For the US company, see FTL Games

FTL Games

FTL Games was the video game development division of Software Heaven Inc. FTL created several popular video games in the 1980s and early 1990s. Despite the company's small size, FTL products were consistently number-one sellers and received the highest critical acclaim and industry awards.FTL was...

Faster Than Light (FTL) was a software publishing label established by UK

United Kingdom

The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern IrelandIn the United Kingdom and Dependencies, other languages have been officially recognised as legitimate autochthonous languages under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages...

 video game publisher

Video game publisher

A video game publisher is a company that publishes video games that they have either developed internally or have had developed by a video game developer....

 Gargoyle Games

Gargoyle Games

Gargoyle Games was a British software company founded in 1983 by Roy Carter and Greg Follis in order to publish their first game, Ad Astra. They generally specialized in games for the ZX Spectrum even though the company was originally named with the intention of publishing games for Dragon computers...

. The aim was for FTL to publish arcade-style games, while Gargoyle would concentrate on its core business of text adventure games.

Note that this label should not be confused with FTL Games

FTL Games

FTL Games was the video game development division of Software Heaven Inc. FTL created several popular video games in the 1980s and early 1990s. Despite the company's small size, FTL products were consistently number-one sellers and received the highest critical acclaim and industry awards.FTL was...

, the American

United States

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 video game publisher responsible for hits including SunDog

SunDog: Frozen Legacy

SunDog: Frozen Legacy is a 1984 space trading and combat simulator video game. It was the first game produced by FTL Games. SunDog was first developed for the Apple II. Version 1.0 was released in March, 1984, with Version 1.1 released three weeks later. Version 2.0, which included enhancements...

, Oids

Oids

Oids is a video game released in 1987 by FTL Games.The game was originally released on the Atari ST, followed by a conversion for the Apple Macintosh. The Atari ST version was a cult favorite in the UK, where it received rave reviews....

and Dungeon Master.

Notable games

• Hydrofool
  Hydrofool
  Hydrofool is an isometric 3D arcade adventure game released by FTL in for the Sinclair Spectrum and Amstrad CPC. It was the sequel to Sweevo's World. The game music was composed by Rob Hubbard.- Plot :...
  
  was an isometric 3D game set in a giant aquarium, and a sequel to the similar (though drier) Sweevo's World
  Sweevo's World
  Sweevo's World is an isometric 3D arcade adventure game released by Gargoyle Games in for the Sinclair Spectrum and Amstrad CPC. An enhanced version for the Spectrum 128K was also released, titled Sweevo's Whirled...
  
  . The player had to avoid fish and collect objects with the ultimate aim of pulling out enough plugs to drain the aquarium.

• Shockway Rider was set in the future, where gangs of thugs roamed the moving walkways built around a huge city. The player had to collect weapons and bonus objects, and go "full circle" by surviving the perilous journey through the eight districts.

• Lightforce was a vertically-scrolling shoot 'em up with a large main ship. The player had to survive alien attacks in four different sectors of the planet Regulus.

External links

• Faster Than Light's profile on MobyGames
  MobyGames
  -Platforms not yet included:- Further reading :* Rusel DeMaria, Johnny L. Wilson, High Score!: The Illustrated History of Electronic Games, McGraw-Hill/Osborne Media; 2 edition , ISBN 0-07-223172-6...