Life & fun · alternatives · 2026
24 alternatives to CrossPlay - Games, puzzles and tools for your e-reader
A fork of CrossPoint for the Xteink X4 Pro and the Seeed reTerminal Sticky. Games, flashcards and comics built for a screen whose talent is holding still, and two devices that find each other with nothing to configure.
CrossPlay is firmware for e-ink devices that adds games, puzzles, flashcards, and comics to the Xteink X4 Pro and Seeed reTerminal Sticky. Built for screens designed to display static content with minimal power… Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes.
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Hey HN, Over the past ~1.5 years, I built an open-source FPGA retro emulation handheld that can play Game Boy, Game Boy Color, and Game Boy Advance cartridges. To my knowledge, there isn't an existing open-source FPGA emulator that can play physical cartridges like this. One of my main goals was to do all of the pieces myself, and be able to understand every component of it, so I designed my own PCB, wrote the firmware, wrote a Game Boy and Game Boy Advance emulator for the FPGA (using the Chisel HDL), and designed a 3D-printed case. I detailed the design and development process in the…
2025 · eli.lipsitz.net · its alternatives →
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Papercraft videogame cartridges you can print and pirate with a copy machine. - kesiev/rewtro
2019 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Afterplay▲113We just launched the Afterplay Store. It lets you buy new retro games and start playing instantly in your browser, with no installs or setup. Here’s a quick demo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uoChUbaspbI We’re launching with publishers like Mega Cat Studios and Incube8, with more to come. The goal is to make retro games as easy to access as modern ones. Would love any feedback.
2023 · afterplay.io · its alternatives →
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Playnite▲69Provides one unified interface for your PC games
2019 · playnite.link · its alternatives →
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Hey HN, I hacked together this fun project that lets you play any article on the front page of Hacker News as an interactive text game. You can create a game about anything by going to infinityarcade.com/ You can also use a URL, which is what this page uses. The whole thing is open source: https://github.com/themaximal1st/InfinityArcade
2023 · infinityarcade.com · its alternatives →
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Mixed reality tabletop sandbox for XR on Quest & Vision Pro
May 2026 · boxtree.gg · its alternatives →
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cursor party▲79Hi HN, I challenged myself to build a multiplayer game in just 1 hour. My goal was to experience the distributed processing capabilities of Elixir and Phoenix LiveView firsthand by creating a simple web app. It allows everyone to see each other's cursors in real-time and fight a boss together. This is currently a beta version, and I plan to ship new features every week. It's deployed on Koyeb. I'd love to hear your feedback on the performance!
May 2026 · cursorparty.vercel.app · its alternatives →
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Flip square areas (2x2 or larger) to invert the colors. Make all tiles white to win.
Nov 2025 · unflipgame.com · its alternatives →
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As a fan of dense New York Times-style crosswords, I challenged myself to create topic-specific puzzles. It turns out that generating crosswords and efficiently placing words is a non-trivial computational problem. I started the project, "Joystick Jargon" combining traditional crossword elements with gaming-related vocabulary. Here's the technical process behind it: 1. Data Source: Used a 3.8 Million Rows Reddit dataset from Hugging Face (https://huggingface.co/datasets/webis/tldr-17). 2. Data Filtering: Narrowed down to gaming-related subreddits (r/gaming,…
2024 · its alternatives →
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Xenoball▲73Android game that a hybrid between Pool and Football
2021 · play.google.com · its alternatives →
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Flickgame▲68Your mouse is a crayon. Your browser is a wall. Draw stuff.
2015 · flickgame.org · its alternatives →
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Planet Crossword▲110Multiplayer crosswords for streaming and friends
2022 · hovercats.gg · its alternatives →
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Hello! Try out a 3x3 puzzle and click the question mark in the top right for a tutorial. I'd really appreciate any feedback! Thanks
2024 · slidecross.io · its alternatives →
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2017 · octalyzer.com · its alternatives →
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2020 · rahulrav.com · its alternatives →
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Crossy Road▲105Old school Frogger meets new school pixels.
2015 · crossyroad.com · its alternatives →
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