FTL Games
| FTL Games
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| legal form | Division of Software Heaven Inc. |
| founding | 1982 |
| resolution | 1996 (approximately) |
| Seat |
San Diego , California , United States
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| management | Wayne Holder (Founder) Bruce Webster |
| Branch | Software development |
| Website | www.ftlgames.com (offline, existed in the mid 90s) |
FTL Games (Faster-than-Light) was a division of Software Heaven Inc. and produced computer games in the 1980s and early 1990s , including the very first real-time computer role-playing game, Dungeon Master .
history
FTL was founded in 1982 by Wayne Holder. Holder also founded Software Heaven and Oasis Systems . He hired Bruce Webster , who he'd graduated from high school with in 1971, to head FTL. The first project was the game SunDog Frozen Legacy , with the release of which Bruce Webster left the company for health reasons in 1984. At the same time, Doug Bell and Andy Jaros were hired by FTL, who brought in their unfinished game Crystal Dragon . From this prototype, FTL developed the successful Dungeon Master . It was released in 1987 and ported to many other platforms in the years that followed. Around 1996, after a delayed development and release of Dungeon Master II , FTL Games ceased operations.
Developed games
In its more than ten-year history, FTL Games has produced seven games for various platforms and some of them also published them itself.
- SunDog Frozen Legacy (1984)
- Oids (1987)
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Dungeon Master (1987)
- Chaos Strikes Back (1989)
- Dungeon Master: Theron's Quest (1992, for TurboGrafx and PC Engine )
- Dungeon Master II (1993 in Japan, 1996 in North America and Europe)
- Dungeon Master Nexus (1998, for Sega Saturn , only in Japanese)
Web links
- FTL Games at MobyGames (English)
- FTL Games from the Dungeon Master Encyclopedia
- Bruce Webster's SunDog website (last accessed January 3, 2011)
- Wayne Holder's weblog (last accessed September 5, 2012)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Anyone know the story with FTL? - Dungeon Master Encyclopedia Rob Christensen, July 8, 2001
- ↑ Lara Crigger: Chasing D&D: A History of RPGs ( English ) In: 1up.com . Archived from the original on June 29, 2011. Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved January 3, 2011.
- ↑ a b c Damien McFerran: The Making of Dungeon Master (pdf; 1.7 MB) In: Issue 34 . Retro Gamer Magazine. Pp. 30-31. 2006. Retrieved January 19, 2011.
- ^ Daniel Durgan: Interview with the Apple Dungeon Master programmer Don Jordan ( English ) The Un-Official Dungeon Master Web Site. October 1, 1998. Archived from the original on December 5, 2000. Retrieved January 2, 2011.
- ↑ Maury Markowitz: SunDog: History (Interview with Bruce Webster) ( English ) September 1, 2000. Archived from the original on June 18, 2003. Retrieved January 8, 2011.
- ^ Daniel Durgan: FTL History . The Un-Official Dungeon Master Web Site. October 1998. Archived from the original on December 5, 2000. Retrieved January 8, 2011.
- ↑ Theron's Quest for TurboGrafx / PC Engine - Dungeon Master Encyclopedia (English)
- ↑ Dungeon Master II ( English ) interplay.com. November 7, 1996. Archived from the original on November 7, 1996. Retrieved January 2, 2011.
- ↑ Dungeon Master Nexus for Sega Saturn - Dungeon Master Encyclopedia (English)
- ^ Dungeon Master Nexus ( Japanese ) Victor Interactive Software. March 10, 2003. Archived from the original on March 10, 2003. Retrieved January 9, 2011.
