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Hafiz Azman

@fizzd.bsky.social
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🇲🇾 I used to be @7thbeat on twitter. Making rhythm games like Rhythm Doctor and A Dance of Fire and Ice at 7th Beat Games. Games and posts and stuff: fizzd.me

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Hafiz Azman @fizzd.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
Rhythm Heaven was the series that originally made me even be a game developer, thank you Osawa and Tsunku and team.. im so glad they all still got it (also whoever Youngseok in Top Gear is, they are hilarious)
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Hafiz Azman @fizzd.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
The bird talking to me while im tryna jump. Its so funny. Also i cant get enough of how the sounds of the jump and landing and cues all fit together with the music
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Hafiz Azman @fizzd.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
Favourite minigame Skateboarding 2, and favourite remix Remix 9. Those double catches and the cue for it aaaahhhh. Also the miss sound for the bug catching make me laugh. Always peak sfx
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Hafiz Azman @fizzd.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
Been absolutely in love with Rhythm Heaven Groove over the past two weeks... i still cant believe it's actually finally here !!!
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Hafiz Azman @fizzd.bsky.social · 06/04/2026
And US-Israel continues to bomb Iran and drone strike Palestine today, try opening the live news page at any time to see more kids dead and teenagers shot. Free Palestine and stop the US attacking Iran www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblo...
screenshot from https://www.theguardian.com/news/2026/mar/26/ai-got-the-blame-for-the-iran-school-bombing-the-truth-is-far-more-worrying
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Hafiz Azman @fizzd.bsky.social · 06/04/2026
My mom co-organized a series of first-hand interviews with Palestinians done in Gaza after October 2023. It got published by Haymarket last year: www.goodreads.com/book/show/22...
Displaced In Gaza bookExcerpts from the book. “Haitham left before noon. I went out searching for him and found him lying on the ground being eaten by cats. I couldn’t bury him on the first day of his martyrdom due to Israeli shelling.” “Wherever we go, we are pursued by shelling.” “The day I return to my house and the day I visit my husband’s grave will be the best days of my life.” “We want to return to our homes and live on the ruins of our destroyed houses.” “We line up in long queues to enter bathrooms with no water.” “We couldn’t find enough space in the cemetery to bury my mother, so we dug up my grandmother’s grave and buried my mother in the same grave.” “Under normal circumstances, my family’s daily water requirement is about 20 liters per person. Today, I share 20 liters of water among 23 family members.” “Quadcopter drones roamed inside the school and fired at anyone moving.” [Given that quadcopters are triggered by motion and sound, imagine trying to keep your baby quiet said one father, who saw a quadcopter kill a dog on the street outside his apartment building.] “Since the martyrdom of my family…” “We suffer from many harmful insects and other animals in and around the tents, including scorpions, snakes, flies, and mosquitos.”
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Hafiz Azman @fizzd.bsky.social · 23/03/2026
Cairn teaches me about the kinds of game design im not experienced with, of long term risks and rewards. In Celeste you collect strawberry for fun as an extra challenge, in Cairn you see a backpack with a honey dipper in a difficult detour, and you want it because
Screenshot of the game 'Cairn' with a honey dipper item in a backpack on the top of a cave
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Hafiz Azman @fizzd.bsky.social · 22/02/2026
Rolled credits on @tempolab.games's Bits and Bops, lovely game!! Music/gameplay my favs are the fireworks one and Ocean Mixtape 🥰. All the visuals and designs are so good (the ant one is sooo charming!!). And they are masters at understated puns
Level select screen showing all levels complete (took turns with my wife)
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Hafiz Azman @fizzd.bsky.social · 22/02/2026
Been playing through with my wife and the first time this happened she was so mad at losing like 30mins of progress 😭 (but she got back there so much quicker the second time hehe) totally didnt expect to be able to fall after the QTE, brutal!
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Hafiz Azman @fizzd.bsky.social · 17/11/2025
Shuhei still made time to chat about games and its so exciting to hear what he is working on next! And he gave my wife and I some Raindrop Sprinters merch and traditional konpeitō 😢 The shop, Rokujyuan Shimizu, here in Kyoto is the only place in Japan that still makes konpeitō entirely by hand
A box of konpeito, and raindrop sprinters keychains
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Hafiz Azman @fizzd.bsky.social · 17/11/2025
Yukiko Utanikki's set was beautiful, see her IG on www.instagram.com/yukiko_utani...
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Hafiz Azman @fizzd.bsky.social · 17/11/2025
I was so lucky to visit @909works.net's cafe in Kyoto a few days ago and meet him! Shuhei is the warmest person. There was a music festival at his cafe so he was busy running the service, making drinks. We got to sit and enjoy some performances and drinks after our long travels
Shuhei and me in front of his cafeThe counter in Salon Junpei, the cafeThe cafe in a heritage Kyoto building
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Hafiz Azman @fizzd.bsky.social · 24/10/2025
Sorry for the late reply, yes that is true and we manually interpolate by referring to Time.unscaledTimeAsDouble if the dspTime hasn't changed since the last frame
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Hafiz Azman @fizzd.bsky.social · 10/10/2025
just in case anyone still hasn't heard of the MILLION-download 4.8⭐ FREE NO ADS only 100MB very charming endless runner Chiki's Chase!!!! Also I get entertainment every time i look at the reviews!
Great game, but it could use a TWIST:
what I mean by twist is that I have a few ideas that you will either live or hate: one, maybe add a few bosses to each biome! And if you beat all bosses then it gives you a mysterious hint of some other world and as soon as I you enter another run, the entire screen shakes VIOLENTLY, as chiki looks confused and worried. After getting to the third shop and leave the ground shakes again and a roar is heard, suddenly the ground opens beneath chiki! Then the screen turns black, then chiki wakes up in a dimly lit area and hears another roar. Chiki continues on as more roars are heard more and more frequently as they get louder. Then chiki runs to a stop, as something GODLIKE falls from the sky, roars and the fight begins. You can decide the things attacks, when the thing is almost dead it refills it's HP. Try as you might, you can't leave a scratch on it. Then when you are almost dead, something falls from the sky! It's chikis friends! Together, they fuse all their attacks into one and destroy the thing! Then everything goes back to normal and chiki continues on fighting the normal bosses and getting home. When you open the main menu, a new thing pops up! And when used, it blasts the whole screen in a rainbow color but has a long cooldown. That about wraps up my idea and let me know what you think!

