Egg Catcher LCD fox, title and chickens in a pixel-art farm scene
Lab product · Garmin Connect IQ

Egg Catcher LCD

A four-lane pocket arcade built for modern Garmin watches.

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Platform
Garmin Connect IQ
Controls
Buttons + touch
Builds
44 device variants
Works
Fully offline
The short answer

Classic LCD rhythm, rebuilt for a watch

Move the fox's basket between four positions, catch the eggs, protect three lives, and chase a new high score as the pace increases.

Original nostalgia

The game borrows the immediate rhythm and four-position logic people remember from pocket LCD toys, but its world is original: a fox protagonist, new pixel art, a new interface, and mechanics tuned for Garmin hardware.

Mechanics that reveal themselves

The first seconds are deliberately readable. Then the interval between moves shrinks, lower eggs follow a small arc instead of a straight line, and a second egg can enter play after the first five catches. The game becomes harder without adding rules the player has to study.

Designed for two kinds of display

AMOLED rewards color; transflective MIP screens reward contrast. The same scene had to survive both. We enlarged critical outlines, darkened spent lives, removed decorative trajectory lines, and tested the result on a fēnix 7X Pro Solar and a vívoactive 6.

Watch-native interaction

Five physical buttons are enough for the complete game: four basket positions and a dedicated pause/menu action. Touch works on compatible models, the Light button remains a system control, and the help screen explains everything without sending the player to a manual.

Built and submitted

Version 1.0 is built in Monkey C for Garmin Connect IQ and submitted for store review. The game runs offline, stores the best score locally, and ships as 44 device-specific variants for current round Garmin watches.

  • Garmin Connect IQ
  • Monkey C
  • SDK 9.2
  • MIP + AMOLED
  • MIT code license
  • Protected visual assets
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