FTL: Faster Than Light

Yeah.

14, FTL: Faster Than Light.

Okay.

13, Cult of the Lamb.

So that means development started in 2014.

And the pool of rogue-lites that you're drawing from in 2014, really the, the big ones are, like, Binding of Isaac, FTL, Spelunky, right? Ma- there's probably a few more that I'm, I'm missing in there.

But all of the people that are making rogue-lites in this...

Oh, and, uh, Rogue Legacy.

But I could, I could go higher.

I'm just thinking like for our S tier games, is it really in this like canon of like I think these are the five greatest roguelites of all time? Maybe sans a couple that we haven't played yet.

Looking at like FTL I think maybe could get up there.

And I'm, I'm just not sure it is.

And now the episode.

Inside Video Game Music, Episode 1, Ben Prunty, Milky Way, Battle, from the FTL soundtrack.

Inside Video Game Music gives you a behind-the-scenes look into your favorite video game music.

My name is Tom Snively, and I'm a game composer in New Jersey.

On this podcast, I talk with game composers about their background, their composing process, and how their music fits into the game.

My goal is to learn and to share knowledge with a community of game players, creators, and any who are passionate about video games and their music.

In this episode, I talk with Ben Prunty, the game composer who made the soundtrack to FTL, Faster Than Light.

We'll talk about the battle version of his song, Milky Way.

It is an interesting one because it does have these kind of loads and loads of random events and stuff.

And I think, one of the suggestions that you came up with of like a similar modern game was like FTL right which is you know you're kind of going in the same direction every game you're like doing a big journey and there's all these little story events and rather than being about like crawling through a dungeon and killing loads of stuff it's about kind of managing people and resources and all the stuff that happens along the way so definitely feels like there are yeah like modern games in this kind of like pool of run based games that maybe aren't like in any conscious way derived from it.

But you look at something like FTL and there's more Oregon Trail DNA in it than there is rogue DNA in it.

Was this originally actually an educational game? I thought that was a joke.

No! So I can plant the seed here.

I quite like the fact that you're not doing much navigation in it.

It's just the road is already set.

I mean, it did remind me of FTL and things like that because of that.

And it has, you know...

It has an FTL-style map.

You're picking nodes.

You're going through.