Developer Response
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Cool idea, wish I had lots more money and time to do something like that!
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Hafiz Azman @fizzd.bsky.social · 26/09/2025
hahaha yes, someone ('squidgd') made this yesterday and i have never felt older
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Hafiz Azman @fizzd.bsky.social · 09/09/2025
this screenshot from the article...
screenshot of the linked game, showing some choices UI over a princess about to stab the player from a first person POV
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Hafiz Azman @fizzd.bsky.social · 08/09/2025
Öoo is now an example of all of this at once.... you dont need flashy visuals to sell, pixel art [OR PUZZLE PLATFORMERS] is not outdated, and you dont have to explore a concept to its fullest
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Hafiz Azman @fizzd.bsky.social · 08/09/2025
its been a while since i finished a game, but i'm really glad i took the time to play Öoo. I knew it would be incredible since Elechead was too, but i didnt expect it to be incredible in this particular way Some time ago i saw an interview from NamaTakahashi
──先ほど『Downwell』の名前があがりましたが、ほかに影響を受けた作品はありますか?

自分の常識を打ち破るようなインディーゲーム作品に、かなりインスピレーションを受けています。例えば、アクションゲーム『VVVVVV』やパズルゲームの『Baba Is You』は見た目がリッチじゃなきゃ売れない、面白くならないという常識を、2Dアクションアドベンチャーの『HyperLightDrifter』はドット絵は古いという常識を打ち破ってくれました。また、カナダのPolytron Corporationが開発した視点の切り替えが特徴的なアクションゲーム『FEZ』も、コンセプトを生かさなければならないという固定観念を取り払ってくれました。──Earlier you mentioned Downwell. Are there any other games that influenced you?

