Case study

Pocket Wormhole: an Android port of the FTL engine reimplementation

Pocket Wormhole brings the Project Wormhole reimplementation of FTL: Faster Than Light to Android using the player's ftl.dat. Its port replaces desktop OpenGL, OpenAL, GLFW and Slick2D interfaces with Android graphics, audio and touch input layers, and adds save export and import for compatible game runs.

Targets: Game
Category: Independent reconstruction cases
Relationship: Independent reconstruction project
Sources reviewed: 2026-11-06
Evidence class: C1 partial scope or analysis entry

Stars: 69
Last commit: 2026-11-02
Language: Kotlin
License (GitHub): GPL-2.0

GitHub data as of 2026-11-10

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Evidence

Demo screenshot from the project's public documentation

Observed: Code, documentation, download and demo observed; a full-reconstruction candidate for manual Class 0 review.
Scope: Partial
Checked: 2026-11-09

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Requirements & limits

Prerequisites: Android 8.0 or newer and a GLES 3.0 GPU.
Prerequisites: A personally owned FTL copy supplying ftl.dat.
Prerequisites: Building requires JDK 17 and Android SDK platform 34 with build-tools 34.0.0.
Limits: XSLT-based mod patches are unsupported; exports transfer faithfully only at a new sector's entry beacon.
License: GPL-2.0 or later.

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BibTeX

@misc{pocket-wormhole-ftl-android-case,
  title = {{Pocket Wormhole: an Android port of the FTL engine reimplementation}},
  howpublished = {\url{https://github.com/adamkulik/pocket-wormhole}},
  url = {https://github.com/adamkulik/pocket-wormhole},
  urldate = {2026-11-06},
  note = {Awesome REA entry: \url{https://awesomerea.org/resources/pocket-wormhole-ftl-android-case/}}
}

Plain text

Pocket Wormhole: an Android port of the FTL engine reimplementation. https://github.com/adamkulik/pocket-wormhole (accessed 2026-11-06). Awesome REA entry: https://awesomerea.org/resources/pocket-wormhole-ftl-android-case/

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README.md GitHub · adamkulik/pocket-wormhole · Revision 07769b1
NOTICE.md GitHub · adamkulik/pocket-wormhole · Revision 07769b1