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Faster Than Light (FTL)
alistically do to avert disaster. Faster than Light is a game that gives you your own starship and crew. You are given full (and I really mean full) control over every ship system. You don’t actually control the ship directly, but take on the role of captain, giving orders via a mouse click dictatorship. Those classic Star Trek episodes where power is redirected from the engines to the shields? You can do that! From weapons to shields, from doors to scanners, every system can be given more power or less with a simple mouse click, and each can be upgraded using the games scrap system as currency. Various alien races with their own alliances and abilities add some variety to proceedings, and the ability to name your crew before you start lends itself to awesome tales of your best friend suffocating when they accidentally went into an airlock and your
Creators: Matthew Davis & Justin Ma Game Site: ftlgame Available: On Steam for PC or Mac
FTL is a spaceship simulation roguelike-like. Its aim is to recreate the atmosphere of running a spaceship exploring the galaxy (like Firefly/Star Trek/BSG etc.) In any given episode of those classic shows, the captain is always yelling “Reroute power to shields!” or giving commands to the engineer now that their Warp Core is on fire. We wanted that experience, as opposed to the “dog fighting in space” that most videogames focus on. We wanted a game where we had to manage the crew, fix the engines, reroute power to shields, target the enemy life support, ??????????????????????????????????????????????????????????()???????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????Q?????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????()Q???????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????Q????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????q9?? ????t????????????????????????????1?????????????)5????????Q???M??Êe?M?????((??((0