Just another day doing important story research.

Never knew pins and stickers could excite me this much at my age 🚀 Can’t wait to play the game! Thanks for the love and care that went into these props and even the packaging, @pistolshrimpgames.com ❤️

Did you know you can play Children of Infinity on the couch with a controller?! Unfortunately the Cyborg opponent does not stop shooting while you take a blurry photo. #screenshotsaturday

New Patreon exclusive post with an exciting ~50 minute video playtesting our Melee Demo 1v1 between Dan and Zach networked across the United States. We break down what we learned and our next steps. www.patreon.com/posts/1v1-me...

But the best physical items are the ship pins! They are so detailed!

One of the things I am most excited about is the release of Free Stars: Children of Infinity game, the longcoming sequel to the amazing The Ur-Quan Masters (which you may have known as Star Control II) Space exploration! ship combat! resource management! hilarious dialog! freestarsgame.com

YESSSS I received my Star Control/Ur-Quan Masters/Free Stars Kickstarter goodies from @pistolshrimpgames.com! Lots of fun doodads, but the important thing is my new starship license. Turns out, bribing Alliance officers still works! Now I gotta find a place to park my spaceship...

Got my very cool Kickstarter merch for @pistolshrimpgames.com's Free Stars: Children of Infinity (long awaited sequel to the famous classic, formerly Star Control II, now renamed Free Stars: The Ur-Quan Masters). Looking forward to the game when it comes out!

Very small update regarding shipping our physical Kickstarter rewards available on Kickstarter, with special notes for our admittedly pretty large group of international backers! www.kickstarter.com/projects/pis...

All of our domestic backers have had their Kickstarter physical rewards shipped as of today. Even the sickos with six sticker sheets!!! Please send photos of what you’re doing with them (or any rewards). International folks next. We only have so much space in our mailroom (Dan’s building lobby).

Do you want some great music by our composer for Children of Infinity?! Of course you do!! Check out their awesome library for Bandcamp Friday.

Over five hundred Collectors Complete Editions of our physical Kickstarter rewards ready to ship out. This represents all of our domestic backers who pledged at this tier and got no add-ons, and it means about half of our backers shipments are done.

New Patreon only mini-demo showing how GOG players can use the Galaxy client to play Free Stars: Children of Infinity with their friends. www.patreon.com/posts/mini-d...

New Patreon-only post with another mini feature demo for our Steam-based networking UX, which came to life... about an hour ago! www.patreon.com/posts/148889...

PRIORITY OVERRIDE. NEW BEHAVIOR DICTATED. We need a moment from you. This coming Tuesday, Jan 20th, Americans are staging a walk-out, and Pistol Shrimp is participating. www.freeameri.ca It would mean the world if you can attend. 1/🧵

Lessons in packaging materials: your tolerance still isn't tolerant enough, and it's hard to predict the size of something that doesn't exist yet. We don't want them bent, so hundreds of new shipping envelopes are now on their way! 🥳

The Star Maps are in!! This means _all_ of our Kickstarter backers can start getting their physical rewards. Our domestic, non-map-receiving backers have had their rewards shipped, and now we can move on to the rest.

300 packages going out to our backers tomorrow! Starting off the new year with some very specific ASMR.

Surprise stream! Join Dan as he packs hundreds of envelopes with Kickstarter rewards tonight. twitch.tv/pebby

Happy #screenshotsaturday, let's celebrate all of our favorite placeholders from 2025. Do you like Reptile Captain Placeholder1, or Slayer Captain Placeholder1? Maybe you like the radar texture cockatiel?! Or white dot! White dot is pretty cool. #godot

Attention, Earthlings! See what we're wrapping up 2025 with in our Milestone 8 Update. We cover work for our standalone melee release, Kickstarter reward delivery, and plans for next year. www.kickstarter.com/projects/pis...

New post and questions just for Patreon subscribers. How do you want to see us handle "sneak peeks" when the peeks could be spoilers?

Surprise and terror!!

We finally know what happened to the Androsynth!

Shipping update just shared on Kickstarter for all of our backers receiving physical rewards! www.kickstarter.com/projects/pis...

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

New Mini-Demo and tech report just for Patreon folks: representing player UI focus across the network. www.patreon.com/posts/mini-d...

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.

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!

Happy Halloween! Hope we get some trick or treaters tonight.

This is what 2,000 Lorebooks look like.

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!

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...

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

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...

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.

<game developer implementing pitch modulation for a minigun weapon for the 1000th time> "Haha this rules" #Godot

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...

Introducing the Pkunk Good RNG Choir. #soundon #godot

The process is complete, and we have emerged.

We like @godotengine.org. Dan even got to talk about it here!

I drew and animated this little weirdo!

Our reaction when we get to share new Children of Infinity details.

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

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

More work for @pistolshrimpgames.com's Children of Infinity. A mysterious ringed gas giant! #freestars #uqm #space #planet #ring

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:

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...

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