Introduction
My entry for the Pico-8 1K Jam 2026. The final size was 998 compressed bytes hand minified.
As a master egg chef, you're job is to make sure the yolks are placed into the CENTER of each egg white, as each yolk is matched to an egg white, it will be removed until there are no eggs left to match.
Any match is worth +100 pts, any miss is -100 pts, the goal being the the highest score after matching 20 eggs.
To match an egg, as the yolk moves over the egg white, hit any key that is mapped by default.
Screenshots
Gameplay
Enjoy!
Mike
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A little roguelike shmup I made in under 12 hours! Hope it's not too buggy lol. Feel free to leave your high score and any feedback in the comments!
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Ho, ho, ho! Whether you call it the Advent Calendar or the Holiday Bundle, gathering together as a community to make games that reflect the joys and anxieties of the winter holiday season is a much beloved tradition among PICO-8 users and players. We've made so many great games over the years: 2025 2024 2023 2022 2021 2020 2019 2018.
This year we're inviting you to don your elf cap early and get to work making games and demos for the 2026 Advent Calendar. The games will be packaged in a special menu cart, the Advent Calendar, and released on the Lexaloffle BBS, one-a-day, throughout December. This high profile bundle is a great way to get your game noticed and played.
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My first game. A simple catch the snack game with a power-up and enemy to dodge. Based upon the lovely koala bear called Sausages.
Control him by pressing left and right to eat 25 snacks in the quickest time possible. Avoid the bird poops and eat mushrooms as they appear to get a temporary speed boost.
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A simple coroutines tutorial with some helpful lesser-known shortcuts. Enjoy.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hwj390zCgjg
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GIFs
Controls
⬅️➡️ - Move the target left and right
⬇️ - Faster drop rate (toggle)
⬆️ - Normal drop rate (toggle)
🅾️ / Z - Take a bite!
❎ / X - Savour (cash in the points)
The Perfect Bite!
The Perfect Bite! is a Tetris-like with a box and asks "what if you could just clear the screen whenever you want?" Points are earned by the number of food tiles in your mouth (i.e. the box) whenever you press ❎ but there's bonus points for a BIG bite (>8 tiles), a FULL bite (18 tiles), or a PERFECT bite (contains each of the 3 food blocks). Now reach for the high-score within the allotted time! Originally developed in 10 days by BlueTieCasual (me!) as part of the Falling Block jam 2026.
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PAL8TRO: a poker roguelike demake
hey all! this is PAL8TRO, a little poker roguelike inspired by Balatro. play poker hands, score chips × mult, beat the blind, then spend your winnings on mods in the shop. 8 antes, 10 bosses, 20 mods with pixelled portraits, hard mode, and my own rendition of the game soundtrack ( oh my gosh, this was honestly the hardest part).
it's a fan project, not affiliated with Balatro / LocalThunk.
desktop builds over at
taylonius.itch.io/pal8tro
(free if you like, or pay what you want. Baby needs a new pair o' shoes!)
v2.2: Balance Update
PAL8TRO has been rebalanced from top to bottom. Hand levels now boost both chips and mult, every mod is worth its slot, and the rare mods multiply your mult. Forges upgrade a whole rank, saved cash earns interest, and the bosses hit harder in new ways. It's tougher, fairer, and every choice matters. Good luck at the table!
feedback very welcome!
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Game
Summary
A tiny game where aliens done invaded the frontier, so it’s up to you to put the hurt on them! Gun down waves of otherworldly foes while gathering loot and trying to survive. Can you whip the invaders back into orbit or will The Wild West be taken?!
How To Play
(Tutorial Included in Game)
⬅️➡️-To Aim
⬆️-To Shoot
🅾️/Z/❎/X -To Move
Credits & Thank You
This game was originally made in about two weeks and was a study for me to better understand how aiming and turning would work in Pico-8. Initially I wasn't going to release it, but in order to gain hype for my larger upcoming release I've decided I should showcase some of my work! I thank you genuinely for playing my game and maybe for enjoying it. Have a good one!
—Sawwtooth Games
Video on Development
I also created a video detailing my findings while designing and developing the game you can find it here:
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Get to gren 2
a simple precision platformer
This is a little precision platformer I made in a weekend. It's my first PICO-8 game so please be understanding if there are bugs. The reason for the "2" in the name is that it's technically a sequel to my old scratch game "get to gren (platformer)"
Hope you enjoy! Feel free to leave your time and deaths at the end in the comments!
Heavily inspired by games like VVVVVV and You Have to Win the Game
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Cytovore
Under a microscope, a scientist discovers a strange new type of cell with an insatiable appetite called a 'Cytovore'.
How much can the 'Cytovore' eat while dodging a much larger predator programmed to hunt it down?
How to Play
- Eat the coloured cells displayed (+1 point)
- Wrong coloured cells slow you down (-1 point)
- Avoid the predator chasing you
- Use X to dash out of danger
- Eat all the small cells to advance
Controls
- Arrow keys - Move
- X - Dash
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Tiny little Mode 7 style racing game featuring Pico-8 Mascot Jelpi.
Features:
- Mode 7 style psuedo-3D graphics
- Simple racing physics
- Two unique tracks to race (beginner and advanced)
- Persistent top track times
Controls:
L/R------------Steer/Select Track
Z/C------------Start/Accelerate
X/V------------Brake/Reverse
Enter/P--------Return to Track Select
This is my first attempt at a racing game, let me know if the controls could take some tweaking, and feel free to post your best track times!
Entry for Pico1K Jam 2026 (1024 bytes of compressed code)
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Scopa is a traditional card game that my wife and I fell in love with when travelling through Italy.
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Hi,
I'm working on some kind of story game, where you start animations with the X/O buttons.
(in the cart, you can use left right to change the animation-loop, index 0 is "idle", index over 2 crash the game)
My Question is: Is there a common way to do move whole sprites around?
Tutorials I found are all about one sprite animation and not how to how to move the sprite in a loop, instead of players input via buttons. Might not know the search term.
I use an array of 8 frames that will manipulated a sspr() command.
The 8. index sets a new sprite-area, after the other frames are used to move the guy around.
foo bar = {{2,5}, {7,18}, {7,27}, {8,27}, {9,27}, {10,27}, {11,28}, {11,28, 18,80, 4,4, 0,0, 4,4, true,false} }
sspr( sx,sy, sw,sh, foobar[1][1],foobar[1][2], [dw,dh,flip_x,flip_y] ))
animation_box = {
{ {2,5}, {7,18}, {7,27}, {8,27}, {9,27}, {10,27}, {11,28}, {11,28, 18,80, 4,4, 0,0, 4,4, true,false} },
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Hello everyone!
This is my first PICO-8 game that I've created, and it's for my portfolio website! It's a super simple arcade-style keep-up game using my personal branding. The objective is to earn as many points as possible.
I may or may not come back and add music and more SFX, but we'll see.
Controls
- Use left and right arrow to move the couch
- Use X to have lazy dive downwards, which allows him to bounce higher
Notes:
- Every 5000 points nets you one extra life
- Bats spawn more frequently every minute and a half
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Acrisolar
Hi! I'm publishing Acrisolar, a Raycaster I made last year:
How to play:
- Z / C / 🅾️: Shoot / Press near doors to complete the level or destroy secret walls
- X / V / ❎: Change weapons
- Arrows: Move
Development:
If you're like me, interested in the dark magics of Raycaster engines, then I recommend Lodev and Permadi articles. Both are good places to start, but beware:
- Lodev's article will make some math-heavy steps that have subtleties that I would prefer explained. For example: I still don't understand the optimization that allows no-need for fisheye correction.
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