From VG247: “FTL, the debut release from Subset Games, was born from a set of perfect coincidences.
Co-designers Matthew Davis and Justin Ma just happened to submit an early build of the spacefaring strategy game to the IGF at GDC China, and it just so happened that people loved it. It was also fortunate that some big names in the industry took notice, raising the games profile.”
Source: N4G PC The making of Into the Breach: how Subset Games stripped back to the essentials