Byte-Off 4 Has now completed. Our very own game “Land-Ahoy!”  Won the “Wombat” award. The full award show can be seen HERE And the winners are listed below:

Best art: The Adventures of Panzer – Frontiers
(runner-up: Delta 9)

Best music/SFX: Zapp & Zapper
(runners-up: EV Cruising, Skybound Quest)

Best narrative: Crater Song
(runners up: The New Adventures of Black Cat, Delta 9)

Best package: Spacin’ Gators
(runners up: Carmilla, 8 Bit Brix)

Best Character: The Adventures of Panzer – Frontiers
(runners up: Delta 9, Exophage)

The Emissary: Substation 7
(runners up: Dragon Raid, The Fantasy Legend)

The Wombat: Land Ahoy!

Player’s Choice: Midnight Zone

Best Game: Pizza Portals
(runners up: Delta 9, The Adventures of Panzer – Frontiers)

The Semi-Annual Byte-Off competition has officially kicked off! The theme this year will be “New Frontiers”. As in the past, it’s a theme thats open to wide interpretation, So I look forward to seeing what people come up with. Good luck to everyone who enters!

A teaser image was posted on Facebook by NesMaker co-creator Joe Granato with no context. The image is likely hinting at a possible futuristic style to the Byte-off 4 competition in the new year. View the Full post HERE. Past Competitions have lead to some very fun and innovative game ideas, some of which have received full commercial releases.

While some people are content to sit back and wait for the (as of yet, not fully announced) new version of NESMaker to drop before developing anything new, nesmakers.com forum member kevin81 just dropped a pretty interesting script tutorial on implementing zapper support to the NESmaker tool.  Early reports are favorable that it works well, so hopefully we can all look forward to some great new ideas down the line. It should be noted, that if you are playing games through hardware and not an emulator, the zapper is designed to only work with a CRT output, and will not function with an LCD TV/Monitor.

CLICK HERE to view his tutorial and get started on your own zapper game!

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