{"id":7693,"date":"2012-09-14T14:37:26","date_gmt":"2012-09-14T18:37:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.spacesector.com\/blog\/?p=7693"},"modified":"2014-08-29T12:56:36","modified_gmt":"2014-08-29T16:56:36","slug":"ftl-spaceship-simulation-with-strategic-combat-released","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.spacesector.com\/blog\/2012\/09\/ftl-spaceship-simulation-with-strategic-combat-released\/","title":{"rendered":"FTL: Spaceship Simulation with Strategic Combat Released"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a  href=\"https:\/\/www.spacesector.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/FTL.jpg\" class=\"thickbox no_icon\" title=\"FTL - Faster Than Light | Spaceship simulation\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-7694\" title=\"FTL - Faster Than Light | Spaceship simulation\" src=\"https:\/\/www.spacesector.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/FTL.jpg\" alt=\"FTL - Faster Than Light\" width=\"600\" height=\"337\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.spacesector.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/FTL.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.spacesector.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/FTL-300x168.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a  title=\"Faster Than Light game\" href=\"http:\/\/www.ftlgame.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">FTL<\/a>\u00a0(Faster than Light) generated a lot of buzz some months ago from a surprising <a  href=\"http:\/\/www.kickstarter.com\/projects\/64409699\/ftl-faster-than-light\/\" target=\"_blank\">kickstarter<\/a> reception which caught the game devs completely by surprise.<\/p>\n<p>FTL is a spaceship simulation game that features elements of exploration, discovery, spaceship management and real-time strategic combat (pausable real-time). FTL\u00a0went to\u00a0Kickstarter with a pledge\u00a0objective of $10.000, but was able to generate 20 times more than that! ($200.000).<\/p>\n<p>FTL is a lot about adventure but also about strategy as the\u00a0players need to make many decisions in reaction to certain text-based events. It\u2019s like in the Star Trek series where the crew was always facing unpredictable dangers and needed to react swiftly and cleverly to solve them. In a way it&#8217;s about you in the skin of a captain or personifying\u00a0a spaceship crew deciding what needs to be done to deal with\u00a0circumstances.<\/p>\n<p>FTL is probably one of the first true Kickstarter success cases, in which concerns video games, since it is one of the first to release to the public while <a  href=\"http:\/\/penny-arcade.com\/report\/editorial-article\/two-men-200000-and-a-successful-kickstarter-how-ftl-did-everything-right\" target=\"_blank\">keeping the original schedule<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>FTL released today and is now available for Windows, Mac and Linux. You can get the game on <a  href=\"http:\/\/www.gog.com\/en\/gamecard\/faster_than_light?pp=3fcfb99ec010d4a8ba364f43169465d91ca39ada\" target=\"_blank\">GOG<\/a>\u00a0(Win),\u00a0<a  href=\"http:\/\/store.steampowered.com\/app\/212680\/\" target=\"_blank\">Steam<\/a>\u00a0(Win and Mac)\u00a0and on the dev&#8217;s <a  href=\"http:\/\/www.ftlgame.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">web page<\/a> itself (Win, Mac and Linux) if you&#8217;re interested in a DRM-free version (redeemable on Steam).<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;re working on this one also folks, so, stop by in a week or two to know more about this promising spaceship simulation adventure. In the mean time there are loads of <a  href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/results?search_query=ftl\" target=\"_blank\">videos available<\/a> for you to check out so that you know a bit more about FTL.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>FTL is a spaceship simulation game that features elements of exploration, discovery, spaceship management and real-time strategic combat, and it released today.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1668,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"registered_only","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[74],"tags":[89,1117,778,726,817,278,117,231,788,1100],"class_list":["post-7693","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-announcements-and-rumors","tag-exploration","tag-ftl-faster-than-light","tag-indie","tag-kickstarter","tag-linux","tag-mac","tag-pc-game","tag-real-time-strategy","tag-space-sim","tag-spaceship-management"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spacesector.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7693","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spacesector.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spacesector.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spacesector.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1668"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spacesector.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7693"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.spacesector.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7693\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spacesector.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7693"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spacesector.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7693"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spacesector.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7693"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}