Below are different terms that the documentation uses. If there is a technical word in the ocumentation that you don’t understand, it should be in there. If it’s not, send us a pull request or open an issue!
- Asset is a file that an app needs but which isn’t the code. It includes sprites, music, sounds, sometimes dialogs and configurations, etc.
- Frame is what is show on the screen at one specific moment. Each frame is a rectangle of 240 per 160 pixels.
- ROM is a distribution of your game. It includes a WebAssembly binary, game assets, metadata, signature, etc. A ROM is distributed in a ZIP (
*.zip) file and on the device is stored as a collection of files in a directory in/roms/. - TOML is a configuration format that we use for the
firefly.tomlconfig. It’s stricter than YAML and more readable than JSON. If you’ve seen INI (*.ini) files in WIndows games, TOML should look very familiar. - WebAssembly (aka wasm) is a binary format in which all Firefly apps compile. It’s like EXE (
*.exe) on Windows.