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Alwa's Awakening
Developer Elden Pixels
Alwa's Awakening is a 2017 Metroidvania video game developed and published by Swedish studio Elden Pixels. From Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)
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37 of 37 · most liked firstHappy anniversary Alwa's Awakening! It was 8 (!!) years ago we released the game and it's still going strong. On Steam the sales have been steady since since the day we released it and it keeps selling. I would love to make Alwa 3 some day. Have you played the Alwa's Awakening?
unlabelledView post →If Super Sunny World🌞 had a physical pixel art figure for the game, similar to what Alwa's Awakening did... Which pose would you prefer? Standing? Jumping? Ducking? Something else? Comment Below! 👇🗳
unlabelledView post →Despite my growing Evercade collection, Alwa's Awakening has the distinction of being the first Evercade game I actually finished! I really enjoyed it. I might try the sequel on Steam.
unlabelledView post →Yesterday's Lospec #pixel_dailies #pixelart prompt was *mystical* with a really funky palette -- lospec.com/palette-list... -- did a version of the sea monk shrine from a rad pixel art game called *Alwa's Awakening* here. Had a blast, I loooooove making a tileset/mockup in the NES style.
unlabelledView post →Alwa's Awakening turns 8 years old today! This was my first commercial game as a programmer. What a journey that was! A lot of memories and fun milestones that I still remember clearly to this day!
unlabelledView post →#AprilSpins Day 20 - a green record: Alwa's Awakening OST (2020) by Robert Kreese. Lovely soundtrack to a great Metroidvania-style game. Apparently this record was limited to 250 copies (?) so I'm happy I was able to find one.
unlabelledView post →ALWA'S AWAKENING THE 8-BIT EDITION: ⭐⭐⭐⭐ Where Ufouria had flavor, Alwa has depth. An incredible technical achievement for the NES, with some really good pixel art, a huge world and lots of puzzle-platforming. Either version comes recommended to fans of You Have To Win The Game or VVVVVV. #NESäkuu
unlabelledView post →Finished Alwa's Awakening for the NES last night & what a delight the game was! If you haven't gotten your hands on a copy I highly advise you pick it up. Fun Metroid-style game! Shoutout to @brad.rainwarrior.ca @drmoocowz.bsky.social and jordigh for the raids last night! :) Not sure what's next.. 🤔
unlabelledView post →Did my part ✋. Together with Micro Mages (also available on Broke Studios website) and Alwa's Awakening the best new NES game I played. Can't wait to play both coop with my sons! My review here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=apRX...
unlabelledView post →Zoe from Alwa’s Awakening. A neat little game I found on the switch eshop a while back. #alwasawakening #zoe #pixelart
unlabelledView post →I have only played Borderlands 2, Torchlight 2, Guild Wars 2, and Alwa's Awakening yet. It may get worse with some games, but the tricky part was to guess IF I want the Linux version of the game. Both Borderlands 2 and Torchlight 2 have long-not-updated Linux versions that are missing updates.
unlabelledView post →I just discovered this fantastic NES platformer called Sam's Journey, which is an upgraded version of another late-in-the-life Commodore 64 game made by fans. The graphics are gorgeous, very much on the level of Kirby's Adventure or Alwa's Awakening. #nes #homebrew #samsjourney #c64 #retrogaming
unlabelledView post →here's a little fact about me: I playtested two commercial games. First was Alwa's Awakening The 8-Bit Edition, you can find my name on Elden Pixels' website. Second was A Void Hope from the same company, you can find my name in the in-game credits. I think I did good on that last one. FACT OVER.
unlabelledView post →Just beat Alwa's Awakening on Evercade. Good game. Its the NES version which made looking for help online hard as most walkthroughs are of the version on Steam, but overal didn't need a lot of guidance. Decent metroidvania. Don't ask me how many times I died.
unlabelledView post →I beat Alwa's Awakening Final Stats --- Time: 09:21 Orbs: 99/99 Map: 98% Items: 100% Death Count: 44 It was a good game! I really liked the platforming, puzzles and exploration. Thanks for coming to my stream. = ' ~ ' =
unlabelledView post →The third part is out and the exploring continues! However, I'm not sure if I'll finish it, as I'm already realising how my focus is shifting to other things (maybe 2 more videos). But that says nothing about the quality of the game, Alwa's Awakening is a great game all round! #nes
unlabelledView post →7. Alwa's Legacy I played the previous game (Alwa's Awakening) which was in an 8 bit style, and this one looks 16 bit. Makes it feel like they were some lost NES/SNES series, which is cool!
