Stark Raving Sane Games

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Narrative games for a more civilized age. Making "The Knight & the Maiden", an adventure game about knights, tourneys, princesses and intrigue! Consider subscribing to my newsletter! https://starkravingsanegames.com/newsletter.html #dkgame #indiedev

Screenshot of a narrative scene describing a visit to a Luddic pilgrim shrine on the planet Gilead, the "gem of the Persean Sector".
Screenshot of Starsector's strategic interface. A fleet of starships is travelling near a large gas giant and its much smaller moon.
Screenshot of a number of starships of different sizes engaged in a tactical battle around a space station, with colourful laser beams and explosions.
A chapter vignette inspired by a medieval illuminated manuscript with a decorative pattern of red and blue leaves around the edges. The pattern is further decorated with heraldic shields in the upper corners, little birds sitting in the branches along the sides, and a scene with two knights jousting in the bottom. The vignette shows Sir Emmett, a young male courtier wearing a lovely salmon-coloured doublet and hose outfit in a Renaissance style and holding a flower. The accompanying text reads: "Chapter 1. In which Sir Emmet meets the one true love of his life (again). Marigold suspects foul play. Charlotte converses with Princess Iris. Sir Emmett is menaced in a tavern. Appropriate names for warhorses are discussed. The Mystery Knight and Sir Emmett joust in the Grand Tourney."
An in-game screenshot from The Knight & the Maiden. The scene is a large park with trees and hedges in a pixelart style. Three characters – the protagonist Charlotte, her love interest Princess Iris, and the Princess's loyal servant Marigold – are standing near a large fountain. In a dialogue box, Princess Iris says, "Oooh, this is just like in the 'Romance of the Swan Knight'! How delightfully mysterious! Of course I agree."
Screenshot from "Verne: The Shape of Fantasy". Jules Verne, the game's protagonist, is in the sickbay on the Nautilus. He is sitting in a dangerous-looking chair contraption that has been outfitted with wires and mechanical gizmos. Cedric, the ship's surgeon on the Nautilus, says, "Now, go to your quarters and get some sleep. Doctor's orders!"
A pixelart scene of the majestic neoclassical facade of the Bayerischer Bahnhof train station in Leipzig. A green steam locomotive is parked in front of the station. A human hand is hanging out of the locomotive's open firebox, which is probably not a good sign.
Screenshot of the September 2025 Steam Hardware and Software Survey. "Windows 2022 64 bit" is listed as up from nothing in previous months to 0.09% in September.
Screenshot from the Godot editor of a few lines of movement-related code
Screenshot of the Mozilla Javascript documentation about Spread syntax. The phrase quoted in the post is highlighted.
Screenshot of an exceptionally smug-looking goat that goes, "BAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHH!"
Screenshot of a very angry tulip merchant (who has strong 'NFT bro ca. 2022' vibes) shouting, "I'm ruined! Ruined! And it's this damn goat's fault! My precious tulip bulb!"
Some A* movement code in Godot. At the top is a comment that says, "Dear God of Coding, please make this work. T_T"
An adorable little crow (who has just sold a “perfect skipping stone” for a gold button) looks down at four other stones arranged like an adorable little storefront and exclaims, “I did it! Oh my word! I sold something!”
Screenshot from the Youtube Studio website with a banner that says, 'You can now choose if you want to allow third-party companies to use your content to train AI models in Studio Settings under "Third-party training" '
In-game screenshot with the game menu open, including options like "Inventory", "Journal", "Save & Load" and "Settings".
Pixel art game with three characters moving around a map in a follow-the-leader style
Illustration of a scene set in a secluded garden. A young lady kneels in front of a glowing, ghostly man clad in armour and a flowing cape. He holds out his sword and touches her shoulder to dub her a knight. In the background is an overgrown and neglected stone statue of the same man. Behind them the sky is red and golden as the sun is setting.
Screenshot of a bright and colourful pixelart scene. Charlotte, a young blonde woman, is visiting the apothecary's stall at the marketplace. She says, "Yes, hello, Master Apothecary! Do you have anything that can make people fall asleep, uh, really, really quickly? ...which is a thing I need for very normal and legal reasons. Yes."
Establishing shot of a medieval city. It is very colourful, similar to what one might see in a graphic novel. The city is located on the coast, on either side of a large river, and surrounded by fields and hills.
Short video of grid-based mouse movement in a pixelart game using A* pathfinding.
An in-game pixelart scene set in a garden with trees, hedges and paths. Charlotte, the protagonist, and Princess Iris are talking near a large fountain. Charlotte says, "Thy Gracious Highness, I am honoured to meet thee. If thou wouldst permit me to introduce myself? My name is Charlotte." Meanwhile, the Princess's servant Marigold stands nearby with an expression of irritation.
Screenshot from the itch.io dashboard with one day showing 54 views, otherwise 2 or 3 a day at most.
