Would you like to play a demo of my new game? Sure you would!

https://store.steampowered.com/app/4377480/Burn9/

It's called "Burn-9," a turn-based tactical visual novel. You're the operator directing a super soldier fighting for her life in a secret Antarctic military base.

The demo is short but our game director and author, my nephew, has a very long story to tell once we're all done.

Let me know what you think! And if you find a bug, please let me know because I'm the QA lead. 😊

#gaming #gamedev #godotengine

Burn-9 on Steam

A spy thriller where you’re not the spy. Safe behind your screen, guide the last survivor of an elite black-ops team in a desperate attempt to salvage a mission gone horribly wrong. Caught between military command and your agent, information is your greatest weapon.

@lisamelton wow this looks so good! Gonna give it a shot this week
@lisamelton How is it in SteamOS? I do most of my gaming lately on a Legion Go S.

@sgtstretch It works on Steam OS using Proton, but gamepad support is currently minimal in the demo. So, on my Steam Deck you have to "steer" the mouse with the right joystick.

But we'll have full gamepad support for the final version.

@lisamelton any chance it will run on macOS?
@xconde Right now you can only run it on macOS by using CrossOver Mac. However, we do plan on having a macOS native version when the full game launches.
@lisamelton Lisa! That’s wild! Very cool. I’d no idea you’d been working on this.
@Gte I just like to surprise people. 😊

@lisamelton @Gte

you contain multitudes

@benroyce @Gte And that's easy when you've existed before time itself. 😂

@lisamelton @Gte

we are all standing on lisa's back

who is in turn standing on lisa's back

who is also standing on lisa's back

it's lisas all the way down

@lisamelton ooooo going to get a drink of propel and come back and try it!!

@lisamelton With a tactical narrative game in the same fest, very much! But looks like I have to wait for release to play on my MacBook…

(Thousand Hells is also built with Godot.)

@lisamelton got me all excited just to get slapped with Windows only. Will it eventually be available for Linux?

@axolotl Yes, the plan is to have it native on Linux and Mac, too.

Currently it works perfectly well if you install it on Linux and enable Steam's built-in Proton emulation layer for Windows.

@lisamelton didnt even know that was an option. Thanks! Ill check that out.
@axolotl Let me know if you need help with that.
@lisamelton im sure i can look it up, but ill let you know if i hit any snags. Iv used linux most of my life but at a low level. I assumed you needed a windows emulator like wine or something like that.

@axolotl Recent versions of Steam for Linux have Windows emulation built into them. You do have to enable it from Steam settings. And often some tweaks are required for certain games to work. See:

https://www.protondb.com/

...for what those tweaks might be if you run into problems.

But many other Steam games also have native Linux versions available.

ProtonDB | Gaming know-how from the Linux and Steam Deck community

Game information for Proton, Linux, Steam Deck, and SteamOS

@lisamelton whoa. gonna give this a try this weekend
@vyr Thank you! 💖
@lisamelton i saw it in the narrative games fest stream just now!

@lisamelton Run under Linux and I didn't found issues.

Good gameplay, did not found counter-intuitive points about the GUI or commands.

Are the in-game docs supposed to get updated during the play in the final release? In the demo as we find out what happen to the team, their status in the document tag stays the same.

@raster Thank you for testing! And I'm so glad everything worked for you. 💖

Yes, the final release will have more in-game documentation.

@lisamelton Hello Lisa, there is no Age identifier for Germany. There could be problems on Steam because without age verification the game is not available in Germany. I will check out the demo because it looks interesting. It would just be annoying if it is not available in Germany.

Best Regards

Wrannek

@Wrannek Thanks for the heads up! I'll contact my game director and the publisher about this.

@lisamelton

Pale-face directing black-ops!

Minimum:
OS: Windows 10 (64-bit)
Processor: Dual-core 2.0 GHz
Memory: 4 GB RAM

I have only just enough RAM. Not sure about some of the othe requirements.

Seems promising.

@lisamelton You had me at "turn-based" and "tactical." Will take a peek.
@lisamelton Duly wishlisted! It shows as 32-bit only on Mac so you might need to tick some checkbox to say that it works on modern day Macs.

@sbszine Thank you so much! 💖

We don't actually have a Mac version yet which is why Steam is listing it wrong. When we do, it will definitely be 64-bit.

@lisamelton Going to give the demo a shot the next time I have some time to kill. Good job so far :)
@mrhcj I really appreciate this. Thank you! 💖
@lisamelton Sounds cool, I haven't tried it yet but I'm interested — I like visual novels. How long did it take you to make?

@akareactor Thanks! 💖

I only started on the project in December, but it's been in development for over a year.

I'm basically acting as an advisor, QA lead and spare coder.

@lisamelton Thanks for the reply!

For a project that's been in dev just over a year, it looks awesome.

I'll try the demo as soon as I finish updating my game. Wishing you both the best of luck!

@akareactor Sweet and thank you so much!