unlabelledView post →Now that Alwa's Awakening is done, the next indie game on the block is Squeakross. Because I had an itch to play picross again lately.
unlabelledView post →Alwa's Awakening - 13 Why Do These Games Do This http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tts_hvAqRME&ab_channel=GHostLPs #GHostLPs #AlwasAwakening #EldenPixels #Metroidvania
unlabelledView post →#gaming update started playing #AlwasAwakening. I'm pretty far into it. it's a very nice non-linear exploration game (#metroidvania) with strong interconnection between areas. leans on the more difficult side. also started playing #RelayerAdvanced. strategy RPG kind of thing. strong art and music. i've only played the tutorial battles so far though since it's very resource-heavy, at least for my laptop which runs quite hot when i'm playing it. also, the English voice acting is okay but too…
unlabelledView post →@NoSoloBot A rather fun Metroidvania check out the first part of my playthrough here : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HMGeoUeYtBo #AlwasAwakening #EldenPixels #Metroidvania
unlabelledView post →🪶✨️Rise and dearest Feathers ✨️🪶 With The Outer Worlds finished up, I was thinking about what game(s) to play next on stream. Possible games: ¤ Portal ¤ Dead Cells ¤ Octopath Traveler ¤ Unbound World's Apart ¤ Alwa's Awakening ¤ Cuphead Sending the best of vibes 😁
unlabelledView post →Playing Animal Well reminds me a lot of Alwa's Awakening in how the game is just asking you to sequence break it with the abilities.
unlabelledView post →Yaaaaaaaay, so excited for @rainwarrior he's going to be making another NES game, #AlwasAwakening is coming to a cartridge! Great day for #NESdev! https://eldenpixels.com/alwas-awakening-nes/
unlabelledView post →Light and breezy 2d 'vania with colorful pixel art. The previous game, Alwa's Awakening, is very good too! store.steampowered.com/app/1205900/...
unlabelledView post →Alwa's Awakening 🫶🏾 retroachievements.org/game/17952
unlabelledView post →DAY 8: Dungeon BGM www.youtube.com/watch?v=PHFk... Alwa's Awakening - Void Tower a surprisingly catchy tune from a surprisingly catchy game. there's not a lot to say about this one; it's just an uncomplicated bop.
unlabelledView post →Zoe from Alwa's Awakening/Alwa's Legacy. I like drawing obscure video game characters.
unlabelledView post →While Alwa's Awakening isn't as hot of a video game(It's alright), Alwa's Legacy is a far better Metroidvania that improves on the original. If you do get Alwa's Colelction, give Alwa's Legacy a try.
unlabelledView post →So @microsoft.com wants me to enter a Customer Contact phone number for us to still have Alwa's Awakening available on Xbox One. Can't wait for someone to call me when they get stuck on a temple somewhere in the game.
unlabelledView post →1. Alwa's Awakening NES was the game that made me think of doing something with a static camera and square aspect ratio. That simple approach unlocked the whole project for me!
unlabelledView post →Just finished Alwa's Awakening on Steam. 8bit style metroidvania. Nice and tight little game, really enjoyed it.
unlabelledView post →More Alwa's Awakening! Can we beat the game tonight?
unlabelledView post →One interesting thing that came up tonight during our stream of #AlwasAwakening is that @rainwarrior had to reverse engineer the movement of a boss by examining the original motion frame by frame and replicating it with quadratic #Bézier curves in NES hardware. Aside from the theoretical interest of doing Bézier calculations on the NES, I found it very interesting that reverse engineering was needed at all. This is because the "source" is in Unity
unlabelledView post →I have to wait ONE WHOLE WEEK before I can play #AlwasAwakening again so now I'm doing that thing again where I am just reading the manual over and over again to hold me off. https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/780996997905514498/983023774905532416/Alwas_Awakening_8Bit_Edition_Instruction_Manual.pdf The artwork is so cute! I really like how with retro games you get the artwork twice: once in the manual, once in pixels. It's a twofer!
unlabelledView post →I'm a little sad I can't tell people to buy physical copies of the game anymore, but at least there will be a ROM release of #AlwasAwakening coming soon.
unlabelledView post →I don't even want to open it yet. I think I'll open it when I play it on stream. #AlwasAwakening
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