Eight: GBA Edition

A jumping spider. A house. Eight clues. Now on the Game Boy Advance.

The original Pico-8 version was made for the 31ween Game Jam 2026.
🏆 Voted best game of the jam - official announcement.

Eight is a jumping spider. She spins no web: she stalks, she leaps, and she trails a line of silk she can climb back up. Through her eight eyes, a quiet house has become a crime scene: four rooms, two people, and eight clues that point to something on Friday night.

Eight: GBA Edition is the full game from the PICO-8 original, rebuilt for the Game Boy Advance, with more to find and more to come back to.

New in this edition

• A wider eye: the fisheye view framed in fur, the house fading into the dark at its rim
• Eight's thoughts in a bubble: a question mark when a clue is near, a fly when she's hungry
• A journal to reread every clue you've found
• Three hidden notes for the curious
• The Friday challenge: Friday night against the clock, with your best time kept
• Battery save: continue where you left off, with clues, notes and endings tracked
• A new title theme and stereo sound
• A bright-screen option for the original, unlit GBA

Controls

• D-pad walk and turn
• L / R step sideways
• Hold A aim the front eyes, release to leap
• B climb back up your silk, or drop from a ceiling
• Start pause  ·  Select journal
• A + B + Start + Select soft reset

Try it first

The bedroom is free as a demo: both of its clues, its hidden note, and everything Eight can do.

Runs on

GBA emulators (tested in mGBA, and in Manic EMU on iOS) and real hardware through a flash cart. The game saves to battery-backed SRAM.

Content note

A domestic murder mystery. Poisoning and a forged suicide note are part of the story.

The PICO-8 original is free to play in your browser: Eight.

A game by farjer. Memento salvare.
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