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.