Demake86 is out now, and I am excited to go to sleep. This past week has been nonstop crunch to get this project complete and ready to share.

Please enjoy Demake86, the Legally Distinct Action Adventure Platforming Game set on a METEOROID, developed using absolutely no AI.

Sometime around Metroid's 35th birthday I started kicking around a thought: What if you took the original NES Metroid, and you condensed it into a tiny tiny space? The conceit is this: Fit the game into the space of 8^6 pixels. 8x8 pixels per tile, 8x8 tiles per room, 8x8 rooms inside the Meteoroid. 

That idea is what became Demake86. It's a tiny, unforgiving, and legally distinct. It's an homage to the original NES Metroid. Demake86 is not exactly a remake, but it also isn't really a demake. I'm a game developer, not a name developer, sue me!

BTW, I've made this using absolutely zero AI for any part of the project, taking an even stronger anti-AI stance than already I do in my day-to-day life. I've been working on these ideas since 2016, this game in some form since 2021, and the game in its current form since 2024. Learning resources, like other peoples "I need help" posts on StackOverflow or Reddit, have really dried up since then. Even simple things like figuring out how to make an outline shader have had me scrambling for informational scraps.

I've also opted not to use or reference most of the music. This is an intentional auditory design decision around the interplay of sound and silence. It is also because Nintendo's lawyers are very, very scary, and I am very very bad at music.

This has also been a labor of blood, sweat, and tears. Yeah, those are the primary bodily fluids I would associate with this game. Except, my eyes  have dried up from how much they've been open, so I'm using artificial tears nowadays.

Please enjoy!

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