Silent Burn

1. B14
   Build 14Nov 9, 2026, 1:22 AMLatest00b2f98

   The run: an opening where your home falls and you escape; charge the jump drive (J) and pick a destination on the region map; each jump buys you time; lose the mothership and see how far you got

   1 sessions1 players2 min 30 s median0 comments

   Play build 14
2. B13
   Build 13Nov 9, 2026, 12:53 AM9ee0fed

   The world: a big dark map you chart as you go, scans that show rough contacts, two smaller factions with mining ops, patrols, convoys and stations; enemies that jump away raise the alarm, and enough alarm brings the main fleet

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   Play build 13
3. B12
   Build 12Nov 9, 2026, 12:13 AM9f9e373

   The mothership grows: build modules into its slots (reactor, hangar, storage, foundry, constructor, guns, sensors, engines, shields) and add hull sections to make it bigger and stronger, and easier to spot

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   Play build 12
4. B11
   Build 11Nov 8, 2026, 11:48 PM1c2db4e

   Combat: mass drivers, missiles and point defense, each with its own ammo made from ore; fighters strafe and come home to recharge and rearm; select the mothership to run its production queues

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   Play build 11
5. B10
   Build 10Nov 8, 2026, 11:28 PM1a0cd4c

   Simple 3D ships on a flat field with a fixed camera; simple movement instead of flip and burn; right-click and drag to set where a group faces when it arrives

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6. B9
   Build 9Nov 8, 2026, 10:55 PM47971ae

   A short guide for your first minute; ships head home to charge before they run dry, then go back to their order; groups arrive together; ships dock in berths along the mothership

   1 sessions1 players2 min 48 s median0 comments

   Play build 9
7. B8
   Build 8Nov 8, 2026, 10:34 PM2ff79ee

   Simplified: flat 2D from above with plain shapes; one mothership with a command and a factory module; ore is the only resource; ships run on power and recharge at the mothership

   2 commits in this build

   • aa03ecc Silent Burn · Build 8: top-down 2D on a plain canvas (Kraig, Nov 8 2026: "let's make top down 2d. simple shapes to make the build process faster")
   • 2ff79ee Build 8: one mothership with modules, ore only, power and hangar charging, seen or not seen (Kraig, Nov 8 2026)

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   Play build 8
8. B7
   Build 7Nov 8, 2026, 9:57 PM40c82c7

   The dark forest: an enemy fleet somewhere in the system, playing by your rules. Burns give off heat and give you away; you see only what your sensors pick up; P pings to see everything nearby, and lights you up

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   Play build 7
9. B6
   Build 6Nov 8, 2026, 9:38 PMc7f36a4

   Now called Silent Burn. Three capital ships (command ship, foundry, manufactory); ore becomes metal becomes items; drones carry metal and items; every burn spends items

   2 sessions1 players2 min 17 s median0 comments

   Play build 6
10. B5
    Build 5Nov 8, 2026, 9:25 PMd03f2f4

    Space pauses (orders still work); a selected ship shows its course with the flip spot marked; zoomed out, ships become icons

    2 commits in this build

    • 30c906e Space pauses the game; orders and the camera still work while paused (Kraig, Nov 8 2026)
    • d03f2f4 Selected ships show their course with the flip spot marked; zoomed out, ships become icons; fix a zero frame step that could turn a ship's position into NaN (Kraig, Nov 8 2026)

    1 sessions1 players46 s median0 comments

    Play build 5
11. B4
    Build 4Nov 8, 2026, 9:22 PMcc7f975

    Zoom out much further, until the whole system is a few dots

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    Play build 4
12. B3
    Build 3Nov 8, 2026, 9:20 PMc4cf739

    The camera moves with WASD or the arrows again, free of the mothership; H brings it back

    1 sessions1 players1 min 36 s median0 comments

    Play build 3
13. B2
    Build 2Nov 8, 2026, 9:15 PM0bad086

    Real flight: ships keep their momentum. Short hops on thrusters, long moves flip and burn: turn, burn, flip at the midpoint, burn to stop on target

    1 sessions1 players1 min 60 s median0 comments

    Play build 2
14. B1
    Build 1Nov 8, 2026, 9:00 PM81a9a72

    One star system: a mothership, two miners and an asteroid field. Select and order ships RTS-style, miners haul ore home on their own, ore builds miners and fighters

    3 commits in this build

    • 6963673 Build 1: one star system, mothership, miners, fighters, asteroid mining, RTS controls
    • adc0cb6 Cmd+number saves a control group (Kraig, Nov 8 2026)
    • 81a9a72 No camera pan or rotate: a fixed angle that follows the mothership, zoom only (Kraig, Nov 8 2026)

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    Play build 1

Measured by the ShipGames recorder in every build: anonymous, no names or cookies. A session counts once the player presses something; bots and rapid repeat plays are left out.

From the game's own git history: 18 commits, 14 builds. Self-reported. Commit times come from the maker's computer and can be edited.