Royale: A Casio AE-1200-a-like written in Zig

It's finally out! This watch face is my first time developing for the Pebble (or any embedded system for that matter), and went from concept to product in 12 days for the Pebble Spring 2026 Developer Contest. It's written entirely in the Zig programming language, which was a joy to work with except when the Pebble SDK gave me trouble. It features no AI code. All the bad code came straight from my own brain.

https://apps.repebble.com/ae80da4fd2d54efc9e907b11

I would appreciate it if y'all gave it a like on the Pebble app store! I don't actually own a Pebble Time 2, which is the watch I'm developing for, so every like increases the odds that I win a free watch. Then I'll have something to actually test on, which would be nice!

Anyways there's not really much else to say here. It's just an announcement post. If you're interested in the story behind it, I have "liveblogged" it on the rebble discord, although I don't think the story is super interesting. Mostly a series of ping ponging between "wow it works I'm a genius" and "wow this doesn't work I'm stupid".