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Justin Ma
''FTL: Faster Than Light'' is a roguelike game created by indie developer Subset Games, which was released for Windows, MacOS, and Linux in September 2012. In the game, the player controls the crew of a single spacecraft, holding critical information to be delivered to an allied fleet, while being pursued by a large rebel fleet. The player must guide the spacecraft through eight sectors, each with planetary systems and events procedurally generated in a roguelike fashion, while facing rebel and other hostile forces, recruiting new crew, and outfitting and upgrading their ship. Combat takes place in pausable real time, and if the ship is destroyed or all of its crew lost, the game ends, forcing the player to restart with a new ship. The concept for ''FTL'' was based on tabletop board games and other non-strategic space combat video games that required the player to manage an array of a ship's functions. The initial development by the two-person Subset Games was self-funded, and g ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ben Prunty
Ben Prunty is an American composer, best known for his work on the 2012 video game, '' FTL: Faster Than Light''. Personal life Prunty grew up in Scarborough, Maine, but now lives in the San Francisco Bay Area. He played in his high school band, and was always interested in composing music using computers. He attended the New England School of Communications for audio engineering before composing the FTL soundtrack. He also grew up playing video games and recalls thinking making music for them would be the "coolest job ever". He later moved to California in hopes of getting into the video game industry, but found work at Google as a datacenter technician and other jobs until receiving the opportunity to make the FTL soundtrack. Works Prunty's first notable work was the soundtrack for the 2012 real-time strategy indie game '' FTL: Faster Than Light''. These are his projects in order: * 2012, '' FTL: Faster Than Light''. * 2015, '' Gravity Ghost'' * 2015, '' Dead Secret'' * 2017 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Faster-than-light
Faster-than-light (superluminal or supercausal) travel and communication are the conjectural propagation of matter or information faster than the speed of light in vacuum (). The special theory of relativity implies that only particles with zero rest mass (i.e., photons) may travel ''at'' the speed of light, and that nothing may travel faster. Particles whose speed exceeds that of light ( tachyons) have been hypothesized, but their existence would violate causality and would imply time travel. The scientific consensus is that they do not exist. According to all observations and current scientific theories, matter travels at slower-than-light (subluminal) speed with respect to the locally distorted spacetime region. Speculative faster-than-light concepts include the Alcubierre drive, Krasnikov tubes, traversable wormholes, and quantum tunneling. Some of these proposals find loopholes around general relativity, such as by expanding or contracting space to make the object ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
