Battle Princess Madelyn

There's a robust playable alpha already with 5 stages to try.

I believe I first heard about this project here on the forums, but essentially, a pixel artist's daughter took a liking to seeing her dad play the first stage of Ghouls n' Ghosts over and over, to the point that she eventually said she wanted to be in the game. Of course, he couldn't make that happen since it was somebody else's game, but he could make his own and put her in it...she said, "But daddy, girls can't be knights!" and he said "Psh, what color do you want your armor to be?"

That's the background of the game project, and you can see the rest on the KS page. It looks to be a very good iteration of a GnG game, and the quick funding shows. It's shooting up similar to our own Bloodstained, so check it out!