Lun Res 1k (Pico-8)

An essential demake of Lunar Rescue in 1024 bytes by Heracleum

A Pico-8 game in 1024 compressed characters, created for Pico-1K Jam 2025 in less than 48 hours.

Pico-8 Edu source code here.

Lun Res 1K is a demake of the old arcade game "Lunar Rescue" (Taito 1979) except I have the constraint of 1024 bytes so I necessarily had to cut a few features: only one landing pad is shown at a time, enemy ships don't fire, you can't fire, nobody fires... it's a very pacifist and colourful game.

A couple notable features though:

• pixel perfect collisions

• no instant crash: damage depends on penetration upon impact

• 1-bit graphics recolouring (just like the original)

Play, here

Source: https://heracleum.itch.io/lun-res-1k