Uploaded December 2020 | Updated September 2026, 1 week ago

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Alwa's Awakening for the NES
eldenpixels.com/alwas-awakening-nes

This is the first part of a making-of series for Alwa's Awakening NES. In this episode we discuss how the maps and background art will work.

For more information on NES backgrounds, here are two making-of articles for my earlier game Lizard:

1. My lizard is the Lizard of Tile Maps
kickstarter.com/projects/1101008925/lizard/posts/1186332

2. My lizard is the Lizard of NES Scrolling
kickstarter.com/projects/1101008925/lizard/posts/1820518

Chapters:
0:00 Prelude
0:25 Map Editor
0:44 Hardware
3:29 Tile Conversion
5:06 Compression
7:16 Coda