Screenshot from the Godot editor of about 90 absolutely amazing-looking (if I do say so myself) pixelart character sprites all lined up. There's everything from princesses to knights to rats in adorable little hats.
A panel from a Moomin comic. Moomintroll is lying in his bed as the sun rises outside the window. He looks rather cranky because Moominmamma saying, “Get up and create, darling. It’s eight o’clock.”
Title illustration of my own game. In the foreground are the two main characters, the armour-clad Charlotte and Princess Iris in a blue dress. In the background is a jousting field and a palace in a forested landscape.
Detail from the Tablet of Shamash, from ca. 888-855 BCE. It is a stone relief in Assyrian style with cuneiform writing on it. On the right is a male figure seated on a throne, probably the sun god Shamash. On the left is a group of three standing figures, perhaps worshippers. In the middle between them is the sun disc (a circle with a four-pointed star and four rays) above a table or altar.
'Artist’s impression of a hall in an Assyrian palace' by Sir Austen Henry Layard. A very colourful drawing of a large hall with wall painting and two statues of lammasu (human-headed winged bulls). In the middle is a group of people, probably a king surrounded by his advisors and scribes.
Stone relief of two Mesopotamian kings greeting each other. Ca 845 BCE. From the throne dais of Shalmaneser III at the Iraq Museum in Baghdad.
Pixelart in-game screenshot of a tiltyard (the field where a jousting match takes place). The Mystery Knight, a knight in a full-face helmet, is talking to his squire Waltheof. The Mystery Knight says: "Any last words of encouragement, Waltheof?"
The Options menu from the game The Knight & the Maiden. It's a standard RPG Maker-style menu, but all the text is in (pretty bad) Latin.
Charlotte meets Gregor, a tough-looking doorman, at the front door of Lord Taraquin's palatial manor. He asks: "Yes? What do you want?" Charlotte's possible replies are: "Can I talk to Lord Taraquin?", "I'm investigating a crime…", and "I'm selling these fine leather surcoats…"
An in-game pixelart scene of a suite of richly-furnished rooms in the patrician Lord Taraquin's manor. The patrician himself is sitting behind a desk in his study, unaware that anything is going on. Charlotte, the main character, is standing in front of a wall clock in another room and says: "Oh, it's one of those new, modern mechanical clocks. They're supposed to be incredibly precise! I heard they only lose about 45 minutes a day!"
An in-game pixelart scene of a medieval soldier inspecting a horse wagon outside a city gate. The wagon is just a white rectangle that says "W".
In-game pixelart map of a large mansion in a classical style with white walls and a red roof. It is surrounded by a garden, as well as streets and other residential buildings.
An in-game pixelart map. A large, but clearly abandoned castle with damaged fortifications and decrepit buildings sits on top of a large forested hill. It is surrounded by a lake, almost like a natural moat. A path winds up to the castle from the bottom of the map. A tall waterfall from the upper lake down to another lake at the foot of the hill.
In-game pixelart map of a forested hilly area with lakes, streams and tall waterfalls.
Pixelart map of a rural manor house, surrounded by barns, fields, an orchard, and a small lake. People are engaged in various tasks around the manor, such as hanging up laundry and unloading a wagon.
In-game pixelart screenshot of a verdant garden in the courtyard of a large building, with trees, flowers and hedges. Charlotte, a young blonde woman, is looking at a stone plaque near a statue of a knight. She thinks, "There's an old stone plaque here. Let's see what it says... 'Liber mysterius Catharina Sancta Archonte scribitur itinerarium est qui illuminat fortunatque cursum nostrum ad vitam aeternam...' Oh, that's an old prayer to Saint Catherine, isn't it?" Translation of the Latin text: "The mystical book that is written by Saint Catherine the Archon is the itinerary that lights and blesses our journey to the eternal life..."
Pixelart screenshot of a large temple at the beginning of a ceremony. A congregation is seated on benches arranged around an altar in the middle. Three clergy, two women and a man, are standing at the altar. The woman prelate in the middle intones a hymn, "Gloria in excelsis Divis!"
In-game screenshot of a scene in the palace gardens. The protagonist Charlotte, Princess Iris of Castamont, and the Princess's lady-in-waiting Marigold are standing near a large fountain. Charlotte says: "Thy Gracious Highness, I am honoured to meet thee. If thou wouldst allow me to introduce myself? My name is Charlotte."
A screenshot of a Jira epic named "Chapter 5" with three issues: "Create Story", "Write Dialogue" and "Make Chapter Good"
In-game screenshot of the streets of Castamont. Two craftsmen are talking outside a bar. Man nr. 1 says: "You think that Mystery Knight could win the tournament?"
The title screen of The Knight & the Maiden – A Modern Medieval Folk-Tale. On the left is Charlotte, a woman with blond hair wearing a plate armour, while on the right is Princess Iris, a dark-haired woman wearing a blue dress. In the background is a scene from a tournament field, and a palace with white walls and blue roof is off in the distance.