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| Founded | April 5, 2022; 2 years ago (2022-04-05) |
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| Founders | Fred Ford, Ken Ford, Paul Reiche, Dan Gerstein |
| Website | pistolshrimpgames |
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. The company was started on April 5, 2022.
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. 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.
The main goal of the company was the creation of Free Stars: Children of Infinity, the sequel to the original Star Control game series. The development started in 2021, with the non-offical creation of the company. They could not use the name Star Control for a sequel, because the rights to the name belong to Stardock.
The studio was offically created on April 5, 2022.
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.
Pistol Shrimp created an engine called Simple for the development of their new game, taking as basis other game engine known as Godot.
Paul Reiche and Ken Ford left Pistol Shrimp summer 2023.
References
- Sinclair, Brendan (October 3, 2023). "Pistol Shrimp and the importance of owning what you make". Game Industry. Retrieved April 29, 2024.
- ^ Gerstein, Dan (April 5, 2022). "Announcing Pistol Shrimp Games". Pistol Shrimp.
- Reiche, Paul. "Our Story". Pistol Shrimp Games.
- Wood, Austin (October 11, 2017). "25 years later, Star Control 2 is getting a direct sequel". PC Gamer.
- Fred Ford and Paul Reiche III (June 17, 2021). "I Seriously Considered Adding A Cow To This Image". Dogar And Kazon.
- 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. Retrieved April 29, 2024.
- Hutchinson, Lee (June 12, 2019). "Stardock and Star Control creators settle lawsuits—with mead and honey". ArsTechnica. Retrieved April 29, 2024.
- McWhertor, Michael (February 12, 2024). "PC sci-fi classic Star Control returns as Free Stars: The Ur-Quan Masters". Polygon. Retrieved April 29, 2024.
- Pistol Shrimp. "Simple - A downloadable game engine for Windows". itch.io. Retrieved April 29, 2024.
- Gerstein, Dan (September 20, 2024). "No Longer Waiting for Godot". Pistol Shrimp Games.
- Gerstein, Dan (Summer 2023). "Bidding Adieu to Paul and Ken". Pistol Shrimp. Retrieved April 29, 2024.
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