8 Things

A black cat, a rainy night, and eight things to light in every phase.

8 Things is a short, quiet pixel-art platformer. Eight phases, from a haunted yard in the rain to the morning after, and a little film at the end. In each place, eight things have gone dark. The cat lights them one by one, and the world changes: the house becomes a dream, the dream sinks into the sea, the sea becomes a music box, and so on until dawn.

The eight phases

• 8 Pumpkins · the haunted yard
• 8 Candles · inside the house, with things to knock off the shelves
• 8 Stars · the dream, where holding jump makes you float
• 8 Fish · the house at the bottom of the sea: swim
• 8 Notes · inside a music box, where everything moves to the beat
• 8 Crumbs · the kitchen, when you are the size of a mouse: crawl
• 8 Feathers · inside the storm: glide on the wind
• 8 Sunbeams · the morning after the rain: nap in every patch of sun

Every phase has three secrets.

Controls

• ← → walk · Shift run
• Space jump (hold to go higher) · ↑ jump, climb curtains and ladders
• ↓ sit · with jump, drop from branches and trapdoors
• M meow · Esc pause

Works with a gamepad, and on phones with on-screen buttons (landscape). Your progress is saved in the browser.

English and Portuguese: switch with the Language button on the title screen. Effects: gentle in the menu makes the lightning weaker and removes the dream wobble, for anyone sensitive to flashes and motion.

Made by hand, pixel by pixel

8 Things runs on its own engine, in plain JavaScript, with no libraries. The screen is 480 × 270; light is computed per pixel and held to a fixed palette, for the look of a diorama: warm candlelight against the cold night. Every place is built in code, the music is synthesised live in the browser, and the film at the end is the game itself playing each phase.

A game by Flávio Henrique Bonfim, made with the help of Claude, in the world of Hallows Rain.

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Em português: um gato preto, uma noite de chuva e oito coisas para acender em cada fase. Um jogo de plataforma em pixel art, curto e tranquilo: oito fases, do quintal assombrado na chuva até a manhã seguinte, e um filminho no fim. O jogo está em português e em inglês; o botão Idioma troca na hora.