Bahnsen Knights — patch notes and updates
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Dated developer announcements recorded from Steam. Open the source for the complete update.
| Update | Date | Excerpt / source |
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| We've released the demo for our newest game! | 2026-02-19 | Randel’s Quest is a Wordle-inspired roguelike where every guess becomes a tactical decision. Build words, trigger effects, manage rows, and defeat enemies in strategic letter-based combat.In the demo you can:• Upgrade your slot machine with new effects during each run • Use a Wordle-based economy where color hints become your currency • Hack your machine with Slotto to reroll, clone, delete, or upgrade effects • Shop with hints instead of gold, buying potions and strange items from Jack • Fight the Dragon bossIf you enjoy word games but want deeper strategy, meaningful build choices, and roguelike replayability, this one’s for you.We would lo |
| GRIZZLY MAN is finally OUT! And it's 20% OFF! | 2024-12-12 | Our newest Pixel Pulp is finally OUT! And it's 20% OFF! https://store.steampowered.com/app/3118010/Grizzly_Man It's the first one we self-publish, so please help us spread the word! And if you grab a copy, please leave a review. It helps a ton! Cheers and have a great end of the year, everyone! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JcCQAy1RuEk LCB Game Studio |
| Nominate BAHNSEN KNIGHTS for the Outstanding Visual Style award today! | 2024-11-28 | Cults, cars and tornados... In glorious pixel art... What's not to like?! https://i.imgur.com/zp7XRge.png https://i.imgur.com/z2jOuiV.png https://i.imgur.com/BBiM5Bv.png https://i.imgur.com/jDTNMMR.jpeg |
| GRIZZLY MAN has been announced! | 2024-07-29 | https://i.imgur.com/IppoDFs.jpeg Everyone, hi! We've just announced GRIZZLY MAN, our newest Pixel Pulp, a grisly game about an amnesiac man in black guiding a group of tourists in Alaska while a slasher starts killing them off one by one! Look, a teaser (and a BEARY good one!) So... Who's excited?! ːsteamthumbsupː You can wishlist the game HERE! Cheers and have a great one! - LCB Game Studio |
| On Writing Pixel Pulps - III | 2023-12-22 | https://i.imgur.com/6jyuGT9.jpg There is something about the idea of 'accumulation' in writing that has always appealed to me. It's not just about the day-to-day stubbornness of the craft—writing two or three pages a day—where, in a short time, you have a novel. Rather, it's the notion that accumulation can be used to justify anything. I've never been attracted to the elegance of simplicity. Given a choice between minimalist industrial designs and complicated Goldberg machines, I don't hesitate for a second. Exacerbated complexity, redundancy, and gratuitousness are pillars of the kind of art I like the most. https://i.imgur.com/54by70S.gif I |
| BAHNSEN KNIGHTS is OUT! | 2023-12-14 | Nico's here. Yeah, it's my birthday. Yeah, I'm turning 40. But that's not the reason why we're here... Today is BAHNSEN KNIGHTS' release date! And to celebrate it, we're dropping a brand new trailer! BAHNSEN KNIGHTS is really important to us. We're so grateful to everyone who played our previous games; the support so far has been amazing. As you may know from previous blog posts, things were... Tough. So we want to thank all of you. THANK YOU. IT MEANS A LOT TO US. https://i.imgur.com/Jb6I6jo.png We'll be sharing new blog posts in the following days, addressing some curiosities from the game, some behind-the-scenes, and more. But we'll keep i |
| Watch the developers play the game! | 2023-12-14 | Bahnsen Knights is out now! Check out this stream with Nico and Fer of LCB Studio playing the game |
| On Writing Pixel Pulps - II | 2023-12-01 | Francis Ponge is a French poet who among many other things wrote a book I read twenty years ago: Le Parti pris des choses (translated into English as Partisan of Things). His procedure is simple: Ponge looks for the extraordinary in the ordinary. He's not interested in exhausting the object in language, he doesn't seek definition by extension. For Ponge the "cigarette" is not a cylindrical roll of paper filled with shredded tobacco, designed to be lit at one end for smoking, but "a small torch much less luminous than aromatic". Ponge does not define an object, he seems to search for something more like an incantation! While developing Bahnsen |
| We need your questions! | 2023-11-30 | Hi Everyone, For the launch of Bahnsen Knights we will be recording a brand new developer walkthrough and we would love to answer any questions you may have for us. So, if you have any questions about the game, the Pixel Pulps series or even just Indie Development in general, please drop your questions in the comments and we'll do our utmost to answer them in the video... Cheers Nico, LCB Game Studio |
| On Writing Pixel Pulps - I | 2023-11-24 | Are you familiar with the "Marvel Method", a process in which Stan Lee would define a synopsis, receive pencilled artwork from the artist and add words over it? https://i.imgur.com/dMvjMZo.png Stan Lee by Fer. Really cool piece, right? Pixel Pulps writing is somehow similar to the Marvel Method: from a story outline I write, Fer puts together a storyboard in pencil and then I write over it. The iterative aspect is there. But there are at least two fundamental differences in our own process, two things that although they are not interrelated by definition, they do so by our own work logic: Stretching and Wildcards. In the Marvel Method, Stan L |
| Watch the Steam Next Fest developer walkthrough | 2023-10-09 | Hi Everyone, Fer and I took some time to sit down and play through the brand new demo for Bahnsen Knights and also answer some questions that you sent in for this Next Fest video. We hope you enjoy watching and finding out a little more about Bahnsen Knights and the Pixel Pulps adventures. Don't forget to play the demo and, if you like what you see and play, wishlist and follow the game! Cheers Nico, LCB Game Studio |
