If you’re reading this and haven’t played The Ur-Quan Masters, first… please tell us how you found us. Second, don’t worry. Everyone on Earth will be able to play Free Stars: The Ur-Quan Masters on Steam next week starting Monday, February 19th.

We’re releasing on Steam so more people get to play and experience the fun of Free Stars: The Ur-Quan Masters, and we just need you to help us get the word out. A few suggestions:

Share the Steam page anywhere and everywhere you can. Social media, antisocial media, awkward family dinners, your local newspaper, a propeller plane towing a banner, or one of those Super Bowl blimp things with an advertisement on it. We’re not picky!
Stream the game on Twitch under The Ur-Quan Masters category, or convince your favorite streamer to play, and help us show the game to more people! If you are streaming on launch week, tag us on Twitter and we’ll share it with our communities as well and maybe even drop in to watch.

For this mission to succeed, we will need awesome strength, both in our flagship as well as the assistance of powerful, new allies. Help us find them! The bigger the fleet we bring in to join the Alliance of Free Stars, the more our ongoing work on the forthcoming sequel will be a success. We cannot win the fight alone, Captain. We will need allies.

Channel 44 on YouTube

Speaking of growing our fleet, we’re also excited to announce a video podcast series entitled Channel 44, where we talk with other game developers who graciously spare some of their time to talk with us about their love of The Ur-Quan Masters, game development, and anything else we were excited about. We will be posting it regularly on YouTube and distributing in audio form through the Pistol Shrimp Podcast.

Here’s the schedule of our first few discussions, with more to come too:

February 13: Tim Cain (Fallout, Arcanum, The Outer Worlds)
February 20: Ken Levine from Ghost Story Games (BioShock, System Shock 2)
February 27: Chris Remo from Campo Santo (Firewatch, Half-Life: Alyx)
March 5: Mark Darrah (Mass Effect, Dragon Age, Baldur’s Gate)
March 11: Henrik Fåhraeus from Paradox Interactive (Stellaris, Crusader Kings)

Our Patreon supporters will receive early access links to enjoy the entire bundle — ad-free — tomorrow!

We hope you enjoy learning more about us and about other game developers who were part of making some of the games we enjoyed too. At Pistol Shrimp, we believe making games with our community is one of our greatest strengths. With no shortage of news on how many game developers are struggling, the world needs more of what we’re doing together. Help us make a success story together for the Free Stars universe, and we can ensure there will be more successes to come.

Join us on Reddit, Patreon, and Discord to be a part of the community and let us know what you think.