We have released the controller support & engine updates advertised last year on the main branch! As previously discussed, this adds support for controllers in line with the support added to our recent Xbox release. It also updates the game to the latest version of Visionaire, which has been shown to resolve some CTDs that people were experiencing before. In addition to those core changes, it also addresses a few minor art issues and smooths certain puzzle solutions. Nothing major. If you experience any new crashes with this build, please let us know. The "legacy" branch can be activated in the Steam beta branch settings at any time to switch back to the pre-update code.

Hello detectives! As mentioned quite a while ago, we've been working on a new update for NNL. The primary goal for this update was to upgrade our engine to the newer version to hopefully address some of the more fundamental bugs that players have run into, such as odd cursor behaviour on Mac and various rare crashes. Since we haven't been able to replicate these ourselves, an engine update is all we can really do in terms of addressing them. While that was in progress, we also got an opportunity to add controller support to the game. Progress on that is going extremely well, and is more or less complete. Some puzzles (such as the KK peanut grab) have been streamlined to be more accessible on controller, hotspot sizes have been increased as needed, text has been increased in size to be readable at TV distance, and lots more! Note that only Xbox controllers are officially supported through this system, but this does still mean that Steamdecks should work flawlessly. We can't easily get one where we live, so unfortunately we can't verify that, but if you own one - give it a shot! Finally, we've fixed a few more bugs that people have reported, such as Oscar disappearing if you use a particular combination of items and being unable to talk to certain characters in Bee's room if you're standing in a particular spot, and achievements not working for GOG. We are also taking a look at the audio levels of some of the voice to see whether we can address any especially loud lines which people have complained about. Do not, however, that lines which sound a little softer at the start are not targeted for change, as those are mostly due to actor performance and delivery, and are as expected. But if you have specific lines you think need a fix, do let us know! Most of this - especially the controller support - is available for beta testing right now! Simply switch to the "controller" branch on Steam. Do note that this is currently only being updated for Windows. Work is ongoing, with updates a few times a week still, so minor bugs can still be expected (and no work has yet been done to the audio on it). Also note that due to the engine upgrade, save games *might* break. We are unsure about this. In order to let people keep using their old saves after the update goes live, we have added a "legacy" branch on Steam which contains the old build. If you run into strangeness on existing saves, switch to "legacy" and see if it works there. Our official recommendation is going to be to play a new save with the new release. Thanks for playing! Cuddles & Tabby

This is what it's all been building up to. All the writing, the editing, the characters...all if it was calculated with surgical precision to make us maybe have a chance at this award. Remember, when you vote for us, you're not just voting for a rich story...you're voting to make one exhausted writer's life have meaning.

• A small fix has been released to resolve a rare crash on some audio lines on Mac only.

• Fix for art overlapping Cuddles in Bartholomew's office.
• Fix for Cuddles switching to his regular outfit when using certain items on Tybalt while in pickle form.
• Fix for art overlapping character in amusement park.

Patch 1.0.1 will be going out soon, and includes the following changes:

• Upgraded Visionaire to the latest version. This is expected to fix a number of small issues, including flickering inventory items and inconsistent mouse click behaviour.
• Fixed some German translation issues for "Bill".
• Fixed a z-index issue with some art in the Knitty Kitty Club.
• Fixed a line in La Boule de Poils incorrectly hinting at a puzzle solution.

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For those of you not following our Twitter, you may not have seen us introduce the many voice actors from Nine Noir Lives. While Cuddles (Lucas Gilbertson) and Tabby (Carol-Anne Day) will be familiar from our demo and trailers, there's many more voices to discover as you play - fourteen in total! So, sit back and enjoy these short vignettes giving you a taste of each of the voice actors you'll get to experience when Nine Noir Lives releases next week!

SungWon Cho (ProZD)

