Uploaded October 2021 | Updated September 2026, 1 week ago

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

This is the second part of a making-of series for Alwa's Awakening NES. In this episode we discuss sprites, which are used to create animated characters for the game.

For more information on NES sprites, here is a making-of article from my earlier game Lizard:
My lizard is the Lizard of NES Sprite Rendering
kickstarter.com/projects/1101008925/lizard/posts/1582636

Chapters:
00:00 Prelude
00:39 Hardware
02:03 Colours
06:08 Flickering
09:08 Memory
13:13 Secret Walls
14:47 Coda