Modern (game) software development often feels like a battle against complexity, bloated dependencies, massive clusters, and endless build pipelines. Solution? Develop for a machine that doesn't exist!

Enter Fantasy Game Consoles. Projects like TIC-80, PICO-8, and WASM-4 provide a deliberate return to "low-level" constraints: fixed resolutions, limited palettes, and tiny memory footprints. In this lightning talk, we will explore why these virtual machines are more than just retro-nostalgia. And we will start at its roots in the 90s with NINTENDO GameBoy and it's hardware capabilities.

Come to my session to sharpen your coding skills, find a "digital sandbox" to escape burnout, or just listen to fascinating stories about the fantasy game consoles community.