My entry for the 1k jam! Zap stuff, get points, you know the drill. Thanks to my love Bekah for coming up with a great title. Inspired by https://www.lexaloffle.com/bbs/?pid=195760#p
1023 compressed bytes without the cartridge tags!

1024 bytes game for pico-1k jam 2026
← ↑ ↓ → - move
Z - start
Collect items and avoid your shadows

This is my first foray into development using Pico-8, I enjoyed it a lot!
I tried to give the game a couple Easter eggs and oddities, to give it a slightly different flavour from other minesweeper clones.
Controls:
Arrow Keys - movement
C - Reveal a square // Chording // Confirm
X - Toggle flag
The mouse controls are as you'd expect.
(Player 2's controls are Pico-8's defaults)
For the Name menu, you can change letters using the Up and Down keys, and move between character positions using Right and Left.
Features:
Click on Yeller (the smiley face) in the upper right of the board, he'll give you a hint that might be useful.
a little ball physics/particles toy with a bit of customizability
you can open the menu with the mouse scroll wheel, where you can toggle things like the white ball (i call it the ship lol), friction, ball respawning (endless), ball respawning with velocity (auto)
there are also some visuals you can adjust, those being the screen scale, screen shake, particles, and whether or not the game unfocuses when you click off of it
since the screenshake shakes the entire window instead of just the screen inside it, there is some jank when it comes to window positioning. if the program ends up in a different spot in your tooltray than you left it, try pressing r/middle mouse to reset the balls and it should save its current position for the future

a 4-in-1 block game bundle including tetris, panel de pon, puyo puyo, and dr mario
controls :
overall:
1/2/3/4 - select game
scrollwheel - change screen size
m - toggle sfx
r - restart game
tetris, puyo puyo, dr mario:
ad/left&right arrowkey - move
w/up arrowkey - hard drop
s/down arrowkey - soft drop
fg/zx - rotate
panel de pon:
wasd/arrowkeys - move cursor
f/z - swap
g/x - raise



survival1k
hello!
this is the game where you fight enemies, level up and uhhh.. that's it?
CONTROLS:
- LUDR - move
- Z - drink water
- X - attack
QUICK MANUAL:
- you need to drink water or you'll start to lose hp
- there's 2 types of enemies - passive ( just wander around ), and aggressive ( chase you and damage )
- as you kill more and more enemies, you'll level up, dealing even more damage
- this game is in-dev right now, i plan to add more features if i can ( 1k is not a joke :| )
TRIVIA:
- i used shrinko8 to compress the game, deobfuscated is ~2.2k. now its 1024 bytes ( PHEW... )
- you can give ideas on how could i improve the game, perhaps even do less bytes
copy of pancelor's wonderful "make ten" for my tooltray (https://www.lexaloffle.com/bbs/?tid=142209)
controls:
hold lmb + drag - select digits
r - reset board (or lmb on bottom screen wavy text after time's up)
m - toggle sfx
scrollwheel/arrowkeys - change screen size

Did not expect to spend so long on this.
Waveform visualizer by Colin The Newmaker:
https://www.lexaloffle.com/bbs/?tid=149602
Original track by Toby Fox all rights reserved uhhhhhhhhhhhh yeah



A nsfw/fetish-based comedy game for the Heavy Weight game jam.
Obviously won't be to everyone's taste but I'm proud of the fakey-mcfakerson "physics" and the coroutine-based cutscene system so hearfelt thankyou to any brave souls who check it out.
Currently open to any feedback/ideas about how to add more variety and challenge into the levels.

This is a small(ish) game I made to test the flow and function of a bigger game I have planned; "Ifrinn". The bigger version won't be made in Pico-8 though, I just happened to start messing with the engine when I had the idea to make this smaller version.
If you enjoyed this, keep an eye out on Steam for when the full version of "Ifrinn" comes, it's gonna be BIGGER and BETTER than this one! (Twice the dice, twice the FUN!)
Also, if you're feeling generous, feel free to support this game on Itch.io! You'll get a downloadable copy of this game and its soundtrack, AND the proceeds will go towards the development of the full game!
(You don't have to pay to get the download if you don't want to, though)
NOVA STRIKE ( v1.1.4 )
Typical wave shooter, first attempt at a pico-8 game. Takes some inspiration from Galaxian for Atari
Not the best at music, first go in the editor so apologies in advance! You can turn it off in options though :)
What YOU Can Do:
- Shoot stuff
- Grab power-ups that drop (I have shields even, your welcome)
- Bombs for mass clearing of enemies (you can get extra from drops)
- There's a few bosses as Galaxian had a few bosses
- Roguelike-ish with upgrades every few stages w/shop-rerolls
- Unlock new ships by playing stages and resume from where you left off for a casual-experience :)
Features:
- Infinite gameplay
- UI Menu with options, credits, and high scores :D
- Rocketship character
Community Feedback/Tips appreciated!
Note that I am quite close to my limit even with shrinko8 and do not want this to be a multicart title.
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