| Watch the Next Fest developer walkthrough | 2023-10-09 | Hi Everyone, Fer and I took some time to sit down and play through the brand new demo for Bahnsen Knights and also answer some questions that you sent in, in this video. We hope you enjoy watching and finding out a little more about Bahnsen Knights and the Pixel Pulps adventures. Don't forget to play the demo and, if you like what you see and play, wishlist and follow the game! Cheers Nico, LCB Game Studio |
| New release date, Next Fest and a message to our fans | 2023-10-09 | Hi Everyone, Today is the beginning of the latest Next Fest and we are very happy that we are able to include our brand new Pixel Pulps adventure, Bahnsen Knights, in this edition. As part of the Next Fest activities we have made a new, expanded demo available for you to try. We will also release our first developer walkthrough for the game where we take a look at the demo and also answer some of the questions you sent in. We are also announcing a new release date today for the game. Owing to a recent bereavement for the team we have moved the release date back to 14th December 2023. My friend and colleague Fer, has a few words to say regardi |
| Play the updated demo now! | 2023-10-05 | Hi Everybody, We just wanted to let you know that we have just released an expanded version of the Bahnsen Knights demo ahead of Next Fest, which begins on the 9th October. In this expanded demo you will be able to get more of a taste of the danger that awaits Boulder as he attempts to discover what happened to his friend and fellow agent Cupra. What do the Bahnsen Knights and their enigmatic leader, Toni, know about his disappearance? Play the demo now and if you like what you see don't forget to wishlist and follow Bahnsen Knights! Cheers! Nico, LCB Game Studio |
| We want your questions for our Next Fest Stream | 2023-10-02 | Hello Everyone, We will be recording a new developer walkthrough for Bahnsen Knights for the upcoming Steam Next Fest, which begins on the 9th October... so soon! We will be taking a deeper look at the game but we would also love to answer your questions too. If you have any questions you would like to ask about Bahnsen Knights, the Pixel Pulps series, or even where the best food can be found in Buenos Aires, just leave your questions below in the comments. Cheers! Nico, LCB Game Studio |
| Pixel Pulps, storytelling and moveless chess... | 2023-09-15 | Hi Everyone, I hope that you have had the chance to try the demo for Bahnsen Knights. If you haven’t, what are you waiting for? If you have, you’ll be pleased to hear we will have an updated demo soon with new content. This will be part of the upcoming Steam Next Fest that we are incredibly excited to be taking part in! In the meantime, I thought you would be interested to get an insight into why we make the games we do and what we think of the genre too. You may have seen some of this touched on in the lovely recent Eurogamer article about visual novels (see here), but we thought you might be interested to find out more! Why create the ‘Pixe |
| We have a release date and a demo! | 2023-08-31 | Hi Everyone, We are really happy to share some exciting news with you today about Bahnsen Knights. We have a release date and a demo for the game! Bahnsen Knights will be released on October 26th, just in time for Halloween… What is a release date announcement without a trailer? If you want to get a taste for the darkness that awaits you can now play the demo too. You will get a flavour of the mystery and dangers that await Boulder, our grizzled undercover detective, as he attempts to uncover what happened to his old friend Cupra, who went missing while investigating the Bahnsen Knights. We hope you like what you see and enjoy the demo. Make |
| Pulp fiction and retro gaming in the 21st Century | 2023-08-08 | Hello! We are Nico Saraintaris and Fernando Martinez Ruppel, co-creators of LCB Game Studio from Argentina. As we have Mothmen 1966 and Varney Lake in the Visual Novel Fest sale we thought this would be a good time to share with you this insight into how we approach creating our games. We have now released two games that belong in to a subgenre that we call Pixel Pulps, Mothmen 1966 and Varney Lake, with a third title, Bahhsen Knights, coming soon. So, what are Pixel Pulps? PIXEL PULPS Pixel Pulps are text adventure games in which we combine a type of narrative from the first half of the 20th century - the so-called 'Pulps', cheap paper magaz |
| Varney Lake is available now! | 2023-04-29 | Hello Everyone, We are really pleased to announce that Varney Lake, the next Pixel Pulps story, is out now! Want to find out a little more about the game? Then here's the trailer: Still want to know more? Well then, if you are a fan of storytelling, engaging puzzles, vampires and mysteries, this is the game for you! Varney Lake is the second Pixel Pulps story, following on from Mothmen 1966. The Pixel Pulps series is thematically inspired by 1950s pulp fiction magazines, with graphical inspiration from 1980s home computing. This combination leads to a very distinctive text adventure game... one we are sure will be quite different to anything |
| Varney Lake launches tomorrow! | 2023-04-27 | Varney Lake launches tomorrow and Listz can't wait to welcome you all to the next Pixel Pulps tale! Varney Lake is the second game in the 'Pixel Pulps' series and follows on from Mothmen 1966. In this new story you must unravel the truth of what happened THAT summer in Varney Lake... |
| The next Pixel Pulps adventure is coming soon! | 2023-03-15 | Varney Lake, the second adventure in our Pixel Pulps series, will be launching on Friday 28th April. We were so excited with this news that we even created a sort of trailer to share the news: Don’t forget to wishlist and follow the game to keep up to date! You can reach us on Twitter or join our Discord. Thank again for all your support! - LCB Game Studio - |