Hello world!   I just wanted to let you know that we’ve launched our humble merchandise store through the fine folks at Fangamer.  Check it out!

There are currently 4 items available:

The Kestrel Hoodie:

Cory Schmitz‘s Eclipse Poster:

The Pirate T-Shirt:

System Pin Set:

We are currently working on additional items and we’ll keep you updated as they get added to the store.

Thanks!

Hello world, we need your help.

CrashSanders has started LEGO CUUSOO petition to get these mini LEGO ships made into official sets for purchase:

Here’s where you come in.  It needs a mere 10,000 votes to get it into the review process to be potentially made.  So if you would love to have these awesome little ships exist:  head over to the CUUSOO site; make an account (takes 5 seconds); and vote on it!

Also check out the aliens that would go with the ships:

Also, big thanks to Glen Bricker who made the mantis and helped with the campaign.

2012 was an exciting year for us at Subset Games.  The release of our first game was extremely successful.  FTL was better received than we ever imagined.  I wanted to take some time to share some of the accolades FTL has been receiving.

First, the most recent news.  FTL was Nominated for Excellence in Design and the Seumas McNally Grand Prize in this years Independent Games Festival!  This means we’ll be showing off our game on the floor of GDC this March.

Other accolades include:

• IGN called FTL one of the Top 10 Games and their Best PC Strategy Game of 2012 (with a live interview with me & ben – minute 52ish).
• PC Gamer called FTL the Best Shortform Game of 2012.
• At IndieGames.com FTL was named their #1 Strategy Game of the year and #5 Overall GOTY.
• At Indie DB FTL was awarded their Interaction Award and Best Overall Indie Game of 2012.
• Softpedia called FTL the 2012 Best Concept.
• TheKoalition.com labeled FTL as #2 PC game of 2012.
• FTL was listed as one of RockPaperShotgun’s Magnificent and Important games of 2012.
• Venture Beat listed FTL as one of the Best Indie Games of 2012.
• InsideGamingDaily.com nominated FTL for Indie GOTY.
• TheFinancialPost.com called FTL the #4 GOTY.
• NPR called FTL one of their Best Games of 2012.
• Forbes.com chose FTL as their Most Challenging Game of 2012
• Siliconsasquach.com called FTL their #3 GOTY.
• ARoleModel.com called FTL their Indie GOTY.
• GamingPortugal.com has FTL as their #5 GOTY.
• FTL was voted Indie GOTY by the fans of dome.fi.
• Hardcoregamer.com nominated FTL for Best Strategy Game of 2012.
• GamingUnion.net called FTL their Indie GOTY.
• Polygon named FTL their #6 GOTY.
• GameFront and their readers both called FTL their Indie GOTY.
• Jayisgames.com chose FTL as their Strategy Game of the Year.

Please let me know if I’ve missed anything big.  (EDIT – Added a few)

With the start of 2013 you may be wondering what our plans are.  In the upcoming weeks we will be researching potentially bringing FTL to the tablets.  I can’t promise we will fully pursue the port; this is just a ‘test the water’ kind of period.

We have also finished packing and sending the majority of the limited edition Kickstarter posters and are moving onto the other rewards.  The art book is nearly done and I’ll start to work on the instruction manual soon.  I realize that non-backers are interested in these items as well, so we will be looking for ways to enable  you to purchase the PDF’s and potentially posters and other merchandise.

We also intend to be giving a postmortem at this year’s GDC in the Independent Summit.

All this will keep us pretty busy in the coming days.

Thanks for reading and Happy New Year!

FTL was just nominated for IGN’s game of the year award!

Check out IGN’s livestream to catch Justin and Ben’s live interview. Use the hashtag #IGNGOTY to join in the conversation.

Happy Thanksgiving to all who celebrate it!

Matt just got finished with his Post Mortem at GDC China.  In it, he talked about the inspirations for FTL, the development process and our experiences with Kickstarter.  I (justin) was unfortunately unable to attend, but it was apparently well received.

In other news, the folks at Board Game Geek announced FTL as their “2012 Best Indie Game” during their Golden Geek Awards.  We are honored since FTL was heavily inspired by board games and we are frequent users of their site.

Also the Indie Game Magazine is running their Game of the Year 2012 players choice awards.   FTL has been nominated for Best Computer Game and the Game of the Year.   Be sure to follow the link and voice your own opinion!  There were a lot of great indie games this year.

With the game fully out the door and a lot of the post-release event flurry over with, we’ve been back trying to finish off the last of the Kickstarter rewards.  First to come will be the PDF art book, I’d say it’s about 50% done right now.  Since a number of people have expressed interest in it, we’ll see if there’s a way to let others get a copy as well without alienating the original backers.

That’s all for now!

First and foremost – FTL was nominated for awards at the Indie Game Mag.  It’s “player’s choice” so click HERE to go place your votes!

In other news I am finally working on the last Kickstarter rewards: First the Artbook PDF (it’s about 50% done right now); after that we’ll start working on the old-style instruction manual.   We’ll also look into some method to let it be accessible to non-Kickstarter people (since others have shown interest in buying them) but we’ll try and figure out something that’s fair for the backers.   I’ll share some images soon, now go vote!