Scyphon

My entry for the December 2025 The Eye Jam.

THEME : Descent

A short, minimalistic and somewhat basic endless runner made in PICO-8 over the course of a week.

It is the time of harvest & the Scyphon has returned to Earth to collect the fruit of its labour. How deep can you get & how long can you hold out against the Scyphon before the inevitable becomes inevitable...

Created by Craig Hupin (aka. Althar93) using the PICO-8. All code, art, sounds & music is original & made during the jam.

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Playable on the keyboard or with a game controller :

• Move : Left+Right Arrows / Left+Right stick
• Jump : Circle Button / Z / C / N
  
• Duck : Down Arrow / Down stick
• Shoot : Cross button / X / V / M

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Version history :

• v1.0.2
  • Fixed out-of-bounds map being rendered
  • Changed scoring from time to depth
• v1.0.1
  • Fixed occasional crash on bullets being destroyed
• v1.0
  • Initial version