Abyssal Born Studio's The Lamb Chop Show Puts The Puppeteer In Charge Of The Whole Stage
The Lamb Chop Show is a turn-based puzzle game in development at San Francisco's Abyssal Born Studio, shown at gamescom asia x Thailand Game Show 2026 in Bangkok.
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Why it matters
A graduation project turned small international studio is shopping a demo in Southeast Asia not for press but for a funding partner, which is the state most independent puzzle games are in long before anyone outside a show floor hears about them.
Key Facts
- The Lamb Chop Show is in development at San Francisco-based Abyssal Born Studio.
- Players direct the princess and her enemies by dragging tokens into sword and shield frames along the top of the stage.
- The game began as director Aria Batdorff's graduation project at a San Francisco art university.
- The demo includes the entirety of Act 1 and ends with a boss fight.
- The team exhibited in Kuala Lumpur in early October and in Bangkok at gamescom asia x Thailand Game Show 2026.
Players act as the puppeteer of a mirror-world theater, dragging tokens into sword and shield frames to direct the princess and her enemies alike. The demo covers all of Act 1, and the team is now looking for a publisher.
The team behind the game met at an art university in San Francisco, where director Aria Batdorff's graduation project grew into a studio. Batdorff, who is from Taiwan, directs and works across design, programming, art, and animation; 3D artist Ian Leung, from Hong Kong, handles the 2.5D presentation and stage finishing.
Combat runs on what Leung calls an original token system: coins are dragged into frames along the top of the stage to set the actions of the princess and her enemies. The story is framed as a bedtime tale with a magic mirror, and Leung says mystery and horror elements may work their way in.
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