FTL data file
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Faster Than Light (FTL) is a very nice (and quite difficult) rogue-like-ish game with space battles, teleporters, management of the energy of your ship, asteroid fields, alien species, droids (drones), etc. It is quite cheap, DRM-free and available natively on Intel-based GNU/Linux. These are notes taken while trying to find out the format of the .dat files of the game containing the game assets, ships statistics, events, etc. when I had not access to the internet to find the solution. There is a companion C program, ftldat, for extracting the files within the archives and generating archives. Unsurprisingly, similar tools with the same name already exists. However, the description of the process of reverse-engineering a (very simple) binary format might be interesting for someone out there.