Pistol Shrimp Games

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Pistol Shrimp Games
FoundedApril 5, 2022;3 years ago (2022-04-05)
Founders Fred Ford, Ken Ford, Paul Reiche, Dan Gerstein
Website pistolshrimpgames.com

Pistol Shrimp Games is a video game studio created by Fred Ford, Ken Ford, Paul Reiche and Dan Gerstein after leaving Toys for Bob in 2021. [1] The company was started on April 5, 2022. [2]

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History

In 2017, Fred Ford, Paul Reiche, Ken Ford and Dan Gerstein decided to start developing Ghosts of the Precursors , the sequel to The Ur-Quan Masters . [3] [4] Due to disagreements between the trademark owner of Star Control and the ownership of the intellectual property within the games previously sold under the trademark, game development was halted. When a settlement was reached, development continued in the fall of 2020. [5]

The main goal of the company was the creation of Free Stars: Children of Infinity , the sequel to the original Star Control game series. [6] The development started in 2021, with the non-official creation of the company. They could not use the name Star Control for a sequel, because the rights to the name belong to Stardock. [7]

The studio was officially created on April 5, 2022. [2]

In order to create awareness of the franchise's new name, Pistol Shrimp released The Ur-Quan Masters as Free Stars: The Ur-Quan Masters for free on Steam on February 19, 2024. [8]

Pistol Shrimp created an engine called Simple for the development of their new game, taking as basis other game engine known as Godot. [9] [10]

Paul Reiche and Ken Ford left Pistol Shrimp summer 2023. [11]

References

  1. ↑ Sinclair, Brendan (October 3, 2023). "Pistol Shrimp and the importance of owning what you make". Game Industry. Archived from the original on April 29, 2024. Retrieved April 29, 2024.
  2. 1 2 Gerstein, Dan (April 5, 2022). "Announcing Pistol Shrimp Games". Pistol Shrimp. Archived from the original on May 3, 2024. Retrieved May 3, 2024.
  3. ↑ Reiche, Paul. "Our Story". Pistol Shrimp Games.
  4. ↑ Wood, Austin (October 11, 2017). "25 years later, Star Control 2 is getting a direct sequel". PC Gamer. Archived from the original on August 9, 2020. Retrieved May 3, 2024.
  5. ↑ Fred Ford and Paul Reiche III (June 17, 2021). "I Seriously Considered Adding A Cow To This Image". Dogar And Kazon. Archived from the original on November 7, 2021. Retrieved May 3, 2024.
  6. ↑ Chalk, Andy (April 20, 2024). "The long-awaited sequel to The Ur-Quan Masters hits its crowdfunding target in less than four hours, and they're not kidding about that $4.4 million stretch goal". PC Gamer . Archived from the original on November 16, 2024. Retrieved April 29, 2024.
  7. ↑ Hutchinson, Lee (June 12, 2019). "Stardock and Star Control creators settle lawsuits—with mead and honey". ArsTechnica . Archived from the original on December 20, 2019. Retrieved April 29, 2024.
  8. ↑ McWhertor, Michael (February 12, 2024). "PC sci-fi classic Star Control returns as Free Stars: The Ur-Quan Masters". Polygon. Archived from the original on March 29, 2024. Retrieved April 29, 2024.
  9. ↑ Pistol Shrimp. "Simple - A downloadable game engine for Windows". itch.io . Retrieved April 29, 2024.
  10. ↑ Gerstein, Dan (September 20, 2024). "No Longer Waiting for Godot". Pistol Shrimp Games. Archived from the original on November 11, 2024. Retrieved May 10, 2024.
  11. ↑ Gerstein, Dan (Summer 2023). "Bidding Adieu to Paul and Ken". Pistol Shrimp. Archived from the original on September 15, 2023. Retrieved April 29, 2024.
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