I'm heavily inspired by indie games that shatter conventional wisdom. For example, the action game VVVVVV and the puzzle game Baba Is You shattered the notion that games need flashy visuals to sell or be fun. The 2D action-adventure HyperLight Drifter shattered the notion that pixel art is outdated. Also, the action game ‘FEZ’ developed by Canada's Polytron Corporation, with its signature perspective-switching mechanic, freed me from the fixed notion that a concept must be exploited to its fullest.

Translated with DeepL.com (free version)
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Hafiz Azman @fizzd.bsky.social · 08/06/2025
Two pieces of advice i saved (1. dont remember source vid, quoting bryan eno, 2. sakurai)
Note to the artist: when the medium fails conspicuously, and
especially if it fails in new ways, the listener believes something
is happening beyond its limits.The longer you let it sit, the less fresh it'll be.
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Hafiz Azman @fizzd.bsky.social · 13/05/2025
At the second-last chapter now and having fun with light rays-making-platforms type mechanics. you set up a light in the middle of a room and you can then jump around the outside. like a 3D version of Closure. many of these feel exactly like indie platformer mechanics
light rays forming platforms through the windows of a circular room
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Hafiz Azman @fizzd.bsky.social · 12/05/2025
Checking the wiki for the new Marvel movie's plot and cheering
Plot: In Malaysia,
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Hafiz Azman @fizzd.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
In light of BDS calling for an Xbox boycott recently, here's a report from February summarising Microsoft's (and OpenAI too) involvement with the IDF. It's a well-written piece, please check it out: apnews.com/article/isra...
Microsoft has been OpenAI’s largest investor. OpenAI said it does not have a partnership with Israel’s military, and its usage policies say its customers should not use its products to develop weapons, destroy property or harm people. About a year ago, however, OpenAI changed its terms of use from barring military use to allowing for “national security use cases that align with our mission.”
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Hafiz Azman @fizzd.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
I once discovered by accident that the Windows alert sound fit really well in this Glass Beams song. Please listen to my performance of triggering the UAC admin control popup along to the song by using my wifi-fixing AutoHotKey macro, thanks www.youtube.com/watch?v=E4X5...
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Hafiz Azman @fizzd.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
Long shot but does anyone know any games that have been localized in Malay (not Indonesian), or any Malay localizers? I have questions of using the term 'upgrade' vs 'peningkatan' etc since the latter sounds strange to me - but maybe people who use their OSes in Malay are used to that already
pictures of video games Krisis Dino and Kubu Iblis 3 - the Malay translations of some video games.
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Hafiz Azman @fizzd.bsky.social · 27/01/2025
I wrote this rhythm game tutorial 10 years ago but it still helps people the most out of everything I've done. So I finally set up my own website to store it! fizzd.me/posts/how-to...
Excerpt of the linked blog post about making rhythm games.
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Hafiz Azman @fizzd.bsky.social · 17/01/2025
two brilliant 3-shape designs
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Hafiz Azman @fizzd.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
Hello everyone! I design game Rhythm Doctor and ADOFAI. Maybe intro post later but for now I just want to share my fav Disco Elysium screenshots. "An *angry* statue" still makes me laugh. I need to replay this game
Thus the so-called *tournée* becomes a competition between increasingly meaningless brand signifiers: your discount laundry detergent racing against a pack of Astra cigarettes or even a Frittte..."I really should have killed myself. Maybe I still will one of these days."	Man with Sunglasses - "You look like shit." Your ruffled face reflects in the man's sunglasses.
	Man with Sunglasses - "And I don't mean that as a metaphor."
Okay, so this guy is cool -- he stands there like a statue. An *angry* statue. And he does *not* like you.You close your eyes and hear the dogs bark. A lone woman sits by a factory window, dreaming of meteorite strikes. On Rue Saint-Gérôme a square bullet slides into a square-shaped chamber. In Old South a man without eyelids smiles. Spring has come. It's time.
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