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Mario von Rickenbach @mariov.ch · 18/09/2026

🦵🙂🦵 experiments.mariov.ch/draw/bounce/

Mario von Rickenbach @mariov.ch · 10/09/2026

sound would be the next thing. the tool already supports the core of it (loading and playing audio files), but needs some improvements to be quick and useful and fun

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Mario von Rickenbach @mariov.ch · 10/09/2026

finally i have my little tool to draw an interactive scene like that in 30 min. this one was made on a computer, but most of them are made on a phone directly

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Mario von Rickenbach @mariov.ch · 10/09/2026

bird 🦜 play here: experiments.mariov.ch/draw/bird

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Mario von Rickenbach @mariov.ch · 09/09/2026

new apple just dropped experiments.mariov.ch/draw/apple/

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Mario von Rickenbach @mariov.ch · 08/09/2026

Try it here. Can you juggle? experiments.mariov.ch/draw/football/ 🦵⚽️

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Molleindustria FUTURE? NO THANKS! OUT NOW @molleindustria.org · 04/09/2026

Future? No Thanks! IS OUT NOW ON STEAM An open-world comedy adventure about workable utopias, the twilight of patriarchy, revolution, and the horrifying possibility that the younger generations might be right. 💀 Windows + Mac 💀 6+ hours of gameplay 💀 20% off at launch futurenothanks.com

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Mario von Rickenbach @mariov.ch · 04/09/2026

of course any image converter will just remove that data when reencoding

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Mario von Rickenbach @mariov.ch · 04/09/2026

you can put any data in a png chunk, it just gets ignored by a normal app if it doesn‘t know what it is.

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Mario von Rickenbach @mariov.ch · 04/09/2026

new format: interactive png (IPNG)

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Mario von Rickenbach @mariov.ch · 04/09/2026

I'm at the point where I'm embedding a full interactive scene including some scene specific js code in a png, so i can drop a png in the browser and it runs my scene.. what could go wrong

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Mario von Rickenbach @mariov.ch · 02/09/2026

Our pointer webtoy from almost 10 years ago is now on the cover of this new book! Critical Web Design by xtine burrough and Owen Mundy, published by MIT press: mitpress.mit.edu/978026205316... criticalwebdesign.github.io/wiki/ criticalwebdesign.github.io/index/ Pointer: pointer.playables.net

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Mario von Rickenbach @mariov.ch · 01/09/2026

my new exercise: soft collisions

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Mario von Rickenbach @mariov.ch · 29/08/2026

prototyping a little app for creating interactive drawings. how should i call it?

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Mario von Rickenbach @mariov.ch · 28/08/2026

At Gamescom? Check out the @amazefest.bsky.social Digital Playground. You‘ll find this beautiful Pocket Boss installation (huge thanks to Sebastiaan and team for making it happen!) and many other great games.

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Mario von Rickenbach @mariov.ch · 01/07/2026

Pocket Boss installation. Employee of the day @michaelfrei.io is hard at work.

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Mario von Rickenbach @mariov.ch · 30/06/2026

We just released it on Steam a few days ago (remastered & extended)

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George Batchelor @georgebatch.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

peak collection

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Adriaan @adriaan.games · 30/06/2026

all classics, all should be in your possession

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Michael Frei 🪰 @michaelfrei.io · 29/06/2026

Buy game. Is cheap now. Good value. Worth. Time. store.steampowered.com/app/2000120/...

store.steampowered.com

Save 50% on Time Flies on Steam

Time Flies is a little adventure about our limited time in this world.

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Playables @playables.net · 30/06/2026

ENTIRE Playables Collection. $20. Cheap. Buy now! store.steampowered.com/bundle/60739...

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Mario von Rickenbach @mariov.ch · 26/06/2026

Want to play with 50 friends? Now you can! The new Rakete local co-op mode supports unlimited* players. Get it here: store.steampowered.com/app/3814090/... *The number of players is limited by the number of buttons you have available.

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Mario von Rickenbach @mariov.ch · 24/06/2026

Rakete is out now on Steam! Every button is a thruster, the rest is physics. The 2012 game remastered, now with 60 levels plus local co-op where any* number of friends share one rocket. 🚀 store.steampowered.com/app/3814090/... *as many as you have buttons

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Mario von Rickenbach @mariov.ch · 22/06/2026

"Pocket Boss is cleverly paired with a real treadmill. It immediately captivated the majority of the children’s jury members and continued to occupy their minds long after the decision-making process had ended.  An arrangement that works so well that it becomes addictive [...]"

