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Definition

Narrenschlag is the Bavarian game studio which focuses on comming up with new concepts and ways of doing things to make the eyes of their community shine bright of joy. We create most of our systems completely from scratch heavily influenced by own life experience, growing up in the fairy tale lands known today as central europe.

Narrenschlag is independent of publishers and inverstors and fully self funded. Our creations are not dictated by the emotion of greed but solely to embark joy in those who experience them.

Nar·ren·schlag

eng. Fellowship of Fools

Narren · (plural) · The fools who lift the mood

Schlag · (singular) · A group of like minded people

TEAM

Meet The Collective

Maximilian
Schecklmann

HEAD OF THE SERPENT
TECHNICAL LEAD
Cannot stop talking about history

Claude Drăgușin

3D & Tech Artist
VISUAL LEAD
Is a genious with textures

Georg

SFX & STORY DESIGN
AUDIO LEAD
Sound Human (Prefers sword on the back)

WHAT DRIVES US

BETWEEN GENIUS AND INSANITY

We met in early 2025 on different game jams and decided our destiny was linked.
We all strife for greatness, for community, for leaving a mark.

Against the Status Quo

All of us grew up with games made with the passion and goal to create something marvelous. Something capturing your heart, touching it and leaving it behind with the golden crest of a new experience.

Grim Dreams

European folk tales and myths forged our dreams. Tales of terrible loss, great victory and unmatched bravery rewarded with witted treason. The caves and relics of old surround us here in Bavaria. Whispering into our stories.

Technical Finesse

Who wants to play a good game with bad performance? We utilize decades of combined .Net experience and the Godot Game Engine to create technically and visually exceptional games.

Proud to be human

We are aware black boxes in the form of large language models are able to spin up remarkable software results in minutes and create worlds with detail and artificial stories behind even fun gameplay. It would be naive to tell the opposite after witnessing it over the past weeks. (Oct 2026)

But we rebell against this. We rebell against artificially generated content. We rebell against giving up our humanity in form of artistic expression for the sake of profit. None of us chose this craft for the sake of making exorbitant amounts of money. We chose it to express ourselves, enrich the lifes of people and to leave an imprint for the ones that will hopefully follow ours to tell them, we were here. We lived. We made our stand.

Games have always been cracked by people smart enough to read between the lines of binary files. Now with AI this trend will likely level up in terms of how much human made art will be unrightfully stolen, remixed and redistributed under a new label. We are not naive enough to tell ourselves the opposite. And while these models – trained by abusing pieces of literature, images, movies, music and others without consent – by people who couldn’t care less about the non financial value of those things – we will not give up.

If you stand with these paragraphs, don’t stay silent. Stand up for yourself and us by supporting us with the means available to you. Share our works or the website, talk about us or just put up a post that you stand with our ideals. We will be forever grateful. And know

We are human. And we will not dare go hollow.

~ Max | Leader of Narrenschlag