LCB Sport Studio’s third Pixel Pulp, is out now on Xbox.
Distinctive interactive fiction expertise merging Twentieth-century ‘Pulps’ with 80s sport aesthetics.
A fascinating fusion of undercover cop drama, supernatural beliefs, and tornado-chasing street journeys.
Bahnsen Knights is the third Pixel Pulp launched by LCB Sport Studio. A Pixel Pulp is our personal method of understanding interactive fiction, making an attempt to deliver collectively two distant components such because the style narratives of the early twentieth century— the so-called ‘Pulps’—and the pc video games of the 80s, with their restricted palettes and with a complete historical past of potentialities forward as a medium.
However what we time period “Pixel Pulps” shouldn’t be mere nostalgia; it’s a glimpse right into a previous that may have been.
Historical past of Bahnsen Knights
In Bahnsen Knights, gamers assume the position of Boulder, investigating the disappearance of a fellow Company member by infiltrating the Bahnsen Knights—a cult led by Toni, a former used automotive salesman. Toni believes that hell is above us, and tornadoes are the satan’s doing. Along with his Bahnsen Knights, Toni drives his Sierra to conduct ‘street exorcisms’, as a method to battle F5 tornadoes.
As with all Pixel Pulps, Bahnsen Knights goals to craft a gripping narrative expertise harking back to tales printed in pulp magazines from the primary half of the Twentieth Century—tales that refuse to launch their grip on readers.
Artwork of Bahnsen Knights
The place to begin was the colour palette of the ZX Spectrum console, restricted to 6 colours plus black and white with two ranges of brightness. Though the palette will be strident when utilized in its entirety, that is a part of its appeal and nostalgia.
To create distinct identities for every sport, we lowered the palette to a few colours for every Pixel Pulp. Drawing parallels with journal printing methods—mixing small dots of two colours to create the phantasm of a 3rd shade—we aimed to attain this impact.
In Bahnsen Knights, centered round an undercover cop, saturating every part in pink felt applicable, making a steady sense of alertness. Combining it with magenta provides the visuals a vibrant neon 80s high quality that enhances the story completely.
Enter in Bahnsen Knights
Our Pixel Pulps use a choice-based enter system, extending past choose-your-own-adventure choices to regulate mini-games. In Bahnsen Knights, that is no completely different. This technique not solely aligns with sure sport genres we love but additionally permits us to experiment with sport design components reminiscent of time, muscle reminiscence, and reflexes. And like our different Pixel Pulps, Bahnsen Knights features a variant of a solitaire we designed… Cross Solitaire!
Time in Bahnsen Knights
Time is an important factor that enhances the gripping nature of the story. As an infiltrated agent, Boulder is all the time on the verge of discovery, leaving no room for relaxation.
Experimenting with quick-time occasions, counters, and different sport design assets, we intention to interrupt the passivity of studying an interactive fiction, the place time is normally on the participant’s facet—one of many achievements of the sport has to do with this, particularly with the studying time… are you able to unlock it?
What May Have Been and What Is perhaps
Our Pixel Pulps – rooted in pulp-like narratives, pixel aesthetics harking back to a Eighties that may have been, and a management system that permits itself to experiment as if the online game trade hadn’t already calcified some design practices – usually are not merchandise of a previous we yearn for, however of a previous but to come back. We hope you get pleasure from discovering this little universe of ours!
Bahnsen Knights
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$9.99
In a world of spiritual fanaticism, F5 tornadoes and Ford Sierras you might be Boulder, an secret agent. Your project sees you infiltrate the Bahnsen Knights, a lethal, supercharged cult with an enigmatic chief. On this murky and harmful world it’s essential to preserve your wits about you and keep alive to unravel the thriller behind an outdated good friend’s disappearance.
Who’re the Bahnsen Knights?
The Bahnsen Knights are the quickest cult within the land. Powered by spiritual fanaticism and supercharged Sierras they observe their charismatic chief Toni as they unleash hell upon earth. What are their goals? Why are they performing ‘route exorcisms’ and babbling about ‘miracles on the street’? And including to the enigma: Why are they holding paranormal investigator Lou Hill captive in a trunk?
An enigmatic chief
The Bahnsen Knights’ highest authority, Toni, is an ex-car salesman preaching that Hell shouldn’t be under however above us all. He was being investigated by agent Cupra, certainly one of your oldest associates within the Company. However now Cupra’s gone. Does Toni have one thing to do together with his disappearance?
An secret agent
You thought you had seen every part in all of your years working for the Company, however this project is one thing else, one thing private, one thing darker… and it scares you. Will you be capable of preserve it collectively for lengthy sufficient to uncover what occurred to Cupra and take down Toni and the Bahnsen Knights as soon as and for all? Hazard lies round each nook and each dialog. You simply want to remain alive!
Options
– Immerse your self within the story with its wealthy, branching narratives and evocative illustrations
– Resolve the destiny of characters in ‘Select Your Personal Journey’ model gameplay
– Earn the belief of the Bahnsen Knights to outlive the investigation
– Piece collectively extra of the interconnected world of Pixel Pulps
– Accessible, brain-tickling puzzles all through the story… together with the return of solitaire!
A Pixel Pulps journey
Bahnsen Knights is a standalone expertise and the third within the Pixel Pulps collection of interactive adventures. Created by novelist Nico Saraintaris and artist Fernando Martinez Ruppel, Pixel Pulps fuse distinctive writing and gorgeous illustration, impressed by mid-Twentieth century pulp fiction and 80s dwelling pc graphics. The primary quantity includes three video games: Mothmen 1966, Varney Lake, and Bahnsen Knights.
Bahnsen Knights, like all of the Pixel Pulps, is made to be performed by anybody who enjoys superb storytelling.
