Knight & Damsel’s Release Date: August 20th

Hi guys, MK-ULTRA Games’ Mathew Kumar here, and I’m here to say that we’ve finally locked down a release date for Knight & Damsel on PC (via Steam, Humble, Itch.io at launch) and OUYA (via, uh, the OUYA store on the console, like) and it’s August 20th, 2015.

Yes! Knight & Damsel has been a slightly more protracted development than we thought—being developed almost entirely part-time by a loose group of developers, and our first release—but no longer are we saying things like “summer 2014” or “spring 2015” or whatever ridiculous variety of release windows we’ve had. It’s August 20th! Unless the world ends before that date, which would kind of blow. And not to bury the lede, Knight & Damsel will be $9.99 / £6.99 / €9.99 but with a 20% launch discount for the first two weeks taking the price down to $7.99 / £5.59 / €7.99. The game will not be discounted again this year, so get it while the getting is good!

(You can also pick up Maggie McLean’s soundtrack for Knight & Damsel on Steam for $3.99 / £2.79 / €3.99 (also discounted by 20% on launch!) or as part of our Deluxe Edition.)

Anyway, Knight & Damsel is a special project for us, being first developed as a quick jam game for the Toronto Games Jam 2013 with the help of some Capy developers, and eventually going forward with full development because… I don’t know, it just felt like a good idea. Since then we’ve had our ups-and-downs, the game has changed a great deal as we scaled up, scaled down, and then scaled, uh, around, but in the process we’ve been able to show the game as part of things like IndieCade’s eSports Showcase and at the IndieMegaBooth at BitSummit, which has been fantastic.

It’s an “un-cooperative” couch multiplayer game that we hope is subversive fun, as two players compete to rescue the other on a papercraft stage, warping the fourth wall between the 2D screen and world space. It’s got four settings, a quick campaign mode and full customisable arcade mode—and with levels created from random selections of designed screens, every match is different.

We see Knight & Damsel as a competitive twist on the Damsel in Distress trope, fun for all ages, and we hope you like it. See you on August 20th!