Professional Development Studio

Bitmask Games is not only a place where students can come to learn about game development, it is also a professional studio producing commercial content. Here, we create new games for multiple systems, software that helps others create their own games, game publishing, and even can produce your vision for a game. Here are some of the projects in development at the studio.

NESmaker

Probably the project that the studio is most known for is NESmaker, which is our software for creating new games for legacy systems like the original 8-bit Nintendo Entertainment system. This software has grown to over 10,000 users in countries all around the world, and has been the development environment for hundreds of games, available on real cartridge and modern platforms such as Steam and Switch.

You can find out more about NESmaker at www.TheNew8bitHeroes.com

Mystic Searches

This is an ambitious adventure game for the original 8-bit Nintendo Entertainment System, and was the progenitor of NESmaker. After finding illustrations for a game created in my youth, I set out to create it as I'd envisioned all the way back in 1988. It required development of specialized tools, formerly called the Mystic Searches Screen Tool and Game Engine, which eventually became NESmaker.

You can find information about Mystic Searches at www.MysticSearches.com.

Haunts

Haunts is a fun macabre game targeting a release on the Switch as well as Steam. You play as one of a few different types of creative who is mining a mysterious portal in a spooky mansion which is a crack in a dangerous netherworld where one can mine dark art fuel in order to create great art.