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Mario von Rickenbach @mariov.ch · 22/06/2026

Pocket Boss also received the Kids award at last week's Swiss Design Awards Exhibition! The best of all awards, thank you so much! 🫶

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Mario von Rickenbach @mariov.ch · 16/06/2026

The Swiss Design Awards exhibition is running until the end of this week in Basel. Play Pocket Boss in a brand new setup resembling a very productive home office environment. More info: swissdesignawards.ch/en/about Thanks everyone who did some real work there yesterday at the opening! 📈

exhibition setup with a treadmill, a table with phone, and a screen

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Mario von Rickenbach @mariov.ch · 16/06/2026

I'm very grateful to have received a Swiss Design Award for Pocket Boss yesterday! It's really nice to see a game recognized in this environment. www.schweizerkulturpreise.ch/en/schweizer...

banner of "Swiss Art+Design Awards" outside a building

Photo of a book with a page of screenshots of Pocket Boss, a game showing data visualizations

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Ricky Haggett @rickyhaggett.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

All ready for campsite holiday next week, with my lovely little Thinkpad which runs linux and doesn't have a gpu:

screenshot of my desktop with 4 Steam icons for games I wanna play: Wax Heads, Pocket Boss, Phonopolis and Miniatures. (I actually played most of Miniatures already: it's ace).

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Michel Ziegler @dasmirts.bsky.social · 23/03/2026

SURVIVAL HORROR IN THE ALPS FFS! No AI slop in my game... For your consideration: Mundaun - a lovingly hand-pencilled horror tale. It's at 93% positive on Steam. It's on a steep sale right now. All human made. Sound. Voice acting in a language I don't even speak! BUY IT -> SUPPORT HUMAN (me)

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Mario von Rickenbach @mariov.ch · 05/01/2026

Made a little (de-)glitch toy with quadtrees: Quadraw: experiments.mariov.ch/quadraw/

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Patrick @vectorpark.com · 26/12/2025

And I am awed & delighted by Pocket Boss (pocketboss.ch), also from Playables. So much wit and care packed into this. Every "puzzle" is a finely-crafted joke, and one in particular made me blush when I realized what was I doing.

pocketboss.ch

Pocket Boss

Who says that work and play don’t mix? Not us! Play Pocket Boss, the game where you handle lots of fun data and one not-so-fun boss.

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Santa Ragione @santaragione.com · 25/11/2025

Our upcoming game HORSES was preemptively banned from Steam, with no path to appeal. The game will still launch next week on December 2nd and will be available on EGS, GOG, Humble, and Itch for $4.99. Here is a detailed FAQ covering what happened: horses.wtf/BannedFromSt...

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Naomi Clark (@metasynthie) 暗悪直美 @halfrobot.com · 11/11/2025

6-year-old: I want to play that kids game with the people again. Me: ...with people? What were they doing? 6-year-old: You... click the little white people to complete things! Me: ...complete things? That's lots of games... 6-year-old: NO!! THEY JUMP IN HOLES! Me: Ohhhh, you want the game KIDS!

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Playables @playables.net · 11/11/2025

Get fit for cheap! My Exercise is now on sale in the Steam Animal Fest. store.steampowered.com/app/1004330/...

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Museum of Digital Art @handle.invalid · 09/11/2025

What a wonderful night we had last night! Thanks @futureofmaterials.bsky.social @mariov.ch @michaelfrei.io and #OscilloscopeMusic for this wonderful send off for our @dirkkoy.bsky.social exhibition in #Bellinzona <3

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Museum of Digital Art @handle.invalid · 06/11/2025

Also this Saturday at the @dirkkoy.bsky.social finissage: the wonderful @mariov.ch will give a keynote about the development of his newly released game #PocketBoss! Expect nerdy takes in how to manipulate your bosses digits. More at muda.co/events

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Mario von Rickenbach @mariov.ch · 01/11/2025

they just appeared out of nowhere!

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Mario von Rickenbach @mariov.ch · 31/10/2025

20 min from idea to execution, new record

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Mario von Rickenbach @mariov.ch · 31/10/2025

New from the makers of KIDS & CARS: EGGS

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Mario von Rickenbach @mariov.ch · 27/10/2025

haha, i found a video of plug & play with 100M views. how is that even possible. no idea what he's doing there... just plugging in and out?? www.youtube.com/watch?v=G0Dt...

youtube.com

KISAH PERSELINGKUHAN ANTARA COLOKAN ( Plug and Play ) #bokuregi #shorts

YouTube video by BokuRegi

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Mario von Rickenbach @mariov.ch · 27/10/2025

I'm pretty sure that some time ago, all the apps were silenced with the switch, and only recently some apps started to ignore it. I noticed it because I *never* want to play audio through the speaker except I'm actively switching it on, so now my speaker volume is always set to 0 to be sure...

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