Jane Austen's 8-bit Adventure
A downloadable game
Classic literature meets classic gaming in Jane Austen's 8-bit Adventure! This 2D platformer stars Jane Austen, English novelist, who finds herself in an 8-bit video game. The game runs on real NES hardware from the 1980s, and on modern PCs - Windows, Mac, and Linux.
- Battle characters from Jane Austen's novels!
- Explore 8-bit England!
- Defeat enemies with a quill!
- Restore Miss Austen's books to the 8-bit library!
A pre-release demo build is available now - download it below! The zip file includes both a NES ROM and a Windows executable. This demo lets you play the first two stages of the game.
The full version of the game is in development. We hope to release it later this year (2023).
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What's new in demo build 0487?
What's new in demo build 0486?
I'm really impressed with the PC version! It's written from "scratch" (not emulated) right?
Thanks! That's right - it isn't emulation. The PC version is written in C, and uses a custom NES-like API, which in turn uses SDL2 for cross-platform I/O abstraction. I've been working on the NES and PC versions in parallel from the start.