Alwa’s Awakening NES – Elden Pixels

The highly anticipated NES port is coming!

Use your magic staff and progress through a large interconnected world where you’ll solve puzzles, fight enemies and defeat bosses in order to help free the land of Alwa. Explore and uncover the secrets by using your platforming skills in this challenging and charming 8-bit adventure game.

Our dream is finally coming true! We have partnered with Retro-Bit to release for a limited time a (remastered) Alwa’s Awakening in a physical form on a NES cartridge with manual later this year.

Download the Beta demo now!

No need to dust off the old NES just yet. Just press that big download button and start the game up in any emulator. This is not the entire game but instead a demo that’s about an hour of playtime. We’re really curious what you have to say about the game so please join the discussion on our Discord.

Features

Use your magic staff

Equip a magic staff that holds many mysterious powers. Use it to solve puzzles and defeat enemies in over 400 unique rooms. Upgrade your staff by finding new gemstones.

You are Zoe

Play as Zoe who has been sent for to help free the land of Alwa. With easy to understand controls, you’ll jump and fight your way through the many different challenging rooms.

Explore the land of Alwa

Explore a large interconnected map in true ‘Metroidvania’ style. Play the game any way you want and find your own way through the land of Alwa.

Find new items and learn new abilities

Find and unlock a slew of different objects throughout the adventure that will both give Zoe new abilities as well as unlock new areas.

ALWA’S AWAKENING IS COMING TO NES IN 2021
ONLINE PRE-ORDERING OPENING SOON
DEVELOPED BY A TEAM PASSIONATE FOR RETRO
PUBLISHED BY RETRO-BIT PUBLISHING

Alwa’s Awakening has built in battery save will work on both NTSC and PAL is coming to NES in 2021

Screenshots

(Work-in-progress)

Partners

Retro-Bit Publishing strives to provide the re-releases of some of the most rare and unattainable classic titles to regions where they were never released. While closely partnering with licensors, Retro-Bit Publishing brings these unique retro titles to gamers today from around the world, and at a price worth collecting!

To commemorate each release, every exclusive republished game features multiple one-of-a-kind and limited edition collectible items to enhance the experience and add to every retro collection. With attention to detail of every title, Retro-Bit Publishing has brought numerous retro gaming fans the chance to own time-honored classics in their original form – offering gamers the chance to…

Remember. Replay. Relive.

Brad Smith, a very talented NES programmer who’s already released a NES game called Lizard (which you definitely should check out) is handling the NES version as a lead programmer. For behind the scenes about the development as well as very nice pictures of pies, follow him on Twitter.

FAQ

I don’t have an NES! Can I purchase the ROM?

We’re aiming to release the ROM digitally eventually but we’re not sure when

Will you use battery backup for saving?

Yes, that’s the plan.

What mapper are you going to use?

We’re targetting iNES mapper 2 (UXROM) with 512k PRG-ROM, 8k PRG-RAM and horizontal nametables

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