Modding Premise
 

Approaching Infinity has been designed from the ground up with modding in mind. The vast majority of files are plain text, images are standard format .png, and there will be a full modding guide available upon release.

Note that playing with modded files disables achievements. You can add or change names and images to you heart's content, but if you drop the price of all devices to 1 credit, or give your starting ship 10,000 hull points, the game will detect it.

[EDIT 11/26/14]:
The game has gone to production! I am already working hard on the first content update, and a major part of that is the "Modding Folder". This folder contains copies of moddable files, so you can safely change things. All you have to do is change a config file to switch between modded and non-modded games.