Great roundup of 7 games made with variables and advanced prototyping. Quite impressive to see how far designers have pushed new features just a week after they were announced.

Vijay is building a game using variables with new advanced prototyping features and explains how it works along the way.

Double Glitch made the Space Invaders game and turned Figma into a game engine.

Realistic typing is finally possible in Figma prototypes using variables.

Anthony DiSpezio shares a community file and a quick tutorial for creating a cute blooming flower effect.

While Will was working on Figma-OS, Willy Wu from Figma was also building his own version with a Figma plugin to help compile small C programs using ELVM. Don’t miss a thread on his journey.

Occasionally someone builds something in Figma that just melts my brain: ​“Figma-OS is the first Turing-complete 8‑bit computer built using Figma prototyping tools. Figma-OS has state-of-the-art specs with 512 bits of RAM, 16 bytes program memory, 10 Hz clock speed, and a MISC instruction set of 16 OPCODEs.” See the thread from Will DePue on how it works.

Vijay Verma won’t miss a chance to build something fun with a new Figma feature. Here, he made a fun personalized avatars constructor using different combinations of components and variables.

And here is a fully functional stopwatch demo as well.

Miguel Solorio already built a simple, functioning calculator with advanced prototypes and variables.

One of the fun test files that Figma engineer Willy Wu used for testing advanced prototyping. ​“With stuff like this, we’re entering Turing-complete territory… it’s only a matter of time before someone gets Doom running in Figma!”

A fully working version of Flappy Bird made with physics-based movement, pseudo-randomized pipe placement, and scoring. Made by Dave Williames using 46 variables.

An in-depth session with Designer Advocate Miggi, Software Engineer Ricky Rajani, and PM Garrett Miller on how to build even higher fidelity prototypes with less complexity.

Starting point for the new advanced prototyping in help articles.

Software Engineer Jon Kaplan, Product Designers Nikolas Klein and Chia Amisola, and Prototyping Product Manager Garrett Miller talk about the newly announced advanced prototyping features.

See how variables, conditional logic, and expressions can let you build more realistic prototypes with fewer frames and connections. Available on Professional plan and up. ​“Prior to variables, prototypes that have changing states e.g. adding items to cart, required duplicating frames and connections to mimic those flows. Now, you can set and modify variable values with prototyping actions to create dynamic prototypes with as little as a single frame and couple of interactions!”

A short video tutorial on building advanced prototypes with variables and two new prototyping actions: Set Variables and Conditional.

Dylan’s recap of all the updates from the keynote, in a brand-new blog. ​“Our vision is to build a new kind of design tool — one that is designed for the entire product development team. Today’s launches reimagine how design and development come together in Figma. I’m excited to introduce three ways we’re doing this: making developers feel at home in Figma with Dev Mode, connecting design to the language of code with variables, and putting a step in between a 2D design and a shipped product with advanced prototyping.”

If you have time for only one thing this week, this should be it. First, Figma CEO Dylan Field introduces new features — variables, auto layout updates, and advanced prototyping. Then, CTO Kris Rasmussen talks about rethinking product building from the ground up and how the new Dev Mode is bringing design and engineering closer together. In the end, Dylan talks about file browser refresh, font previews, and what AI could look like in Figma — wrapping things up by announcing the acquisition of Diagram.

I watched every Config keynote over the years, and this year’s announcements were the most anticipated and ambitious ever. It’s incredible to see how Figma is growing in depth and breadth at the same time, now providing incredibly advanced tools while covering an entire product-building process from brainstorming to design to development. Exciting time to be a maker.

Double Glitch pushes Figma’s prototyping limits with this cool mouse tracking effect.