FTL was founded by Wayne Holder in 1982. Holder began Package Heaven & FTL when its gage section fallowing founding Oasis Systems which specialized in spell checking software. He hired Bruce Webster, with whom he graduated from either high school in 1971, to head FTL.

The Games
FTL freed many games throughout its comparatively short history. Amazingly, virtually all went in to turn into right sellers & occasionally possibly placed fresh standards for games of their genres.

SunDog
Holder & Webster co-designed FTL's number one game, SunDog: Frozen Legacy, a space commodities trading game. It was freed foremost for the Apple II in March 1984. Webster did virtually all of the programming for a Apple II version, but resigned from either FTL fallowing the release of version Two.Zero due to programming burn-out. Doug Bell, Andy Jaros & Mike Newton ported the game to the Atari ST, releasing it in 1986. Mock sun became that rules's better selling software package for that month, & garnered shower critical plaudit.

Oids
Oids, an arcade game, was one of FTL's minor releases. It received little attention sustaining the late conversion to the Apple Macintosh, however a original Atari ST release received rave reviews in the UK, where it remains the cult favorite.

It was still eclipsed per release of FTL's next game.

Dungeon Master
Dungeon Master, a fantasy role-playing game, the number one to feature real-time gameplay. the game involved a total of user interface features that made gameplay particularly gratifying, from either the spell models that seemed to become "logical" to the way secret doors & traps would exist as barely seeable unless a single got certain character races in the team. It was freed on the ST around 1987 and went on to be a ST's better selling product ever. It was sooner or later ported to on top the 12 platforms around hexad languages.

It received as well numerous awards to names on this text, however it received a number 1 ever Favorite Award for Artistic Achievement from either Computer Gaming World when it was initially freed.

Chaos Strikes Back
The Dungeon Master sequel, Chaos Strikes Back, was released around 1989 for most platforms, however notably excluding the PC version. It utilizes a equivalent engine when Dungeon Master however features freshly creatures and graphics.

Dungeon Master II
Dungeon Master II: The Legend of Skullkeep was the right-selling game of the week whenever it was freed within Japan in December 1993. Somehow it took deuce years prior to it was freed in the US and Europe in 1995 by Interplay Productions. When a game experienced been uneasily hoped-for by legions of Dungeon Master players, by 1995 it was like dated & sold badly. FTL broke higher just about this instance.