Dead Weight
The Princess has been kidnapped! Go save her, using your fabulous witch powers!
Written for NES Jam 2025, theme "SAVE THE PRINCESS". The idea of this jam is that we write a game with the look and feel of the NES. I should point out: This game is not in fact running on an NES, it's thoroughly modern under the hood.
Updated since the jam: Now there's "16-bit" mode with nicer (non-NES-style graphics), and a new synthesizer (somewhat NES-believable).
Controls: WASD+Space+Comma, Arrows+Z+X, Gamepad.
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I played this for half an hour nonstop. This is literally better than some real NES games
Nice work! :D
i need the nes rom of this.
Ha ha, I wish! It’s running in WebAssembly (with WebGL for video and WebAudio for audio), alas not an actual NES. :(
WebAssembly? So you didnt use a game engine?
Mmm depends on semantics… I used an engine that I’ve been writing over the last year and a half or so. (and others are welcome to it too, it’s 100% free!) https://github.com/aksommerville/egg
sheesh