Nancy Situ

Brendan Hunter

Caleb Gordon

Megan Baldrey

Dallas Soonias

Caitlynne Medrek

Hans Wackershauser

Brett Bauer

Onalea

Keith Hamill

Michael Shepherd

Pretoria, South Africa (July 7, 2022) Today, independent developer Silvernode Games is purring with delight, as they are announcing that their comedy-noir point-and-lick adventure game, Nine Noir Lives, will claw its way onto PC via Steam and GOG on September 7, 2022. Cat lovers and adventure game aficionados alike are invited to pounce into the furry, delicate, yet capable paws of Cuddles Nutterbutter and unravel a fun and occasionally fiendish feline mystery set in the beautifully hand-drawn city of Meow Meow Furrington. The story, themes, and tone of Nine Noir Lives draws its inspiration from several very different sources, including classic film noir, Shakespeare, and the absurdist comedy style of writer and director Taika Waititi. This unlikely combination allowed Silvernode Games to craft a unique, comedic adventure grounded by more serious subject matter. In Nine Noir Lives, players will take on the role of Cuddles Nutterbutter, a feline private investigator with a taste for solving crime literally. Cuddles will poke, talk, and lick his way through his toughest investigation yet: a murder case that threatens to upset the tenuous relationship between the paw-erful Montameeuw and Catulet crime families. Along the way, players will interact with dozens of fully-voiced characters, beautifully hand-drawn scenes, and devious puzzles to answer the most important question of all: how many things need to be licked to solve a murder in this town? Fueled by a lifelong passion for point-and-click adventure games, the two person team at Silvernode Games has been hard at work creating a love letter to the most beloved games in the genre like Grim Fandango and Broken Sword. Nine Noir Lives builds on everything that came before it, adapting elements from other classic adventure games to create an experience that is simultaneously familiar and fresh. Nine Noir Lives is a passion project weve been self-funding for several years now, said William Kruger, Founder of Silvernode Games. We set out to make the sort of game that we always wanted to get lost in. Its been a real labor of love, and we cant wait for players to step into our cat-filled world when the game launches in September. Key Features of Nine Noir Lives Include: [olist]

Join the developers, voice actors and beta testers of Nine Noir Lives as we discuss the story and worldbuilding that went into making the game.

Join the developers, voice actors and beta testers of Nine Noir Lives as we discuss the story and worldbuilding that went into making the game.

Nine Noir Lives has been picked to be part of this week's GDWC Fan Favourite vote Voting would really help us spread the word, so please drop by https://thegdwc.com to do so - and let others know, too! Meow!

Join the creators, cast and artists of Nine Noir Lives as we play through our demo and chat about all things Meow Meow Furrington! 6PM GMT, this Saturday the 6th of February!

Join the creators, cast and artists of Nine Noir Lives as we play through our demo and chat about all things Meow Meow Furrington! 6PM GMT, this Saturday the 6th of February!

Welcome to The Big Adventure Event! Join the designers, artists, voice actors and composer of "Nine Noir Lives" for a relaxed, mostly-unplanned romp through our demo as we chat about the game, discuss what's coming in the future, and answer your questions! We'll be live this Saturday, so drop by and say hello!

Hey everyone! As you may or may not know, Gamescom is this week, and Nine Noir Lives is part of it! https://indiearenabooth.de/gamescom2020/games/show/1910 After the opening ceremony tomorrow, you'll be able to visit a digital expo and over two hundred booths showcasing all the games participating - including ours! And as part of that, from tomorrow until Sunday, you'll be able to download and play our sparkly new demo! *shiny* If you played our old demo, you'll want to check this one out to see what's changed. Namely: it's not 2 years old anymore. This new demo gives a much better idea of what you can expect from the full game, with our new intro, better flow, and extra puzzles and areas to round out the introduction! Beyond that, we have some live events coming up, starting with an AMA on our Discord tomorrow. Drop in anytime throughout the day to chat to the devs: https://discord.gg/pBSZs8p And finally, a reminder about the livestream we're running on Sunday at 4PM GMT where you can join us as we play through the new demo! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lhmJOfCJlQA Looking forward to seeing you all around! Meow!

Join the developers, writers, artists and voice actors of Nine Noir Lives for a playthrough of our new demo! We're going to have a lovely relaxed time answering your questions and showing off all the improvements we made to our demo. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lhmJOfCJlQA

Intro We have some characters we need to cast - and we're opening it up to under-represented voices! Were especially interested in lesser-known accents and dialects, people with speech impediments or vocal handicaps, or any vocal flavour that has made you think your voice isn't beautiful. We want you for our game, and we'll pay you! Were paying 150 CAD for about 360 words of recording. Because everyone deserves to be heard. Character Description The henchtigers are the muscle for one of the nasty criminal elements that operate in the cat city of Meow Meow Furrington. Due to a shortage of actual tigers, most of them aren't tigers at all, but just orange tabby cats. They keep using the name, though, because it's more intimidating. However, they are still ordinary cats at the end of the day, and the lines in this audition show that through a very mundane, low-stakes interaction. Deadline for Submissions The deadline for submissions is the 4th of July 2020 at 6pm GMT. Further Details & Script https://docs.google.com/document/d/1PLkEcoQpr8bz_X1S28cKq2iKbP91dwGkTVUBEuB54JY/edit

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Nine Noir Lives is a comedy-noir "point-and-lick" adventure game, set in a city of talking cats. Play as Cuddles Nutterbutter, second-best PI in town and owner of two definitely normal-sized paws. Armed with your wits, your assistant Tabby Mashmallow, and a tongue that's ready for anything, you'll talk, puzzle and lick your way across the cat city of Meow Meow Furrington to solve a murder that threatens to upset the delicate balance between the Montameeuw and Catulet crime families. Our demo is a thirty-minute slice from near the start of the game, selected to give you a taste of what you can expect when the full version releases next year - without spoiling anything It includes full English voice acting, and text translations into both German and Afrikaans. NNL has been a four-year labour of love for Silvernode, with just the two of us working on it in our spare time, with assistance from contractors all over the world. We just love adventure games, and we're thrilled to finally be able to show our take on the genre to everyone. So please: brush your whiskers, shake your tails, lick your paws clean and dive into Nine Noir Lives!

