Multiplayer is something I've been thinking about and is entirely possible, but is something I'll be ignoring until everything else is working correctly. I'm thinking multi-ship battles + coop. Well I was meaning that since it's open source that it would be something I would put into the engine. I ...

I would highly recommend making it open source from the get-go, but that's (obviously) up to you. At least, I will not be downloading any binaries if there's no source to go with it. :P A reasonable attitude and one I'd expect from most players. I will be open sourcing this within the next few days...

Since I'm recoding the engine from scratch, it won't ever touch the base binaries at all and I can add Lua bindings to do pretty much anything you want with it. To start with you'll be able to add new ship types (including room layouts), new systems, new races, new weapons, new events and new sector...

http://i.imgur.com/PQsXw.jpg Graphics by Kaimar http://i.imgur.com/B3mwS.png Modding in FTL consists of unpacking resources.dat or data.dat, altering the contents, repacking and redistributing the data file or instructions on how to install it. Tools now exist to simplify this process, but it's sti...