Trailer. Launch fighters! youtu.be/77mN4GV2hxE
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Free Stars: Children of Infinity Combat Demo Trailer
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Pistol Shrimp Games - Demo OUT NOW! @pistolshrimpgames.com · 25/08/2026
An exclusive alumni rat!? Is this @dittmanrat.bsky.social's doing?
An email preview from GDC Festival of Gaming. Subtitle "Dan,  your exclusive alumni rat..."
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Josh Mayfield @bean525.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
I am REALLY excited for @pistolshrimpgames.com to release the Free Stars Melee Demo. I hope they can get over their Steam certification troubles. I used to play Super Melee in Star Control II on my 3DO for hours on end, back in the day.
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Pistol Shrimp Games - Demo OUT NOW! @pistolshrimpgames.com · 19/08/2026
We need your help desperately. Does ANYONE have a human contact at Valve? We have been trying to pass Steam's submission for our demo. After rejections #1 and #2 their ask is ambiguous and—more importantly—impossible for us to act upon (changes they want are on their side). Can anyone help out?
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Eternal Skies TCG RPG @eternalskies.neocities.org · 15/08/2026
I'm not being very productive, which could be due to sleep or thyroid. But what I can do is dick around on social media. So let's share again the starter packs I made of game devs who refuse to use gen AI in any capacity. Here you go: go.bsky.app/6DRdowf go.bsky.app/AS5R4p7 go.bsky.app/7K7JDCJ
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