Hey everyone, I just put out a demo for a game I’ve been working on called Starting XI.
The pitch is you’re a young professional footballer coming up through South African football, and you’re trying to get a seat on Bafana Bafana’s World Cup squad. But making the squad is only step one. A place in the team doesn’t guarantee a place on the pitch. cos at the end of the day every match, every choice, every relationship you build or burn either earns you a spot in the Starting XI or costs you one.
Under the hood it’s written in Ink, running through Unity with a custom C# controller layer handling the systems side. This is my first time shipping something built this way, so I’d genuinely appreciate feedback like bugs, pacing, anything that felt off.
Right now it’s Windows only and I’m working on figuring out other platforms down the line.
Demo: thiso-the-dev.itch.io/starting-xi
Would love to hear what people think.