Fang the Fox for Game Boy Color – Tiny Bit Adventures

The whole adventure, on a Game Boy Color.

Fang the Fox is a real Game Boy Color game now. Every island, boss, friend and puzzle from the browser version is here, redrawn for the Game Boy Color and scored with the Tiny Bit Adventures album, recreated for its four sound channels.

A Retroid Pocket on a desk at night, showing Fang the Fox's title screen: Fang on a floating island under the moon — On a Retroid Pocket.

Play it on a handheld, an emulator or right here.

Download the ROM and open it in any Game Boy Color emulator: RetroArch with the Gambatte, SameBoy or mGBA core on a handheld or phone, or mGBA or SameBoy on a computer. It saves to the cartridge, like the real thing. Or press Start above to play it in your browser.

The Game Boy Color title screen: Fang on a floating island in the night sky

Fang at home, with Grandma by the cottage, a chest and fish on the grass

Made for the Game Boy Color.

Each island keeps the browser game’s night in its colours, while lava, crystals and portals glow. Fang’s cottage, the Hearth, Hoot’s tower and Rudy’s tent stand on their islands. The pause screen has a world map, your quest, Fang’s stats and perks, and a sound test. Hold Select to see the whole island at once.

The pause screen world map, with the islands Fang has seen

The Volcanic Dragon and fire spirits among rivers of lava

Written in C by Opus 5.5.

I’ve never written a line of C. Read how Opus 5.5 built it in a day. The source is on GitHub under the MIT license; the music isn’t covered by it.