New release! New UI, new games, new screenshot format, and blazing-fast multiplayer.

github.com/firefly-zero...

#firefly #release #retro #handheld #emulator

We're going to #hackfest! It's a small cozy conference this Saturday in #Enschede, a small city on the east of Netherlands, on the border with Germany. Tickets are just 10 euros. We'll show our latest prototypes and designs for the final device.

hackfest.nl
@hackfestnl.hsnl.social.ap.brid.gy

This year, back again at HackFest 2025: Firefly Zero!

They were here last year and are returning with lots of improvements and new prototypes to show.

Firefly Zero is a modern open-source handheld game console with effortless multiplayer. It’s fun to play alone […]

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New release! Games now can render QR codes. Woop-woop! Also, we made a lot of progress on the device perfromance. It now has zero lag!

Breaking change: render_line callback is gone.

github.com/firefly-zero...

New release! We've got lots of improvements to the #multiplayer: better stability, ability to restart and exit apps, better UI.

Emulator binaries:
github.com/firefly-zero...

The multiplayer UI is now a separate app:
catalog.fireflyzero.com/sys.connector

⚡️ You can now write games for Firefly Zero in #Zig! Zig is a quirky little language with manual memory management. Safer than C, easier than Rust.

$ firefly_cli new --lang=zig hello-world

Getting started:
docs.fireflyzero.com/dev/getting-...

SDK source code:
github.com/firefly-zero...

The first day of #FOSDEM was a blast! If you are at the conference, today is your second chance to meet us and try the first prototypes.

It's almost #FOSDEM time! Here is how to find us:

* Stand: building K, level 1.
* Talk about Firefly Zero: #WebAssembly devroom (K.4.601), Sunday, 11:30.
* Also, check out the talk "Playing games without a computer" by Daniel Esteban in #golang devroom (UD2.120) on Saturday, 16:30.

Time for coding fun during the holidays, so I made TinyRogue, a framework for roguelike games using @tinygo.org on @fireflyzero.bsky.social using #wasm

github.com/deadprogram/...

#golang #tinygo #webassembly #games

New release! Meet "stash", a special binary file available between game runs and on all devices in multiplayer. It opens a whole world of possibilities for multiplayer games.

Docs:
docs.fireflyzero.com/dev/net/#-ha...

Emulator binaries:
github.com/firefly-zero...

We’re making a cool game console and we need you to make cool games for it.

blog.fireflyzero.com/pages/call-f...

#GameDev #FireflyZero #Go #Rust #Clang #RetroGaming #FOSDEM

You can now write games for Firefly Zero in #C or #Cpp!

C is a language with a huge #gamedev ecosystem. It has lots of famous retro games (like DOOM), emulators for retro game consoles, and interpretes for languages like Lua. And all of that now can be ported to Firefly Zero! Surprise us.

Now, bootstrapping your first app in any language supported by Firefly Zero is just one command:

$ firefly_cli new --lang=rust hello-world

docs.fireflyzero.com/dev/getting-...

Oh, and we're now working on SDKs for a few more languages. The first one will be announced very-very soon. Stay tuned ;)

New release! Firefly now natively supports scoreboards and achievements. When you play with your friends over network, devices will automatically exchange your top scores so that you can settle who's the best 😉

Docs:
docs.fireflyzero.com/dev/stats/

We'll have a stand at FOSDEM!
FOSDEM is an annual free conference about open source. It's in Brussels (Belgium), on 1 and 2 February 2025 (weekends).
Come say hi, try out our prototypes, play some games, and grab merch. It will be fun!

fosdem.org/2025/news/20...

#fosdem #fosdem2025 #fosdem25

Hello World! Firefly Zero is an in-development handheld game console that runs #wasm and supports same-room multiplayer. It is written in #Rust, runs on #ESP32, and will be fully open-source. We already have a working desktop emulator and Rust and Go SDKs. Sounds fun? Stay tuned!

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