Modern electronic casual games are solely played online or on video-game consoles. They all center around a screen and lack the social and physical factor of traditional board games. The prototype “Fireflies” tries to celebrate a marriage between those two worlds and provide a casual game that is played in a real-world environment (like an office surrounding), makes use of modern technology while still advocating social interaction among players.

The foundation of the game is the open- source electronics prototyping platform Arduino, since it provides flexible and easy- to-use hardware and software.