Interview with Justin Ma (of FTL fame)

Interesting interview with Justin Ma (one of the guys behind the game "FTL"):

To be perfectly honest, it was maybe a few weeks before the release of the game that was the first time I was actually able to beat the game. We were designing it for people who would be really good at it, which is a weird thing to shoot for. We wanted it to have around a 10% success rate even if you know what you’re doing. That was the goal in terms of difficulty