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Ben Prunty, the music composer who worked with Subset Games on the critically acclaimed FTL: Faster Than Light, says that he deliberately avoided using Star Wars and Star Trek as influences when he created the soundtrack.
The music creator told Rock, Paper, Shotgun, as part of a bigger interview related to indie gam... |
22 January 2013
22:31 GMT |
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FTL: Faster Than Light, a game developed by the Subset Games studio in which the players get to experience what's like to command a starship, is now available on Steam for Linux with a generous discount.Steam for Linux is still in Beta, but it doesn't mean that uses can't benefit from Valve's deal... |
12 January 2013
12:05 GMT |
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Space-based adventure game FTL: Faster Than Light is the Weekend Deal on digital distribution service Steam, which means that players can get the title for 50 percent of its normal price.
Gamers need to pay just 4.99 dollars or Euro in order to get access to one of the best indie-made games of 2012.
The deal is onl... |
10 January 2013
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The Independent Games Festival has announced the nominees and the honorable mentions for this year’s series of awards linked to the ever growing and more successful indie genre, which will be given to winners during a ceremony that will take place on March 27 in San Francisco.The full list of games selected for... |
8 January 2013
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Faster Than Light, or FTL, is a space exploration and strategy game that makes the player feel like the captain of a real starship. You can buy it now on Steam for Linux with a 25% discount.Faster Than Light is a “spaceship simulation rogue-like,” which has practically become a genre since the game's... |
29 December 2012
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It’s hard to know exactly what “indie” means these days, as video games like Minecraft have managed to sell more than established core franchises, on both the Xbox 360 and the PC. Meanwhile, THQ feels that it makes sense to launch a Humble Bundle of its own. But FTL: Faster Than Light, the game fro... |
18 December 2012
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There are many ways for a game to fail: bugs at launch, mechanics that don’t work, graphics that don’t attract players, horrible characters, no story.But it’s hard for a title to completely disappoint as long as it has a strong core concept around which the entire experience is built and this year, ... |
14 December 2012
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Developer Subset Games and Valve are making FTL: Faster Than Light available on Steam with a 40 percent price cut until Monday, December 10 at 10 AM Pacific Standard Time, which means that players can get it for 5.99 dollars or Euro.
FTL might just be the best indie title of the year, a roguelike that takes players ... |
6 December 2012
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Faster Than Light, or FTL, is a space exploration and strategy game that makes the player feel like the captain of a real starship.
Faster Than Light is a “spaceship simulation rogue-like,” which has practically become a genre since the game's release.
FTL is the first game to gather enough funds through... |
28 November 2012
12:00 GMT |
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Matthew Davis, one of the developers at Subset Games who created FTL, believes that the pressure, associated with public deadlines for his indie project, including competitions like Indiecade or the Independent Games Festival, was one of the reasons behind the quality of the final experience.
The developer says, &ld... |
22 November 2012
22:41 GMT |
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FTL is one of the most interesting video games I’ve played all year, a roguelike created by Subset Games after getting funding via Kickstarter, and it’s a game that shows how easy it is to create complex emotions in a video game and what kind of an impact it can have on the way a player approaches it.
FTL give... |
20 October 2012
13:41 GMT |
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This week we have two full Softpedia reviews for you to feast upon: one for Torchlight 2, the new action role-playing game from Runic Games which gives Diablo III a run for its money, and another for FIFA 13, the new football simulation from EA Sports that’s adding a whole new level of unpredictability to the g... |
7 October 2012
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Andrei Dumitrescu: There’s real world football to watch this weekend in the Premier League and there’s virtual football to play in FIFA 13, the game that seems set to dominate my gaming weekend once more with its improved mechanics and its constant unpredictability. I am deep in the first season of my Li... |
5 October 2012
16:41 GMT |
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Chet Faliszek, one of the Valve leaders, has told VG247 that he expects quite a few of the video games that are funded via crowd-funding service Kickstarter never to launch, which might create a problem for developers who plan to use the same funding opportunities at a later date.
He said, “I’ve funded a... |
1 October 2012
07:32 GMT |
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With the return of my colleague Andrei Dobra to game playing duties we have two full Softepdia reviews to deliver this week: one for the highly expected Borderlands 2, the stylish shooter from developer Gearbox and publisher 2K Games, and one for Shad’O, a tower defense title preoccupied with the issues of memo... |
30 September 2012
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Andrei Dumitrescu: FIFA 13 was finally launched this week (I first got to play the game during E3 2012, back in June) and that means that I plan to spend most of my weekend playing the new football simulation from EA Sports, probing its nooks and crannies to see exactly how different it is from its predecessor.
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28 September 2012
16:21 GMT |
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This week’s review is for FTL, a space-based rogue-like created by Subset Games, which manages to combine superb and tense ship-to-ship battles with some really interesting long-term resource management choices.
We also have two Weekend Reading pieces: one about the difference between delivering a photorealist video... |
23 September 2012
03:51 GMT |
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Andrei Dumitrescu: Autumn is upon us already, which means that high-profile video games like Borderlands 2 and Pro Evolution Soccer 2013 are launching left and right and a gamer’s time is at a premium.But I plan to use my weekend to play as much FTL as I can and try and record every one of the game sessions som... |
21 September 2012
17:41 GMT |
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A modder called MattsterT has added both the Enterprise 1701-A of Star Trek fame and the Serenity ship seen in Firefly to FTL, the space-based rogue-like from SubSet Games. The two mods can be downloaded here and here and the links also include information on how to back up the initial install of FTL and on how to p... |
21 September 2012
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Jump. After the initial confusing feeling generated by hyperspace, the trusty crew gets back to their stations and the systems of the valiant ship Softpedia hum with energy ready for any surprise that the universe can spring.
Out of the meteor cloud a ship appears, quickly revealing itself to be part of the Rebel fl... |
19 September 2012
09:41 GMT |
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FTL is a hard, heartbreaking video game that I sometimes hate with all my being and still cannot stop from playing.The development team at Subset Games has created a game that’s very different from anything else that the gaming industry has produced lately, a mix between the traditional roguelike concept, a num... |
17 September 2012
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