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The Byte-Off is a month long game development competition where NESmaker users create brand new proofs of concept for all new demos for the original Nintendo Entertainment System.  It is open to all skill levels, and has awards in many different categories, celebrating our growing community's broad and deep creative abilities!  If you want to begin creating NES games, check out www.TheNew8bitHeroes.com to find out how you can get started.

You are invited to participate and submit an entry to this year's Byte-Off no matter what your skill level is.  The competition is as much about collaboration, and the community fully rallies behind each others' projects, some of which go on to become full games.

You can upload project zips here.  For instructions on how to export your project from NESmaker, please see this video.


Submissions(49)

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A platform adventure starring a duck.
Platformer
"Slide-and-Slash" NES Game for the ByteOff! 2020 Game Jam
Action
Answer the Call of the Void in a subaquatic side-scrolling shooter for the NES!
Shooter
Action wrestling NES game for the NESmaker Byte-off 2020
Action
Top down wild west adventure for the NES!
Adventure
Rogue-like Horror game for Byte-Off 2020
Survival
Did you know??? "Kill screens" were very popular with classic arcade and console games!
Platformer
Play in browser
Life can change in a single blink...
Adventure
Nesmaker's Byte Off 2 Entry 2022 (Best Game and Best Narrative Award)
Role Playing
baardbi's ByteOff 2020 entry
Adventure
Blast BAD MOODS and bring back Rainbows with SPARKLE PANDA RAINBOW HUNTER !
Platformer
Save the Balance of Time from the Forces of Evil
Shooter
"Drafted" into a fighting competation against his will, does he have what it takes to survive?
Fighting
An undersea adventure!
Adventure
Nari the Fox! He eats the power ups, kills the baddies, and dances to the next level!
Action
A Demo of a Space adventure game for the NES.
Action
Alternative History Adventure in 8bits
Adventure
A small NES Puzzle Platformer
Puzzle
Do you have what it takes to go Zack in Time?
Platformer
Space adventure full of wonder and nostalgia
Adventure
Give the performance of a lifetime!
Adventure
NesMaker Game. A work in progress meant for Byte-Off 2020
Adventure
Can you defeat Hydro and save the birthdays!?
Platformer
Play as Otto, a human cyborg on a mission to save the universe from a time freeze.
Puzzle
Explore the lost caves!
Platformer
A special (and especially short) demo for the world's first serialized NES series, ALLISON OF ASTRA!
Adventure
A NES Game where Adam discovers his fate.
Adventure
​The one-second action platformer!
Platformer
The story of an elf who wakes up one day to a very different North Pole and the adventure of his life about to begin.
Adventure
Fight for the most important thing: Fight for Breakfast.
Fighting
"if its not fun why bother"
Platformer
A simple Adventure game submission for Byte-Off 2020
Adventure
Can you solve The Magnilo Case?
Adventure