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[Game Boy Color] Double Duck

Published at May 17, 2026 ·  1 min read

Double Duck Double Duck is a puzzle-platformer for Game Boy Color featuring a unique dual-character mechanic. Control two linked ducks simultaneously: Mars, the green duck, and Phobos, the purple duck. The two always stay at a fixed distance from each other, even if one of them ends up suspended in mid-air. Rotate Phobos around Mars clockwise with the B button, even through walls and solid terrain, to overcome obstacles. More info & Download : https://tardigrade-nx....

[Game Boy] GameOfLifeKuzushi

Published at August 10, 2025 ·  1 min read

Game Of Life Kusushi Game of Life Kuzushi is a homebrew game for Game Boy, that mixes Conway’s Game of Life, with a block breaker game. Unlike in regular block breaker games, here cells evolve periodically, following Conway’s Game of Life rules: Any live cell with two or three live neighbors lives on to the next generation. Any live cell with fewer than two or more than three live neighbors dies....

[Game Boy Advance] Discrete Orange

Published at August 17, 2024 ·  1 min read

Discrete Orange Discrete Orange is a homebrew game, for the Game Boy Advance. It’s a turn-based puzzle-platformer, with discrete movement. More info & Download : https://tardigrade-nx.itch.io/discrete-orange Trailer : Screenshots :...

[Game Boy] Logic Island

Published at June 27, 2023 ·  3 min read

Logic Island Logic Island is my first homebrew game for the original Game Boy, yay! Download : https://tardigrade-nx.itch.io/logic-island Logic Island a Picross-like logic puzzle game for the original Game Boy, inspired by Nikoli’s Nurikabe. Nurikabe is one of my favorite games of all times. This is my version of it, with graphics hopefully a little more elaborate than a simple grid. The rules may not be as simple as Picross at first, but it’s worth it: once you know how to play, the game becomes very addictive, with a lot of depth and strategies to offer....

[Retro] RetroAchievements

Published at January 7, 2023 ·  1 min read

RetroAchievements https://retroachievements.org/ is a zero profit community who collaborate and compete to earn custom-made achievements in classic games through emulation. Achievements are made by and for the community. I’m a RetroAchievements user and developer. Here is my RetroAchievements page: https://retroachievements.org/user/Tardigrade Here are the RetroAchievements sets I’ve created: https://retroachievements.org/gameList.php?d=Tardigrade ...

[Android] The Pawn

Published at September 25, 2021 ·  1 min read

The Pawn The Pawn is an original puzzle game for Android, inspired by chess. You don’t need to know the rules of Chess to play, as it is quite different. Tap to move, one square at a time. Move onto another friend piece to change into it. Change into the king to win. Move onto an enemy piece to knock it out. Each piece has a different move set, indicated by arrows....

[RG351] 351Files

Published at July 3, 2021 ·  1 min read

351Files 351Files is a single panel file manager, tailored for Anbernic 351 devices: RG351V and RG351P. It can be easily adapted to any Linux-based device. Based on DinguxCommander. Features Single panel file manager Copy, move, rename, delete, create directories and files. Display file size, compute directory size Text file viewer Text file editor Image viewer (original size or fit screen, next / previous image) Github page : https://github.com/Tardigrade-nx/351Files Releases : https://github....

[Nintendo Switch] Tatanga

Published at July 25, 2019 ·  1 min read

Tatanga A prototype for a 2D platformer based on Newton’s law of universal gravitation. Github page : https://github.com/Tardigrade-nx/Tatanga Vidéo : https://youtu.be/BflQidQx_wo...

[Nintendo Switch] SlitherlinkNX

Published at October 26, 2018 ·  1 min read

SlitherlinkNX Slitherlink is a logic puzzle game created in 1989 by Japanese publisher Nikoli, famous for creating Sudoku, among many other puzzle games. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slitherlink for more info. I discovered the game a few years ago on the Nintendo DS with ‘Puzzle Series Vol. 5: Slitherlink’, which was never released outside of Japan. It’s such a good game I grew addicted to it, just like with Picross and Nurikabe. This is my version of the game for the Nintendo Switch....

[Dingoo] DinguxCommander

Published at February 5, 2011 ·  1 min read

DinguxCommander DinguxCommander is a dual-panel file manager for Dingoo A320 (Dingux). Download: DinguxCommander_v2.1.tar.gz Source: DinguxCommander_v2.1_src.tar.gz Features: Copy, move and delete multiple files. View a file Execute a file Rename a file/dir Create a new directory Display disk space used by a list of selected files/dirs Display disk information (used, available) For more information, see file README.txt....