Want to chat to us during the Steam Game Festival? Got questions about us or about Nine Noir Lives? Do you just want to show us how *adorable* your cat is? Did you play the demo, and now you want MEOAR? Or all of the above! We'll be available on Discord all day from Wednesday to Friday, from 10AM to 5PM daily (GMT +2), so why not drop by for a gab :) https://discord.gg/pGTsDpD

Join the team on Sunday the 21st of June at 4pm GMT as we play through the demo, share anecdotes, answer your questions - and reveal a big surprise! https://www.youtube.com/c/SilvernodeStudios

Nine Noir Lives is a comedy-noir "point-and-lick" adventure game, set in a city of talking cats. Play as Cuddles Nutterbutter, second-best PI in town and owner of two definitely normal-sized paws. Armed with your wits, your assistant Tabby Mashmallow, and a tongue that's ready for anything, you'll talk, puzzle and lick your way across the cat city of Meow Meow Furrington to solve a murder that threatens to upset the delicate balance between the Montameeuw and Catulet crime families. Our demo is a thirty-minute slice from near the start of the game, selected to give you a taste of what you can expect when the full version releases next year - without spoiling anything It includes full English voice acting, and text translations into both German and Afrikaans. NNL has been a four-year labour of love for Silvernode, with just the two of us working on it in our spare time, with assistance from contractors all over the world. We just love adventure games, and we're thrilled to finally be able to show our take on the genre to everyone. So please: brush your whiskers, shake your tails, lick your paws clean and dive into Nine Noir Lives!

Want to chat to us during the Steam Game Festival? Got questions about us or about Nine Noir Lives? Do you just want to show us how *adorable* your cat is? Did you play the demo, and now you want MEOAR? Or all of the above! We'll be available on Discord all day from Wednesday to Friday, from 10AM to 5PM daily (GMT +2), so why not drop by for a gab :) https://discord.gg/pGTsDpD

Join the team on Sunday the 14th of June at 4pm GMT as we play through the demo, share anecdotes, answer your questions - and reveal a big surprise! https://www.youtube.com/c/SilvernodeStudios

We're thrilled to announce that Nine Noir Lives will be a part of the Steam Game Festival this June! From the 9th to the 14th, you'll have a chance to download and play a short part of the game and start getting to know Meow Meow Furrington and the characters that live there :) The demo will be part of the game's opening chapter, intended to ease players into point-and-clicks, so it's not terribly challenging, but it gives you a good idea of what to expect from the game :) It includes full English voice acting, as well as text translations into German and Afrikaans, just as the final game will. We will also be hosting a developer Q&A on our Discord (https://discord.gg/pGTsDpD) during the Festival, where we'll answer your questions, share information about the game's development, and generally just have a good time :) Hope to see you all there!

Hey everyone! Our third Mewsletter has been issued! This time around, we talk about the development progress of the game, our plans for voice acting, and answer some general questions you've had here and on Discord. You can read the newsletter here: https://mailchi.mp/618ad94e9d6d/nine-noir-lives-mewsletter-313271 If you'd like to sign up to the newsletter to receive it automatically, use thr signup form on our website: http://nnlgame.com Or, join our Discord for instant updates: https://discord.gg/pGTsDpD Meow!

Hey everyone! Our second Mewsletter has been issued. This edition includes information about the Make Games SA expo that we attended, details of our cool new trailer, and some concept art/backstory for one of our characters! You can read it here: https://mailchi.mp/b2ae8c1a1247/nine-noir-lives-mewsletter-2 If you'd like to sign up to the newsletter to receive it automatically, use thr signup form on our website: http://nnlgame.com Meow!

Hi guys, we are super excited to announce the release of our game trailer. You can check this out on the Steam game page or in the link below (YouTube). https://youtu.be/nM5Ca3mqlcQ Enjoy William

Our first mewsletter has been sent out! Check it out below https://mailchi.mp/9f73ab74475f/nine-noir-lives-mewsletter-1 If you are not yet signed up for the newsletter be sure to visit the game website and sign up! http://www.nnlgame.com/

Hey guys, we've been featured on Adventure Gamers website! Check it out below! https://adventuregamers.com/news/view/36025 Mee-ow!

Our new website is live! Along with a host of other ways to connect with us and learn more about the game over the next twelve months. http://www.ninenoirlives.com We've got all sorts of neat things planned for our newsletter, for a start. Concept art, short fiction, music samples, and interviews with the developers. Meee-ow! You can also join our Discord channel to chat to us - and other like-minded people - directly: https://discord.gg/72Gxz9 And coming soon, the first gameplay trailer :)