For the past few months, I've been working towards building a clean-room clone of FTL. The only input into this build has been the fandom wiki.

Much of it was built by hand through inferring behavior, so some systems don't behave identically (oxygen flow, npc behavior, combat are all slightly different).

The gameplay loop is fully functional (every enemy type, every weapon, drone, flagship, sectors, achievements, unlocks, etc).

My main motivation for this project is to play FTL on my phone. To this end, the game is full of mobile-friendly affordances.

The remaining work is split into three streams:

1. Hard-FTL dependency: The important work of this project is the UI and the engine. All assets are currently placeholders until I make it possible to import your copy of ftl.dat, which WILL be required in order to play.

2. Implementing a hyperspace-compatible API surface: This is a big one that will ultimately enable you to dynamically load any hyperspace-based mods such as multiverse.

3. Play testing: I've tested every piece in isolation, but I don't know if it all works well consistently. I need help with this. I'll be publishing alpha builds to iOS and Android as soon as I manage to jump through all the approval hoops. Reach out if you'd like to help with this.

I've attached a few screenshots of the game.

Super excited to finally be showing off Broadside! Still got a little bit to go until it's ready, but just curious to hear what people's thoughts are based on this little first look?

I won't go too deep into the features - but it's essentially a mix of FTL, slay the spire, and some other classic rogue-likes; all in a world that's designed to feel lived in and real.

Happy to answer any questions!

Was searching the wiki thinking this was scripted... before seeing posts on here about people getting distraction buoys :p

it saved my run and lead to my first normal victory too!

"Hah, I if I can't kill you Ill remove your abbility to upgrade your systems, Your now doomzzed!"

Ive been Helping Adamhulik Bugtest for his Project "pocket wormhole" Witch is a port of XFTL to android with a lot of revamped features

Currently the project is on V 2.7 and Is transferring into Beta after he fixes the last of the bugs reported!

We would love to have everyone's help on finding bugs and pointing out suggestions!

His project is at https://github.com/adamkulik/pocket-wormhole

Hope you appreciate the project and help us port it!

Also It does need a Copy of FTL(ftl.dat) so you must own the game before using it

[Adamhulik codes and doe sit in his freetime, might not always respond]

Hes been working on the project for a couple months now, Suggest supporting him

https://github.com/adamkulik/pocket-wormhole

This is the last repost I promise trust

"Creates single Supershield barrier periodically."

Type: Drone

Cost: 60

Rarity: 4

Power: 3

Speed: 5

Cooldown: 8/10/13/16/20s for 0/1/2/3/4 layers present

AE: Yes

Effect: Periodically adds 1 point of Zoltan Shield to regular shields (Overcharged shields are lost on an FTL jump)

A power-efficient (2 power instead of 3) version comes pre-equipped on the Stealth C

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Hello FTL enjoyers!

Following my post from 5 month ago I'm coming with news on my FTL-inspired space game, Cosmo Cargo.

After 5 months of fine-tuning interface, gameplay, new events and stupid alien dialogues I finally got a new fresh build to share (thanks a lot for your great feedbacks, it helped me a lot!).

The game is Cosmo Cargo, a PvE inventory autobattler roguelite where you deliver packages to friendly aliens and fight Administrators to save the galaxy.

The demo has a lot more replayability, content and polish so if you want to give it another try and share your thoughts about it, I'd love to ear that!

=Cosmo Cargo on Steam=

Github link: https://github.com/Sidd065/ftl-android

I had AI rework FTL's iPad port to make it run on Android devices.

This is just a fun project thrown together over an afternoon. [I didn't know](https://www.reddit.com/pgp70j4) about Project Wormhole when working on this.

It has a bunch of UX improvements to make it work better on a small screen.

Jumped into an ion storm and it literally did not effect me in the slightest due to all the power-producing crew I had

Then it evolved into all 3 most important systems being completely un-ionable. Immune to ion weaponry.

I managed to pick up both Envoy and Mafan in this run :)

 "Stuns combat drones attacking your ship."

Type: Drone

Cost: 35

Rarity: 1

Power: 1

Speed: 5

Cooldown: 7000ms

AE: Yes

Effect:

• Stuns Combat, Hacking, and Boarding drones with 47.8% chance to destroy them during the 5 seconds stun
• Starts fully charged when first deployed, but after the first shot it needs continuous power for 7 seconds to charge the next one

Comes pre-equipped on the Stealth C

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I posted about struggling a few years ago https://www.reddit.com/r/ftlgame/comments/wo9gsn/so_close_to_winning_for_the_first_time/

So I bought this game well over 10 years ago. I have played it in 3 bursts over that time. When I first got it I did like 10 runs and miserably failed. However, I really enjoyed the combat side of the game. Fast forward to 4 years ago and I picked it back up again on a whim. I got to the end boss 4 times but ultimately couldn’t beat the ship. In my opinion, the difficulty jump is pretty big going into the final fight. I got quite frustrated and put it down. Over the past couple of days I started to play again as I wanted something short while I listened to podcasts. Wasn’t attempting to win but just have fun.

First time I get to the final boss ship I beat it… and finished the game. Almost like not not trying was the key.

Ship was the standard Kestrel, full crew with all yellow skills in shield, piloting, weapons and engines. Level 3 shield and 45% evasion. I had x2 Burst laser 2s and a Breach missile unit. I also had Level 3 Cloaking.

Very enjoyable to finally do it. Sorry this is a bit random. Almost a fllow-up to my 4 years ago post!

First try on hard, btw. The choice was between sun and pulsar, so I chose sun. I survived the beacon, but not the sector.

but only because i got lucky with an ion star that disabled their shields

Is it the Wrong color?!!?

I struggled really hard to beat the game on normal with Engi A. I always failed in the later sections.

Two days ago I posted about my win (finally!)

After that, I played the Federation ship on normal and won the first try. Today I played the zoltan ship on normal and again won first try.
Both wins not even close.

Thanks everyone for the tips I got here!

I will continue to improve and when I've won with every ship on normal, I'll continue with every ship on hard.

Definitely not a confirmation, but it’s not “no” either. They’re confirmed to be at least considering it.

I'm new to the game (like, new new), and I just got to sector 6 by the skin of my teeth. At this point, my strategy of burst lasering their shields has stopped working because the laser misses at least 1 shot almost every time, so I can do nothing to them. Bombing the shields first doesn't work either because the follow up shots with the laser still miss and I'm back to square one. Starting from S5 I had to seriously repair, but other than that, I've been upgrading my ship and selling spare cargo... should I have gone for more guns?

"It fires faster than Mark I and can also shoot down incoming lasers."

Type: Drone

Cost: 70

Rarity: 3

Power: 3

Speed: 7

Cooldown: 880ms

AE: No

Effect: Shoots down incoming missiles, hacking and boarding drones, individual flak debris, and asteroids but also ion blasts and lasers (including those shot by combat drones) (Has blind spots)

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